Sufganiyot

Follow up a traditional late lunch menu with an equally classic dessert. Start by filling bowls with gelt, the chocolate candy coins consumed on and around Hanukkah.

Next, invite guests to join you in the kitchen to help finish a batch of sufganiyot. Prepare the dough before the party. Allow different people to deep fry the doughnuts while others coat with sugar or fill with jelly. Discuss the importance of the long-lasting temple oil in the celebration of Hanukkah while you are at it!

For the recipe to this tasty dessert, read more

I've only made donuts once before, but I stumbled across this recipe for Israeli Hanukkah Jelly Doughnuts (aka Sufganiyot) and it looks like I might just have to try again. These tasty looking doughnuts are traditionally consumed in the weeks before and during Hanukkah. Originally
two rounds of dough with jam sandwiched in between, it has been updated to have the jelly injected afterwards. The oil they're fried in commemorates the miracle associated with Temple oil.

If you're looking for a new Hanukkah recipe, want to be exposed to new cultures or just downright love jelly doughnuts, then be sure to give this recipe a try. read more