Caramel-stuffed doughnuts | New Idea

Ingredients

• Doughnuts
• 2 packages active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup warm water
• 3/4 cup warm full-cream milk
• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar, plus more for rolling the doughnuts in
• 1 egg yolk + 1 egg, at room temperature
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 and 3/4 cups plain flour
• 2 cups vegetable oil, for frying
• Caramel
• 1 tbspn butter
• 2 tbspn brown sugar
• 1/2 cup thick cream