What do you do when you’re watching a tense election and have nervous energy to burn? Make old fashioned mini glazed yeast doughnuts! I can’t think of a time when I’m not in the mood for doughnuts. They're quietly becoming their own food group for me. Since I making doughnuts occurred spontaneously while watching the election, I wasn’t going to spend time researching ...
Donuts | Pastries
Pumpkin Doughnuts
It’s officially pumpkin season in my house! While I’ve never been a huge pumpkin fan in the past, I’ve come to embrace it and couldn't wait to make these pumpkin doughnuts for Miles. I've never met a kid so into pumpkin. For me, I think my pumpkin love stops at sweets. Mainly breakfast sweets. I’m still slow to embrace pumpkin lattes and savory pumpkin dishes, but you never ...
Bing Cherry Doughnuts
My recipe for bing cherry doughnuts was completely inspired by the 7-11 slurpee doughnut that debuted about a month ago. It looked so pretty and pink and reminded me of the strawberry doughnuts I ate as a child. I’ve decided to create my own version. I course debated for a while over where or not to add food coloring to the dough. I started out with a few drops of cherry ...
Pistachio Mini Doughnuts with Vanilla Glaze
I was recently contacted to develop a recipe for a pistachio company. How exciting! It’s a new up and coming company called Hellas Farms. They’ve produced a naturally sundried Greek pistachio that is slow roasted with a touch of sea salt. I’m always up for a challenge and I like working with people and companies like myself that are up and coming. But what should I ...
Quick Small Batch Cinnamon Rolls
The other day I was in the mood for something sweet. Actually I was in the mood for cinnamon rolls, but didn’t want to go through the hassle of making them. Until I looked in the fridge and saw half a loaf of frozen bread dough. I wanted to make something that I could serve individually where I could freeze them and Miles could eat them throughout the school week for breakfast if he wanted to. So ...
Donut Waffles
I’m still trying to get donuts out of my system. Over the past few weeks, I’ve baked and fried them, but I needed to try to make them another way. I decided to waffle them. Yup, I made donut waffles. I wasn’t sure whether or not to use a cake based recipe or a yeast based, but the recipe I found took all the guess work out of the process. This is basically a cake based recipe, but with the ...
