Guess what my grandmother sent me? A DONUT MAKER!
I’m so happy about it. It gives me the possibility to produce mini dounuts on my own without frying them :).
I unwrapped the package in the evening and the next day, I made about fifty cute and super delicious donuts. Mini-donuts, actually. I found the recipe in the instructions of the gadget – I know, not very creative – but it turned out to be a very good one. I can’t wait to try out variations.
Check this out.
Mini Dounuts
(makes about 50 donuts)
260g (2 cups + 2 tbsp) flour
130g (½ cup + 1 tbsp) sugar
1 pkt vanilla sugar
150 ml (½ cup + 3 tbsp) milk
100 ml (½ cup – 2 tbsp) heavy cream
3 eggs
3 tbsp corn oil
1 pck (3 tsp) baking powder
powdered sugar, for dusting
Preparing this dough is really easy: Put all the ingredients into a large bowl. Stir with a stand or a handheld mixer, until the batter is smooth. Preheat your donut maker.
Fill in about 1 tbsp of the dough into each mould and bake with the lid closed for about 3 minutes.
Dust the with powdered sugar… and eat :)
I was at my uncle’s two weeks ago. It was my cousin’s birthday that weekend so I brought the project for a special birthday cake with me. You must know, that my cousin, who turned 7, LOVES Star Wars, which I considered to be the topic of the cake. Luckily, he is not the only boy freaking out about that story so I found a lot of ideas on the internet. I decided to make a yoda cake.
The following pictures show the creating process and the result of our work.
First we prepared the dough for the cake. I chose a pound cake recipe and multiplied the volume with 1,5.
Yeah, that’s the way it looked when everything was combined. Until now, this still-six-year-old was allowed to help.
Mhh, delicious dough. Wait until it is done baking.
After taking the cake out of the oven, I continued decorating the cake with my older cousin to prepare a surprise for his little brother.
So we covered the cake in buttercream and put some structure basics out of fondant on top.
Then we covered it with a sheet of green fondant and added details with a knife. Anything still missing? Ah yes, the eyes. :)
Here they are.
Done. Yodas head on a silver plate.
Yummy!
Some people hate nuts. Some people detest coconut. Mostly those who do not like nuts, do not like coconut, either. And on the other hand those, who like coconut love nuts, as well. Why this? I have no idea, coconuts are not real nuts, actually. They are fruit indeed. But some people I know, do not like coconut in general, but they love bounty bars.
Humans are confusing.
When I noticed this after talks to my friends about their eating habits, I knew that homemade bounty bars would have fans. Yippie :)
I found a very VERY easy recipe on „Lick the Spoon“ http://lickthatspoon.blogspot.de/ .
Five ingredients, one success. Just try it out.
Homemade Bounty
3 cups (700 ml) dessicated coconut
½ tin (about ½ cup or 200 g) sweetened condensed milk
60 – 85 g (1/2-3/4 cup) powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla essence
350g (13 oz) dark chocolate, melted
Combine the coconut and condensed milk in a bowl. (I did this with my hands as I didn’t want to spread coconut all over the kitchen with my handheld mixer.) Add powdered sugar, until the mixture is stiff and less sticky. Combine with the vanilla.
Form 24 to 30 bars with your hands. Let them chill in the freezer for at least 45 minutes.
Cover with melted chocolate and serve when hardened.
Couldn’t be easier, right?
