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| The doughnuts mould |
About a week ago I saw a recipe for chocolate baked
doughnuts somewhere, I have since completely forgotten where I got this recipe
and have started to believe that I dreamt it... Anyway, before I realised that
this recipe was lost in the ether of my mind/bedroom I made a little trip to
Bluewater with my mum and brother. As I had this baked doughnut recipe in my
head (I had become obsessed with it) I felt compelled to buy a mini doughnuts mould from Lakeland. At £5.49 I thought that I could use this as an experiment to decide whether it is worth baking doughnuts.
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| Mini doughnuts with icing sugar (so cute!) |
I am a lover of all things sticky and sweet so doughnuts are
pretty high up in my estimates, yet they have to be good! No one is going to
get away with trying to palm me off with cheap Morrisons doughnuts!
I’m a Krispy Kreme
fan, but their calorie content rather puts me off having them too often! Baked
doughnuts are promoted (at least by Lakeland’s website) as a healthier
alternative to usual doughnut which is deep fried, yet surely if you eat too
many (and cover them in sugar) could it really be that good for you? I wasn’t really thinking about
my waistline when I thought of making these doughnuts anyway!
I mentioned earlier that I’d lost that chocolate doughnuts
recipe and alas I didn’t find it, but after a bit of searching I found that Lakeland
have a recipe themselves! So I thought I’d follow that! You can find it here.
Note that the recipe is for full size doughnuts rather than the mini doughnuts
which the mould makes (so don’t go doubling the recipe unless you also want to
end up making 50 mini doughnuts...).
The recipe is really easy to follow and makes a reasonably
runny batter, (which will go all over your kitchen if
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| Runny mixture! |
I followed the recipe to the letter (which I don’t usually
do) and ended up with really lovely little doughnuts. My dad and brother were
eating the warm ones while I was still trying to take them out of the oven! The
recipe recommends that you roll them around in sugar but I sprinkled mine with
icing sugar and iced a few to look like what I’d call "Homer Simpson
Doughnuts".
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| Homer Simpson style |
They were tasty and the size is great as it’s a bite of
doughnut, brilliant finger food! My mum said that she thought fried doughnuts
still have the edge and I’d have to agree, these are more cakey than doughy but
they’re still a lot of fun. I’d definitely recommend the mould, I’m guessing
kids would love these too!
My mum thought they could make great mini rum babas, which sounds
like a brilliant idea! I’ll keep you posted on that one!
Vicki xxx
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