Baked mini cinnamon doughnuts

These doughnuts are sooooooo tasty, you'll want just one more. 

Finding a good baked doughnuts recipe has taken me ages.

My first attempts I made in muffin tins ( nicknamed muffnuts ) although tasty these were quite big, in a lightbulb moment I wondered how they would turn out in my cake pop mould. 

Being very impatient I tried to remove my first batch without letting them cool properly and I was left with twice as many half moon doughnuts, undeterered my second batch I left to cool for about 30 minutes in the mould and they all popped out perfectly.  

70g Butter

200g Caster Sugar

1 Egg

200g Plain Flour

1 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1/2 Teaspoons Ground Cinnamon

125ml Milk

100g Sugar

1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon (for coating)

I'm a massive fan of Mary Berry's all in recipes. So I put everything in the mixer and beat it for a few minutes until I'm happy with the consistency (doughnut mixture should be a little thicker than a cake mix).

Melt some butter (I do a small amount in a cup in the microwave) and using a pastry brush coat your cake pop mould on both sides. Be generous, you don't want them getting stuck. 

Fill half the mould with your mixture, pop the top of your mould on and bake in the oven on a baking tray at 190 for 20 minutes. Then leave to cool in the mould for a further 30 minutes.

Once out of the moulds. Melt some butter in a bowl. Mix your sugar and cinnamon in another bowl. Then you coat your doughnuts in butter, then coat straight away in the sugar mixture. 

Then the waiting is over and the eating can begin. 

If your not a fan of cinnamon, simply leave it out of the mixture and you could dip half your doughnut in melted chocolate. Equally scrummy. 

Me and my kitchen.

After looking through my Instagram feed and realising a good 80% of my posts were food related I thought I would extend this love to my blog that has been left dormant and unloved for an age.

As I am sure most of you do, I love cooking for my family (when I have time) and love baking too and with Christmas approaching fast I seem to spend most of my time at home in the kitchen.

I love sharing my recipes and finding new ones. So I will post mine if you will share yours.

Bloody Halloween Hearts

There not really that Halloweeny, but I just wanted a excuse to make them and try out my top tip for making heart shaped cupcakes.

So first you make your normal sponge cake mix

6oz Butter

6oz Sugar

3 eggs

6oz Self raising flour

beat your butter and sugar till light and fluffy and your eggs slowly then add your flour. lovely.

Now add a small amount of mixture to each cupcake case, then add a small blob of jam to the centre of each case

Then top the cases up with more cake mixture.

Now add a marble inbetween your tray and your case

Then bake as normal 180 for around 15 mins depending on your oven.

When there cooked, let them cool before dusting with icing.

Enjoy!

Button Biscuits

Recipe and instructions for button biscuits.

Made these with my 5 year old daughter this week, will definitely make them again probably as christmas gifts for the teachers threaded up with ribbon and a lovely gift tag on the top. I'm such a suck up.

Recipe ( from daughters Disney princess cook book )

215g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
140g unsalted butter cut into small pieces
115g soft light brown sugar (we used caster sugar)
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 egg yolk

ok lets go, oven on at 180 c /350 f /gas mark 4

Sift flour, baking powder and salt into large bowl, rub in the butter using fingertips until mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.

 Job for your little helper.

Stir in sugar, cinnamon and egg yolk and using hands kneed into soft dough. flour work surface and roll out dough until 5mm thick.
Here you will need two round cookie cutters one slightly smaller than the other and I used a chop stick to make the holes but  whatever you have will do.

So using the bigger cookie cutter cut out your biscuits then with the slightly smaller one just push into the dough lightly to give a indented inner circle then push your chopstick or other object in the dough and give it a wiggle to make your 4 button holes in a square.

pop them on a greased baking tray and pop in the oven for about 20 mins. my top tip here is take your biscuits out after 10 mins and redo the button holes or they will close up and be no good.

to make into lovely gifts thread up with ribbon in little bundles and give to whoever you think deserves them. ( or eat them all up yourself as they are rather tasty )

Enjoy. x