WHAT WE EAT: CHOCOLATE SPRINKLE DONUTS

Happy Donut Day!!

For our second donut we wanted to do something fun and tasty so we chose a baked chocolate donut heavy on the sprinkles.

INGREDIENTS:

For the donuts:

1 cup flour

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup cocoa powder

1/3 cup sprinkles

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 egg

6 tablespoons sour cream

1/4 cup milk

1/4 cup vegetable oil

For the glaze:

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

6 tablespoons whole milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe adapted from Buns In My Oven

Donuts:

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 6-donut pan. Gather all dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking soda and cocoa) and mix together in medium bowl. In a second bowl combine eggs, sour cream, milk, oil, and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until combined. Fold in sprinkles. Spoon into your donut pan and bake 8 minutes or until the tops spring back. Remove from pan and cool on rack completely before dipping in the glaze.

Glaze:

Heat the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla in a small saucepan over low heat until fully combined. Once donuts have cooled, dip in the glaze and then top with sprinkles of your choice.

Tip: Instead of shaking the sprinkles on top we dipped our donuts in sprinkles right after the glaze to get complete coverage.

We hope you have as much fun making these as we did!

Happy Baking!

WHAT WE DO: DONUT BRIDAL SHOWER

Our very good friend Leah is getting married in a couple of months and what better way to show her we love her than with a donut themed bridal shower! Leah loves donuts just as much as we do so it was the perfect excuse to eat/talk about donuts for an entire morning. 

The shower was held at Paige's apartment and with the help of her roommate Lindsey they definitely made it a shower to remember. We had an assortment of brunch foods: fruit, breakfast casseroles, coffee punch (which is awesome because ice cream) and of course the donuts. The donuts were from Magee's, a local Lexington favorite. The cutest donuts, however, were the DIY paper donut garland from Paper Source. (found here, along with so many other cute donut things!)

We were so happy to celebrate with her, but sometimes a bunch of moms are taking your picture and you don't know which camera to look at. Typical. Speaking of moms, shoutout to Brenda (Paige's mom) who is super thrifty and helped provide all those cute milk bottles and various serving dishes.

And of course a huge Thank You to our wonderful friend Kelly Hieronymus who was kind enough to take some pictures during the shower! She is an awesome photographer and took the best photo of a breakfast casserole that I have ever seen.

We love you Leah! Hope you enjoyed the shower and we can't wait to celebrate even more with you in May!

STRAWBERRY DONUTS WITH NUTELLA GLAZE

You all were probably wondering when the donut portion of this blog was going to happen. Well it's officially happening... and we're here to bring you the perfect donut recipe for your valentine! Strawberry and Nutella go so well together (but what doesn't Nutella go well with?) and this baked donut recipe is super easy.

For the donuts:

1 cup flour

1/3 cup sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt

1/3 cup milk

1 egg

1 tbsp melted butter

10  medium to large strawberries, pureed with 2 tsp seedless strawberry jam

For the glaze:

1 cup powdered sugar

2 1/2 tbsp Nutella

4 - 6 tsp milk

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease a 6-donut pan with cooking spray. Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl and whisk together.  Create a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add in the egg, milk and butter. Stir until well combined. Add in strawberry mixture until the batter is wet, but not runny.  Put the dough in a plastic bag (or pastry bag) and cut off the tip to fill the pan, it makes the process a little less messy. We used the remaining batter to fill a mini donut pan for more variety, but the dough makes about 10 normal sized donuts. Bake for 7-9 minutes until donuts spring back when touched. Let cool five minutes and move onto a cooling rack to cool completely.

In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the glaze ingredients until smooth. Dip the donuts in the glaze once they have cooled. It may take more than one layer to glaze completely, and we added an extra drizzle after the first two layers set!
 
Donut recipe adapted from Mary Quite Contrary Bakes
Glaze recipe from Cooking Classy 

Happy Baking!