HippieDog's Favorite Recipes

Strawberry Applesauce Doughnuts

I bought some lunch size strawberry applesauces for Jake's lunchbox.

Well, he doesn't like strawberry applesauce, or really applesauce in general.

I had to figure a way to put them to good use.

So, what's a girl to do but to make a batch of pink strawberry doughnuts.

 

Strawberry Applesauce Doughnuts

1 1/4 cups cake flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
4 ounce container strawberry applesauce
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
cooking spray

Icing

1 cup powdered sugar
4 TB milk
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
red food coloring
sprinkles

Preheat Baby Cakes Doughnut Maker and spray generously with cooking spray.

Combine cake flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Whisk together and set aside.

In large bowl, combine applesauce, oil, egg and vanilla. Mix until well combined. Gradually whisk in dry ingredients.

Spoon in Baby Cakes Maker, not all the way to the top. Close lid and bake 2 minutes.

Let cool on wire rack.

When cool, dip doughnuts half way in icing and decorate with sprinkles. Place on wire rack to set.

Tips: Spray doughnut maker with cooking spray for each batch you make. This recipe makes about 21 mini doughnuts. I used a pastry bag to fill my dough maker, makes it much easier to fill.

For the icing, combine powdered sugar, vanilla, drop food coloring and 2 TB of milk. Whisk together. Gradually add more milk little by little as needed. You don't want the icing to be too thick or runny. Just keep adding and whisking until you get it just right.

Oh and if you're a double dipper like me, you may want to double the icing :)

Just say'in.

Laaaaa----laaaa

LOVE :)

 

Pumpkin Cinnamon and Sugar Doughnuts

I still had a little canned pumpkin left from baking my Pumpkin Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies.

I'm usually not a doughnut person but I had some weird doughnut craving and remembered I bought that cute little babycakes doughnut maker :)

So good and made me even more excited for FALL. My favorite time of year.

 

Pumpkin Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts
Babycakes

1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup milk

Topping

1 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tsp. ground cinnamon

In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon. Whisk together and set aside. I didn't have any pumpkin pie spice--so I made my own :)

In large mixing bowl, combine oil, brown sugar, egg, pumpkin and vanilla. Mix until well combined. Gradually add dry ingredients, alternating with milk. Mix just until combined. Do not over mix.

Spray babcakes doughnut maker with cooking spray and preheat as directed.

Fill with 2 TB batter. Cook for 3 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Meanwhile, melt butter in small bowl and in another bowl, whisk together cinnamon and sugar.

Dip hot doughnuts in butter and roll in cinnamon and sugar mixture. Repeat cinnamon and sugar and cool on wire rack.

Recipe slightly adapted from the babycakesshop.com

 

Mini Sour Cream Chocolate Glazed Donuts

Well I caved in and bought a mini donut maker. I can't tell you how many times I passed the babycakes display and just walked by.

I had a bit of Kohl's cash to burn and it was a weak moment.....I grabbed the donut maker.

We made a batch of sour cream donuts with chocolate glaze. They turned out adorable and tasted really good too :) Jake loved dunking them and pouring on the sprinkles.

I'll have to look around for more recipes that I can adapt to use for this little donut maker. So FUN!

Sour Cream Donuts

1 1/3 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 TB baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup sour cream
1 egg
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

Combine dry ingredients. Set aside.

In mixing bowl, combine milk, oil, sour cream, egg and vanilla. Beat until smooth and creamy. Gradually add in dry ingredients, just until combined.

Preheat babycakes maker. Spray with cooking spray. Add 1-2 TB mixture to pan and cook in babycake maker 3 minutes. Let cool and dunk in chocolate glaze and sprinkles.

Recipe source: thebabycakesshop.com

Chocolate Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar
2 TB unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
2 TB milk

Whisk until smooth and creamy.

Dunk your favorite donut and add sprinkles, nuts or candy :)