doughnuts for dessert
Posted: January 24, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, breakfast, chocolate, coffee, dessert, donut, doughnut, Doughnut Hole, Food, treat, yummy 3 Comments »A couple days ago, I tried making these oatmeal cookie pie things. The cookie part of them turned out pretty awesome despite the weird ingredients, but I could not make the filling part work. I tried twice and used up all the milk. My guess is I didn’t beat the butter and sugar enough, but I whipped it up for like 10 minutes. I am still kinda bitter about it, but whatever.
But the universe made it up to me yesterday and gave me these doughnuts. My guy has been working awfully late this week, and I knew he would enjoy a baked espresso glazed doughnut. I switched it up a little bit, and made baked doughnut “holes” (aka I used a whoopie pie pan to make baby doughnuts). I also used gold sprinkles on top since I didn’t have any chocolate ones. The guy loved them, as did all the coworkers who enjoyed them this morning.
birthday(s)
Posted: November 19, 2012 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: atx, Austin, birthday, dirty martin, donut, Food Truck, gourdough's, lifestyle 1 Comment »I am pretty sure that each person is allotted one birth day, as well as one birth weekend. Mine was last weekend, and it was wonderful. Lots of desserts, a Christmas bazaar, food truck lunch, a very handsome birthday date, donut making, presents in bed, greasy cheeseburgers, and time to sew. It was perfect.
conquering the donut fear
Posted: November 12, 2012 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, cooking, dessert, donut, doughnut, Food, fried dough, treat Leave a comment »I have had a mild, if not severe, donut infatuation for a while now. I have played with some of the baked kinds, but really, the money is in the actual fried in oil kind. We bought a huge jug of oil several months ago, but I have been scared to try it. Because according to all moms on earth, oil is hot and it will burn me.
But guess what? It really wasn’t that bad. I prepared this recipe here (but I think we will try a different recipe next time). I am guessing that unless you burn them, bits of fried dough dipped in cinnamon sugar are by definition delicious.
It said not to crowd them in the oil, so we gave them plenty of space. They don’t like friends, since they know they are going to be eaten very quickly.
I actually made the dough twice because I thought I messed the first batch up, which I didn’t, so we ended up with 5,000 donuts. Towards the end of our double batch of dough, we got a little creative with our shapes. The snail shell one turned out the best.
pear donuts
Posted: October 29, 2012 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, dessert, donut, doughnut, fall, Food, pear Leave a comment »I have already made pumpkin donuts this season. I wanted to make something else that was still fall themed, and I found these apple doughnuts with caramel drizzle. But then, I took out all the things in the recipe name, and made pear donuts instead. I love a good pear, and it was torture for me to wait for the pear to be ripe, and then save it for the recipe. I tried to make them for breakfast, but I had bad timing, so I had to make them for dessert. They were so good fresh from the oven. I think they would make really good muffins too, since they weren’t too sweet.
donuts for fall
Posted: October 17, 2012 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, donut, doughnut, Food, pecan, pumpkin, pumpkin recipe, pumpkin spice Leave a comment »We had a little get together, and my gift for the table were these pumpkin donuts with pecans (recipe here). I am beginning to think that people only invite me for the treats.
