Baked Rum Doughnuts / Donuts & New Year Wishes

First of all lets start with "Advanced New Year Wishes to your family". I am sure that I will not be touching the blog for another few days cos we have loads of stuff planned for the new year. Pie making, friends get together party and loads of shopping is sure gonna leave me dead tired and I am not gonna touch the blog until next year. So advanced wishes... I will be starting the new year with a classic dessert and so stay tuned. Here is my toast to a fun filled year for each one of you. That being said, lets move on to the recipe.

I love clearance, who doesn't and when you get Wilton donut pans for half its price, who wouldn't. Right... Whenever I visit a store, the first stand I visit would be the 70-80% discount ones. You never know what treasures they hold, like this donut pan. There was a store closing nearby and the discount announced was 80-90% and just like anytime I dragged the huss to have a look. The shop had been cleaned out already and all that was left were some dresses hanging in one corner and quite a few other stuff stacked here and there. Thanks be to the huss who had his eye and pointed out the donut pans for me. All he said was "Didn't you want to have one of those for a longtime" and it took me less than a minute to digest what it was and grab one of those beauties.

We love donuts but I have always wanted to enjoy them guilt-free and so the baked ones have always seemed my type. This donut pan is a perfect addition to my bakeware and I see more baked donuts cropping up in this little space of mine. Coming to these donuts, I did mention that I made the rum cake in my last post and how it did collapse when unmolding the same from the cake pan right. I made these donuts from the leftover rum. I browsed for some rum donut recipes and with Google failing to show up recipes I adapted this one from a baked dounut and made changes as needed. I dipped them in a cinnamon sugar coating. While it seemed perfect for me, the huss wanted to have an additional jazzing up and so I coated his share with melted dark chocolate. Both ways they were good and we had it with some cold milk.

~*What U Need*~ Unbleached All purpose flour - 1/2 cup Whole wheat flour - 1/2 cup Baking powder - 3/4 tsp Sugar - 3 tbsp Salt - a pinch Butter - 1 tbsp, melted Egg - 1/2 or 1 egg white Dark rum - 1/2 cup Milk - 2 tbsp Cinnamon - 1/2 tsp Nutmeg - a pinch Vanilla extract - 1 tsp For the coating: Unsalted butter - 2 tbsp Caster sugar - 2 tbsp Cinnamon - a pinch to 1/8 tsp How I Made it: Preheat oven to 350C. Grease a 6-hole doughnut pan with some oil. Melt butter in a saucepan, once cooled add the egg, milk, rum and vanilla. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined. Spoon the batter into the donut holes and bake for 17-20 mins. Allow the doughnuts to cool for 5 mins in the pan and then remove to cooling pans. Once fully cooled, mix the caster sugar and cinnamon in a bowl, melt the butter and dip the doughnuts in the butter and then in the cinnamon-sugar mixture.

Serve with some milk!!!

So thats it Folks...
With Love,

Signs off!!!