Seems like donuts are all the rage on the blogosphere nowadays. After seeing a plethora of posts on apple cider donuts, caramel donuts, baked cinnamon donuts and more, I caved and purchased a donut pan to make baked donuts.
The pan arrived in the mail with a recipe for Spiced Donuts on the back of the packaging. I decided to give it a whirl figuring that if the recipe is featured on the product packaging, it’s gotta be good, right?
Wrong.
These donuts are a big “don’t.”
They came out like donut-shaped muffins. Bread-like and slightly rubbery, they didn’t even have a cinnamony spiced flavor. Perhaps if I had dunked them in melted butter and then rolled them in cinnamon sugar after baking like these donut muffins, they would have tasted better.
At least they looked attractive.
I won’t post the recipe because I don’t want to subject you to the temptation to make these, seeing how rainbow-colored and cute they are, you might not be able to resist.
This article appears in Oct 5-11, 2010.
Crud! I was so excited when I saw your pan and was thinking about getting one. Will you let us know if you find a recipe that does work?
That sucks! Well I guess that what happens when you bake donuts rather then fry them…they come out as muffins.
I could say those donuts are delicious and also it seems to have a perfect texture, chocolate donuts are missing, in fact those are my favorites.