Easy Glazed Doughnut Muffins

This week I was inspired by sweetpeaskitchen's glazed doughnut muffins, I HAD to make them. I have adjusted the recipe to what I did; most of it accidentally because I get too lazy to read instructions after a while. It also means my baking isn't pretty either!

Ingredients:
1/4 cup melted Butter
1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
1/2 cup Caster Sugar
1/3 Brown Sugar
2 large Eggs
2 tsp Baking Powder
2 tsp Cinnamon Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1 & 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 & 2/3 cups plain flour
1 cup Milk

Icing
3 tbsp melted Butter
5 tbsp Icing Sugar, sieved
1 & 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract


Makes
18


Muffin preparation
Preheat the oven to gas mark 7/425 Fahrenheit/220 Celsius. Place muffin cases into chosen tin. Beat together the oil, butter, caster sugar and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl with a wooden spoon. Add both eggs and 1 cup of flour and combine. Then add the baking powder, salt, vanilla extract and cinnamon and mix until smooth. Stir in 1 cup of plain flour and 1 cup of milk. Stir in the final 2/3 cup of flour last, and carefully. Spoon the batter into the tins filling the cases to the brim. Bake for 15-18 minutes rotating half through baking time, until a pale golden colour. Cool for 5 mins in the tin the 30 mins on a wire rack before icing.

I tried heart doughnuts, they tend to round off so it was wasted effort!

Icing
Whisk the melted butter, sugar and vanilla until smooth, dip the cooled muffins tops into the glaze and refrigerate for 10 minutes, dip a second time and refrigerate again for 10 minutes. Then Enjoy!

I should have added water to the glaze as they look like pure butter when double dipped. Also, I don't have a whisk and forgot to sieve the icing sugar so there are extra sugar lumps on some.

Yes, they look a mess. But they taste SO good.

Happy Baking!

Lucky Charm Mini Cupcakes

I got VERY excited courtesy of pinterest and cutestfood.com (Seriously, check it out you will pin EVERYTHING!). I found these babies and was desperate to make them, well something like them at least. Being in the UK, Lucky Charms cereal is difficult, not to mention expensive to come by. Lucky for me my lovely boyfriend spoils me and had bought me some already... As well as a mini cupcake tin and the cases for my birthday! My photography presentation for food isn't quite professional yet...

To make the Lucky Charm Mini Cupcakes:

Ingredients

2 cups Self Raising flour, sifted

3/4 cup Milk

3/4 cup Caster Sugar

125g Butter, melted

2 Eggs, whisked

1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

Icing

75g Butter

3/4 cup Icing sugar

Green food colouring

1/4 cup Milk

2 cups Lucky Charms

Makes
About 48

Cupcake Preparation

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Whisk the butter and sugar together until creamy. Add eggs, milk, 1 cup of flour and mix till smooth with a wooden spoon. Fold in the last cup of flour and teaspoon of baking powder with a metal spoon. Spoon about one heaped teaspoon into each mini cupcake case lined in a mini cupcake baking tray. Bake for 12-14 minutes. Leave to cool for 5 minutes in the tray then 20 minutes on a wire rack before icing. Note: The cupcakes will be pale because of the milk.

Icing:Add the green food colouring and butter to the icing sugar and mix gently with a fork. Combine until the mixture resembles little green beads (this will be of different green tones if done right but not essential) then add the milk and mix with a metal spoon to make it icing, with the tiny dark green beads of sugar!


Top the cooled cupcakes with the icing and dip in Lucky Charms.

I made some large cupcakes too as my mini cupcake dish makes 12 at a time and I am impatient...

Alternatively arrange the Lucky Charms as you wish to get the prettiest look.

Lucky Baking!