Baked Chocolate Donuts Recipe

This recipe makes 6 donuts.

Strawberry Banana Crumb Cake Recipe

This morning I woke up with the desire to bake. My first creation in our new kitchen! I whipped up this Strawberry Banana Crumb Cake. I baked it a few hours ago and the house still smells so delicious.

Valentine's Day Brownies Recipe

This is a recipe for a really fudgy delicious brownie! It's very chocolatey. After you make this recipe you will never buy boxed brownies again. They're so simple and tasty!

 

Ingredients

1 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

For icing:
2 cups confectioner's powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
food coloring
Optional: other decorations - I used sprinkles and confectioner's sugar

Special Equipment (for decoration):
A heart cookie cutter (or use a knife)
A piping set and small tip

Instructions

 

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees. Grease and lightly flour a 9x13 glass pan.

2. In medium sized pot, melt butter. Once butter is melted, stir in chocolate chips. Stir until completely melted. Remove pot from heat. 

3. Stir in white sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Mix until combined.

4. Add cocoa powder, flour, baking powder and salt one at a time and mix until combined. 

5. Spread batter into 9x13 pan. 

6. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. 

7. Remove brownies from oven and allow to cool completely. 

8. Either using cookie cutter or knife, carefully cut brownies into heart shapes. 

9. Mix together icing ingredients. Add more milk teaspoon by teaspoon until it reaches desired consistency. It's ideal when it resembles pancake batter.  Then add how ever much food coloring necessary to make your desired color. 

10. Put icing into piping bag and decorate!

Tip: If adding sprinkles, first ice brownie using brush and then coat with sprinkles. Also, if you would like to dust with confectioner's sugar, cut heart of desired size out of paper or wax paper and then lightly dust with confectioner's sugar. 

 

Salted Caramel Chocolate Cookies

Here is a yummy recipe that I came up with the other day as I was wanting something chocolate. I originally made them without the salt and caramel but felt they needed a little something extra. They turned out great! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

You guys, this is the BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe ever. I'm not just saying that. You have to try these. They are seriously easy to make and taste sooo good. They are soft in the middle and crispy on the edges. A little bit of crunch, with that soft center and oozing chocolate...  what's not to love? And the best part of it all is these are totally customizable. 

You can add in walnuts, m&m's, coconut, chopped Andes mints, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chocolate chips, chopped Snickers bars, or anything else you would like. I've done all of these and they turned on great. The cookies pictured are just straight up chocolate chips. I was feeling like I just wanted a classic cookie today. But the possibilities with this recipe are endless!

Cinnamon Sugar Donuts Recipe

These donuts are perfect for dipping in coffee or hot chocolate. In fact, all donuts are perfect for dipping in coffee or hot chocolate. But these especially. Baked donuts have a cake like texture which makes them not get too soggy when you dip them. Also, baked donuts are a lot healthier than fried. This recipe is a little bit better than your average baked donut as well because I used half whole wheat flour.

Usually baked donuts have more of a thicker density and aren't as fluffy. So I experimented with these and added extra baking powder and salt (the rising agents) and what resulted was a fluffier donut. Perfection.