How-To #2: Homemade Donuts

So I pretty much have the best dad in the world. Every Sunday morning he puts on the socks I knitted him and cooks up some magic in the kitchen. Everything he makes is great, be it thick Belgian waffles with chocolate chips, scrambled eggs with peppers and sausage, or the classic breakfast food: bacon. One of my favorites is homemade donuts. So seriously stop what you’re doing and make them now; they’re quick and easy. That’s what she he said.

how's that for a donut?

You’re Going to Lose: Hardly any time at all. They take >30 minutes.

You’re Going to Gain: A party in your mouth.

Things You Should Know:

• Don’t throw the dough into the hot oil; it could splatter
• Donuts take hardly any time at all to fry
• Were you going to throw away the dough from the insides?? Donut holes, hello!

Directions:

1. Make the dough. Look for a recipe online if you don’t know how. Keep it simple- water, flour, etc.
2. Form the dough into small-ish circles.
3. Pour Crisco oil into a pan on the stove and heat.
4. Set a few donuts in at a time with tongs. Flip them in 15ish seconds. Whatever you do don’t let them get crispy.
5. Take them out and while they’re warm cover them with cinnamon, powdered sugar, or whatever.

How-To #1: Psychadelic Cupcakes

That’s money right there.

You’re Going to Lose: 2 hrs of your life

You’re Going to Gain: lots of friends, and probably some poundage

Things to know:

• Cake mix=cupcake mix (If you don’t already know this, you shouldn’t be baking)
• Don’t use the ‘funfetti’ cake mix as the colors in the batter will mix with your food coloring
• When the directions say egg whites, DO NOT use the yolks because it makes the cake yellow, instead of white
• Let the cupcakes cool before attempting icing

Directions:

1. Make the batter according to the directions on the box.
2. Evenly distribute the batter into 6 bowls.
3. Make each bowl a different color with about 6ish drops of food coloring.
4. Pour each bowl’s contents evenly into the muffin pan cups. I recommend using up all of one color before going on to another
5. Bake
6. Bite into a cupcake, then take a picture and tweet it so everyone is jealous of you and think you should go on ‘Cupcake Wars’.

Below are the colors I used:

purple

pink

orange

yellow

green

blue