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Red Velvet Baked Donuts with Cream Cheese Frosting

Hannah Lucio

Ok, so I have to get this out of the way. My donuts are not red because the recipe calls for 1 Tbsp of red dye and we had 1/2 Tbsp…..so we used all the dye colors HA! They are green and might do this for St Patrick’s Day coming up.

I found this recipe about 1 minute after my son and I decided to make donuts. They are amazing!!! So good I wanted to eat way more than one at a time. I highly recommend recipe for baked donuts.

 

Ingredients:

3/4 Cup Granulated Sugar

1 1/2 tsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1/2 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Baking soda

1 1/4 cup Unbleached all purpose flour

1/2 cup Buttermilk (I used almond milk and vinegar to make mine)

1/2 cup and 2 tsp of vegetable oil

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp vinegar

1 Tbsp red food coloring

 

Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:

1 cup Powdered Sugar

1 oz Cream Cheese

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp of almond milk or regular milk

 

Directions For The Donuts:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Spray donut pan with non-stick spray
  3. In a large bowl add flour, baking soda, salt cocoa powder and sugar. Mix and set aside.
  4. In a medium bowl, whisk together; egg, buttermilk, vegetable oil, vanilla, food coloring and vinegar.
  5. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and whisk together. Do not over mix but mix enough so you do not have clumps in the batter.
  6. Fill the donut ring, I filled it to the top of the donut mold but not high enough to cover the middle.
  7. Bake for 12 minutes. Take out of the oven and let them cool on a cooling rack for a few minutes.

Directions for the Cream Cheese Frosting:

  1. Combine the Cream Cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla in a bowl. Mix (whisk) until all together.
  2. Add 1 tsp of almond milk or regular milk and mix until creamy. If you need to add more to get the perfect consistency, add a very small amount at a time.

I dipped the cooled off donuts in the frosting until coated on one half of the donut. You can add sprinkles if you like. And oh my goodness….they taste amazing!! Enjoy!!

 

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Recipe From Homemadehooplah.com

 

 

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Milk Chocolate Fudge

Hannah Lucio

This is an amazing and easy fudge recipe that I just made yesterday. I made a different recipe last week and it was disgusting! That recipe called for baking chocolate and it was gross. This is going to be my go-to recipe when I want fudge. It is really creamy, smooth and melt in your mouth fudge. I always looked forward to the holidays when my mom would make fudge and now I can have a little taste of “home” on the East Coast. Here is the easy recipe, I hope you get to enjoy it as much as we do.

 

Ingredients:

2 1/2 Cups White Granulated Sugar

3/4 Cup Butter (softened, it makes it easier and faster to cook)

2/3 Cup Evaporated Milk

2 Cups Milk Chocolate Chips (I use Nestle Toll House=Yum!)

7 Ounce Jar Marshmallow Cream (I always use Kraft)

1 tsp Vanilla

Directions:

  1. Line a pan with parchment paper. Typically you would use a 9 inch square pan or in my moms case a cookie sheet for thinner fudge. I used my Cast Iron pan and it was perfect for me. It is a non-traditional shape for fudge.
  2. Use a heavy saucepan (I used my Pioneer Woman dutch oven, I’m trying to not cook with metal). Over high heat, combine; Sugar, butter and evaporated milk. Use a wooden spoon (the best for fudge) to stir slowly until butter melts. Make sure to scrape the sides of pan so you do not leave sugar crystals.
  3. Bring to a full rolling boil, stir constantly with your wooden spoon. Once it is at a full rolling boil turn the heat down to medium and cook it for 5 minutes. Make sure you stir constantly to prevent it from sticking to the bottom and to cook it evenly.
  4. Once mixture is done with the 5 minutes,  test to see if it is done. Fill a little glass cup with ice old water and drop a tsp of the very hot sugar mixture in it. If the sugar mixture can roll into a ball then it is done.
  5. Remove the mixture from the heat and add the chocolate chips. Stir until the chocolate chips are melted and mixture is smooth. Add the marshmallow cream an vanilla and mix really well until smooth. Pour into prepared pan right away.
  6. Let fudge cool down and try not to eat to much of it before then. Ha ha I really love warm fresh fudge so this is VERY hard for me!
  7. Once it is cooled take out of pan with the parchment paper, cute and serve. Make sure to really cover the fudge to prevent it from getting hard.

 

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The BEST brownie recipe you need to try

Hannah Lucio

I have been making this recipe since I can even remember baking brownies. The only thing I have changed is the Crisco ingredient, I use butter now and it tastes better! I also add more vanilla 🙂

 

Ingredients:

3/4 Cup Cocoa (I used Hershey Cocoa)

2/3 Cup Butter

2 Cups Sugar (I use raw sugar from Costco)

4 Eggs

1 1/2 tsp Vanilla

1 1/4 Cup Flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Salt

 

Directions:

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees

-Spray cake pan with non-cooking spray. I used Pioneer Woman’s 3.6 qt ceramic turquoise baker and it was the perfect size. I have actually used round pans, 9 x 13 size pan and other varieties so choose what you like.

-In a medium size saucepan melt the butter on the stove and then add cocoa in. Set to the side to cool down a bit.

-In a medium size bowl beat eggs and then mix in sugar and vanilla

-When cocoa mixture is cooled off a bit add the sugar mixture and mix well. Set aside.

-In a small bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt together.

-Add flour mixture to saucepan and mix until just mixed.

-Pour into pan and bake for 30-40 minutes or until toothpick tested in the middle of the pan comes out clean.

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-Enjoy! I try to wait until it cools but I normally do not HA!

 

 

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Chocolate chip cookies

Hannah Lucio

Ok first, make yourself a cup of black coffee. No seriously, that’s one of the ingedients that make this recipe so yummy. If you don’t like coffee or do not have coffee don’t worry, just use hot water instead. But it really make the flavor pop in chocolate chip cookies. 

Second, turn on some music! My son and I love listening to Taylor Swifts station on iheartradio. If at anytime a fun song that you love to dance to or your kids love to dance to just take a break and dance with them. It makes life fun and it’s a great bonding experience with your kids. When Shake It Off comes on we always dance around the room, it’s so much fun! 

Ok back to the cookies 🙂
I found this recipe online and changed it a bit, just like almost all recipes I find.  
Ingredients:

1 Cup softened butter (I’ll leave mine out all day to naturally soften) 

1 Cup white sugar

1 Cup Packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

3 cup all purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp hot black coffee

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Dissolve baking soda in hot coffee in a bowl and set aside. 
  • Put butter, white sugar and brown sugar in mixing bowl. Mix until creamy and smooth 
  • Beat in eggs one at a time
  • Add to the coffee and baking soda mixture along with salt and vanilla, mix together
  • Stir in flour until it is blended together but do not over mix. 
  • Add chocolate chips and mix with wooden spoon 
  • Use cookie scoop (I use the Wilton 8″ stainless steel cookie scoop) to put cookies on cookie sheet. I have three different cookie sheet sizes and the biggest one I put 3 cookies across and 5 down
  • Bake for about 11 minutes or until edges are nicely brown. 
  • When done let them sit on the cookie sheet for a minute to relax and then put them onto cooling rack. 

 

Enjoy a hot cup of black coffee while baking, might as well since the cookies need them anyway 🙂
  
One heaping cup of chocalate chips. We use a tad bit more chocolate chips than the norm
  
Maverick loves chocolate chips!
  
Cookie scoop. Space the cookies a bit
  
let the cookies relax a minute before taking them off, they have been through a lot ha ha
  
Finished product. So yummy!
  
Maverick approves!
 

I updated my cookie recipe because I made a few changes and my goodness! They are even more amazing now. This is the updated cookie recipe finished product

  
Hope you enjoy the newer changes to the recipe.
Enjoy and live simple!