Giant Donuts

 In honor of National Donut Day, the kids & I made giant donuts. It was pure luck that we found a giant donut pan on clearance while wandering Bed, Bath & Beyond the same day. Kyrie was super-excited at the prospect of having giant donuts in the house, especially the part where she could decorate one.

The pan came with a 'recipe,' but it was basically just a cake mix. Instead, I looked up a baked donut recipe on allrecipes.com and found something that sounded pretty good. Baked donuts are not nearly as good as fried donuts, but they are a lot healthier. The resulting donuts would best be described as a medium-density spice cake. It was not overly sweet and did seem more like a donut than a cake.

I frosted our 2 donuts (the donut pan comes with 2 pieces so you could make a double-layer donut cake) with chocolate icing and let both kids add sprinkles. We each had a piece of donut after dinner that evening. YUM!