Old fashioned sour cream donuts are the kind of cake donut I came up craving on Saturday mornings. Golden and crackly around the edges, tender through the middle, and finished with a thin vanilla glaze that sets just enough to cling without going crunchy. This old fashioned sour cream donuts recipe is the version I … Read more
The word “donut” can mean a yeast-raised ring, a tender cake round, a filled ball, or a piped choux cruller. These homemade donut recipes keep those families separate so the method, oil temperature, bake time, and topping suit the dough in front of you. First Decide: Fry, Bake, Fill, or Air-Fry Fry yeast dough for … Read more
Today is a donut day. Honestly, around here every day is a donut day, but today the craving hit before my coffee had even cooled, and that is how I ended up elbow-deep in donut dough by 9 a.m. If you have ever stood in front of a bakery case and reached past the yeast … Read more
Cookies and cream. Honestly, does anybody else just light up inside when they hear those three words together? Because the second I do, I’m eight years old again, sitting at our dining room table with my brothers, a tall cold glass of milk, and a stack of Oreos between our open homework binders. Nothing got … Read more
Daylight savings has come and gone, the calendar swears it is spring, and Vancouver, as always, has not received the memo. It is still cold, still grey, still very much wet out there. So today I am making my own sunshine the only way I know how, with a very big batch of pretty pink lemon … Read more
There is a very specific kind of joy in pulling a tray of warm, sugar-rolled raspberry jam filled donuts out of the kitchen on a slow Sunday morning. The first time I made them, I had put off yeasted donuts for years because the dough felt intimidating, and honestly, I ate about six of them … Read more
I went on a doughnut quest a while back. Two weeks, six failed batches, an alarming amount of canola oil, and one very patient husband later, I finally cracked it. This perfect yeast doughnuts recipe is the result of every test batch I lived through, and I genuinely think it makes the softest, fluffiest homemade … Read more