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Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts

December 22, 2016 by rachelle 5 Comments

Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts are perfect for the beer lover with a custard flavored stout beer in the donut and the filling.

 

I wanted a White Christmas.

Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts are perfect for the beer lover with a custard flavored stout beer in the donut and the filling.

So I fried up some beer donuts and made it snow.

Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts are perfect for the beer lover with a custard flavored stout beer in the donut and the filling.

Now, I’m not going to blow smoke up you dress and tell you that these are not high maintenance because they are.  They are some time consuming donuts for sure, but they are by no means complicated.  Of course, I found it highly necessary to put beer in the donuts and the mascarpone filling.

It is the holidays after all!

There are currently about 180 breweries open in North Carolina, so I normally buy, drink, and cook with local (mostly Charlotte) beer.  I like supporting local businesses and some of them I’m lucky enough to call friends, but sometimes I find something in a bottle shop that I can’t live without.  I love love love this seasonal Creme Brulee Stout from Southern Tier.  If you can get your hands on some you should buy it all and hoard it for yourself like I do.  I made these brownies and this ice cream with it and it’s so good. If you can’t get this beer where you are, that’s really a bummer, but you could use a porter or stout that’s on the sweeter/heavy vanilla side and they will be a similar flavor and texture.

I hope you all have a very happy and hoppy holiday! 🙂

Love, Rach

Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts are perfect for the beer lover with a custard flavored stout beer in the donut and the filling.
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Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts

Ingredients

For the Donuts

  • 1 1/2 cups whole milk
  • 5 tablespoons butter
  • 2 packets active dry yeast
  • 1/2 cup warm beer
  • 2 eggs lightly beaten
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 - 4 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 quart bottle of canola oil for frying

For the Filling

  • 8 ounces mascarpone
  • 1 stick butter
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons beer

Instructions

For the Donuts

  1. Warm the beer slightly in the microwave, sprinkle both yeast packets over top, and stir slightly to combine, set aside for 15 minutes
  2. Heat milk and butter together in a pan just to the point where the butter is melted, set aside to cool slightly
  3. Pour the milk/butter mixture into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook
  4. Add beer/yeast mixture
  5. Add eggs, vanilla, and salt
  6. Turn mixer on low and add flour 1 cup at a time until incorporated
  7. Turn mixer to medium high and beat until dough is smooth and pulls from sides - about 5 minutes
  8. Coat a large bowl with oil, add dough, turn to coat all sides, cover with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm place to rise for about an hour or until doubled in size
  9. Roll dough out to about 3//4 inch thick square on a well-floured surface
  10. Cover a large baking sheet with parchment paper then generously sprinkly with flour and add powdered sugar to a bowl
  11. Use a biscuit cutter to cut dough into circles and set on prepared baking sheet
  12. Cover with a clean linen towel and let rise in a warm place for 30 - 45 minutes or until about doubled in size
  13. Heat oil in a large Dutch oven to 365 degrees
  14. Carefully and in batches add dough to hot oil and fry for about two minutes on each side
  15. Remove from oil and set on a wire rack with paper towels underneath to catch drips
  16. Let cool for about 1 minute then coat with powdered sugar by dropping it into the bowl and turning to cover all sides, then return to cooling rack
  17. Repeat until all donuts are cooked and coated with powdered sugar

For the Filling

  1. Add mascarpone, butter, vanilla to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and mix on low until combined
  2. Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time and beat until smooth
  3. Add beer and mix until combined
  4. Transfer filling to a pastry bag fitted with a round-holed tip
  5. Use a paring or other small knife to poke a small hole in the side and to the center of the donuts - careful not to go all the way through - move knife back and forth to make a pocket for the filling
  6. Stuff the tip of the pastry bag into the donut hole and slowly squirt the filling in, repeating with each donut

NOTES:

  1. I used a 3 7/8 inch/9mm biscuit cutter because it was the biggest one I have and I ended up with about 9 donuts.  The amount will vary according to the size of the cutter you use.
  2. Don’t be worried if your donuts don’t look real thick after you cut them and let them rise again.  They will puff up like nobody’s business when you drop them in the hot oil
  3. Cream cheese could be substituted for the mascarpone
  4. I used Creme Brulee Stout from Southern Tier Brewing Company, but if you can’t find it a winter ale, stout, or porter that’s very vanilla forward and on the sweeter side will work here.
Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts are perfect for the beer lover with a custard flavored stout beer in the donut and the filling.

Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts are perfect for the beer lover with a custard flavored stout beer in the donut and the filling | Beer Girl Cooks

Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts

Creme Brulee Stout Mascarpone Stuffed Donuts

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Pumpkin Ale Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

October 30, 2016 by rachelle 13 Comments

Pumpkin Ale Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

Halloween takes me back to high school.

Pumpkin Ale and Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

I’m not really sure why.  For some reason I always seem to think about my friends, Nick and Alex. They were brothers.  They drove a VW bus and had a cocker spaniel that they took everywhere. The bus was adorned with curtains covered in mushrooms, the license plate was attached wtih a ginormous safety (think diaper) pin, and there was a bumper sticker that said, “Because I’m the Mommy, that’s why.”

I’m sure you can understand why I can’t remember the dog’s name or the color of the bus.

Pumpkin Ale and Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

Where am I going with this?  Beats me.  I was just thinking about Halloween and with that my memory always goes back to a time when things were simple.  Even though at the time it all seemed complicated. Around Halloween, I always think about a fall day when Nick and Alex (and aforementioned cocker spaniel who I cannot remember the name) rolled into my driveway in their VW bus.  They wanted to ride up to the mountains and look at the foliage.  Did I want to go?  Sure!

Pumpkin Ale and Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

Who woudn’t?  We picked up a few friends, a few beverages (yes – the boozy kind even though we were in high school – sorry Mom!), and a pack or two of cigarettes – sorry about that too, Mom.  No worries – I don’t smoke anymore.  Virginia Slims 120’s lost some stock value and I was a lot cooler in 1988.

Pumpkin Ale and Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

I can still remember how colorful the trees looked in the distance.  I feel the breeze ruffle the leaves and blow my hair as I jumped into that VW bus.  I grabbed a smoke and a beer while greeting the dog and I didn’t have a single care in the world.  We were off to the mountains in the way of the young in a cloud of innocence.

Pumpkin Ale and Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

I’ll never forget it.  I’ll always miss it.

Pumpkin Ale and Butterscotch Donuts Recipe
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Pumpkin Ale Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups cake flour
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 eggs room temperature and lightly beaten
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 1/4 cup pumpkin ale beer
  • 1 cup butterscotch chips
  • 3 tablespoons heavy cream

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. Whisk together flour, brown sugar, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice
  3. In another bowl, combine buttermilk, eggs, vanilla, sour cream, and beer
  4. Add wet ingredients to the dry and stir to combine
  5. Coat 2 donut pans with cooking spray
  6. Spoon donut batter into the pans until not quite full
  7. Bake 16 - 18 minutes or until golden brown
  8. Cool in pans on wire rack for 5 - 6 minutes then turn out onto the rack to cool completely
  9. Combine butterscotch chips and heavy cream in a bowl and microwave for 30 second intervals until smooth and combined without lumps stirring in between
  10. Coat donuts with butterscotch by either dunking them in the bowl or spooning it over the tops

NOTES:

  1. Be careful not to burn your fingers when glazing the donuts as ganache will be hot
  2. You will also want to work quickly because ganache will get thick and harden when it cools, but you can reheat it in the microwave for a few seconds at a time until it warms up again
  3. If the donuts stick to the pan, just use a rubber spatula to go around the edges and they’ll release
  4. This recipe made 24 donuts
  5. This recipe contains alcohol and shouldn’t be served to minors

Pumpkin Ale and Butterscotch Donuts Recipe

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Pumpkin Spice Baked Donuts with White Chocolate Ganache Recipe

October 12, 2016 by rachelle 16 Comments

Pumpkin Spice Baked Donuts with White Chocolate Ganache Recipe

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with Whit Chocolate Ganache Recipe

 

I seriously have a problem with pumpkin.  And donuts.

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with White Chocolate Ganache Recipe

I have no earthly idea when or how my love affair with pumpkin came about, but for as long as I can remember, it has been one of my absolute favorite flavors – and not just for fall.  I know we’ve talked about this, but don’t judge me.

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with White Chocolate Ganache Recipe

Moving on.  I’m relieved to say that those of us in the Charlotte area fared pretty well with Hurricane Matthew, unfortunately the eastern part of the great state of North Carolina is still having some trouble with flooding.  When it hit here Saturday, it was pretty much just a big old windy rain storm here.

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with Whit Chocolate Ganache Recipe

I’m sure you won’t judge me if I tell you I spent the day with friends and family in a bar drinking beer and watching college football.  I can 100% assure you that what I saw of the NC State game was one hot muddy mess and there was a slight delay for lightening.  I’m just glad I don’t have to do that laundry. Help me, Rhonda.

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with Whit Chocolate Ganache Recipe

I know if may come as a great shock to find out that we went to a brewery for some lunch and beer on Sunday.  All I can say is that there was much beer to be had this weekend.  The food was good too!

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with Whit Chocolate Ganache Recipe

We spent Monday watching the Panthers lose.  There was a lot of profanity up in here.  That’s all I’ve got to say about that.

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with Whit Chocolate Ganache Recipe

So let’s forget all about any of our teams that didn’t fare so well this weekend and stuff our faces with some pumpkin spiced donuts covered in white chocolate ganache.

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with Whit Chocolate Ganache Recipe

Ya dig?

Pumpkin Spiced Baked Donuts with Whit Chocolate Ganache Recipe
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Pumpkin Spice Baked Donuts with White Chocolate Ganache Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 1/4 cups cake flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs at room temperature and lightly beaten
  • 3/4 cup Greek yogurt plain
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 cup pumpkin
  • 1 cup white chocolate chips
  • 3 tablespoons heavy cream

Instructions

  1. Preheat over to 350
  2. Whisk together cake flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice and salt
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, yogurt, buttermilk, and pumpkin
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir to combine
  5. Coat 2 donut pans with cooking spray
  6. Fill the donut pans with batter almost all the way to the top
  7. Bake 15 - 17 minutes
  8. Cool in pans on wire rack 5 - 7 minutes, then turn out of pan and cool completely
  9. Combine white chocolate chips and heavy cream and microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until combined and no lumps
  10. Dunk each donut in the white chocolate ganache or use a spoon to pour over tops

NOTES:

  1. Be careful not to burn your fingers when glazing the donuts as ganache will be hot
  2. You will also want to work quickly because ganache will get thick and harden when it cools, but you can reheat it in the microwave for a few seconds at a time until it warms up again
  3. If the donuts stick to the pan, just use a rubber spatula to go around the edges and they’ll release
  4. This recipe made 24 donuts
  5. This recipe contains alcohol and shouldn’t be served to minors

Pumpkin Spice Baked Donuts with White Chocolate Ganache Recipe

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National Doughnut Day Doughnut Recipe Roundup

June 1, 2016 by rachelle 27 Comments

National Doughnut Day Doughnut Recipe Roundup

National Doughnut Day

Well, what do you know?  It turns out that this Friday, June 3rd is National Doughnut Day. Whaaat?!?!

Karrie with Tasty Ever After and I wanted to celebrate this delicious carby holiday so we put together a recipe roundup of some of the most yummy doughnuts by our favorite Bloggers.  So go grab some doughnut making ingredients and help us celebrate National Doughnut Day!!

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Before we move on to this delicious doughnut recipe roundup, I have a very important question: doughnut or donut?  I’m very well aware that I’ve asked this question before, but it seems appropriate to revisit the question of why in tarnation there could possibly be two different spellings for one single magical creation.

When we last discussed this difference in spelling, I shared with you the results of my Google research. For those of you who missed it, you can read about it here and here, but the gist of it is that the dictionary-approved spelling is doughnut and the shortened version became popular in the late 20th century as part of  a Dunkin’ Donuts marketing campaign.

Now, for some more interesting reading about the evolution of the actual doughnut, head over to Karrie’s website for a totally interesting history lesson.

Now, about those doughnuts/donuts!

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Tasty Ever After Carrot Cake Donuts with Brandy Candied Walnuts  (pictured above & photo credit)

How Sweet It Is  Strawberry Buttermilk Sprinkle Donuts

Feast and West  Baked Birthday Cake Donuts

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Me  Cara Cara Orange White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts  (pictured above & photo credit)

Club Narwhal  Baked Dark Chocolate Strawberry Donuts

Cook with Kushi  Banana Doughnut Holes

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No Spoon Necessary  Raspberry Vanilla Baked Donuts with White Chocolate Glaze  (pictured above & photo credit)

Mon Petit Four  Jelly Doughnuts

Ciao Chow Bambina  Baked Strawberry Doughnuts with Fresh Strawberry Glaze

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The Beach House Kitchen  Key Lime Pie Donuts  (pictured above & photo credit)

Havoc in the Kitchen  Baileys Cake Donuts 

Sally’s Baking Addiction  How to Make Homemade Glazed Doughnut

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Spiced Blog  Baked Samoa Doughnuts  (pictured above & photo credit)

Sugar Love Spices  Baked Doughnut Delights

GiGi Eats Celebrities  Healthy Doughnuts

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Martha Stewart  Espresso Glazed Doughnuts  (pictured above & photo credit)

Brown Eyed Baker  Vanilla Cream Filled Doughnuts

Handle the Heat  Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnuts

Bakingdom  French Toast Doughnuts

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Love & Custard  Sugared Pumpkin Doughnuts  (pictured above & photo credit)

Cooking Classy  Baked Nutella Doughnuts with Nutella Glaze

Beyond the Chicken Coop  Apple Fritters

 

Have a very happy National Doughnut Day, y’all! 🙂

Filed Under: Archives Tagged With: breakfast, brunch, cake, donut, doughnut, sweet

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

April 18, 2016 by rachelle 31 Comments

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

Tomato Tom-ah-to.  Potato Pot-ah-to.  Doughnut v. Donut?  Which camp are you in?

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

I did a little Googling on this topic and it turns out that Doughnut is the dictionary-approved spelling for this sweet indulgence.  It was shortened to donut in the late 1800’s, but was popularized in the 1920’s by a campaign for the popular American Dunkin’ Donuts chain.

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

The doughnut spelling is more popular and widely used, but the donut version is used in about 1/3 of American publications.

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

I tend to be old school when it comes to grammar and writing.  I know!  I know!  I don’t keep things perfect on this here website and I’m quite proud of my ability to create long run on sentences.  The reality is that I am a bit more casual here and like to keep my voice conversational.  Like how I actually talk with my friends, ya know?

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

As an attorney, I’ve spent years with the more conservative style of writing for motions, orders, etc.

Latin anyone?

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

Didn’t think so.

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

So deep in my heart I identify with traditional and I go with doughnuts.  If you like donuts, then be all you can be!  There are no judgments here!

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

Now that we’ve got the academics out of the way, let’s talk about these Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts/Donuts.  If you can find Cara Cara Oranges, buy every single one of them and hoard them all for yourself.  I don’t like to advocate violence, but I’ll not judge you if you must mow down your granny in order to scoop them all into your cart and run for the door.

I also don’t encourage shoplifting, but no judgements you if you lose your head.

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

I got sidetracked and lost my own head over these oranges, so let’s get this train back on the rails and talk about doughnuts.  I don’t know why, but a few weeks ago I had an unreasonable compulsion to make doughnuts.  Problem.  No doughnut pan.  We went on a mission to find the doughnut pan, found one, and here we are with some delicious Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts.

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

Oh!  And did I mention that they’re baked, not fried?  Points for less calories!

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

 

Less calories justifies more glaze.  I’m just sayin’…..

 

One more thing.  We are celebrating all things spring and eating fancy pants doughnuts, so why not have a giveaway too?  BAM!  A few of my blogger friends and I have collaborated to bring you an awesome giveaway for a chance to win a $300 Amazon gift card!  Scroll down below the recipe for a list of my awesome friends and the Rafflecopter options to enter.  Good luck!

 

 

Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts
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Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts

Ingredients

For the Donuts

  • Cooking spray
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg lightly beaten
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
  • 1 Cara Cara Orange juice and zest

For the Cara Cara Orange and White Chocolate Glaze

  • 3 Cara Cara Oranges juiced and zested
  • 5 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
  • 2 tablespoons heavy cream

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt
  3. In a separate bowl combine egg, milk, melted butter, vanilla bean paste, Cara Cara juice and zest
  4. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients, pour in the wet ingredients, and stir until just combined
  5. Generously coat doughnut pan with cooking spray
  6. Transfer batter to doughnut pan filling about 3/4 full
  7. Bake 15-18 minutes
  8. Cook on wire rack for 5-7 minutes then turn out onto the rack, repeat until all batter is gone - should make about 12 - I only have one pan so if you have two just use both
  9. While the doughnuts are baking make the glaze
  10. Combine the juice from the 3 Cara Cara Oranges and powdered sugar in a bowl, add 1/4 cup of the milk and then continue adding milk 1 tablespoon at a time until you have the consistency you like
  11. Put white chocolate chips and heavy cream in a microwave safe bowl and heat at 30 second intervals, stirring in between each heating until melted and smooth
  12. Pour Cara Cara glaze over doughnuts
  13. Do it again - because why wouldn't you?
  14. Use a spoon, pastry bag, or zip top bag with a small corner cut off to drizzle white chocolate over the top in whatever pattern blows your dress up
  15. Garnish with zest


 

 

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