The Adventures of Jelly Doughnuts

I have had a serious doughnut craving for months now. But all I could find were the cake-type ones. While these are delicious in their own right, I really wanted the entirely unhealthy deep fried kind. So what's a girl going to do?

Well get creative and make some of course!

Doughnuts are an impossibly long process. The starter sponge must be made the night before, and you have to let it rise, cool, and rise again during the day. Not to mention everything has to be hand mixed and hand kneaded since we are a bit limited in kitchenware.   It felt ridiculous that I spent hours working with the dough, and then it took 2 minutes to fry the entire batch, and another 10 minutes for my flat mates and I to eat over half of the batch. Was it worth it? Absolutely!

These delicious bits of fried dough were filled with raspberry jam and coated in sugar, and just soo yummy!

Temptation is just too easy to fall to when it comes to these doughnuts

Now for a baking failure.

These certainly look like innocent chocolate cookies, they could fool even the most serious critic.. Well at least until someone bites into them. The story goes like this:

I was extremely bored the other night while Appendix was still sick which meant I couldn't even do homework. So I decide to make cookies. Everything is going great, I pop one tray in to the microwave  and am happily doing a word search with Brittany while snacking on the dough.However, from the very first bite it is obvious something is wrong. Nothing tastes bad, the texture is perfect, but for some reason it is completely and utterly bland. Completely confused, I reread the recipe and realized I forgotten the tiny, minuscule teaspoon of salt.

Surely salt isn't that important, right? Oh how wrong that is. I added salt to the remaining dough, mixed it as carefully as I could. And voila! The dough tasted like normal! Merf, who would have guessed that such a tiny thing played a huge role in the flavor? 

By the way, that batch of poor salt-less cookies never reached it's true potential. Brittany dubbed them "Fairy Cookies" as they look innocent and delicious but are actually quite devious. But they were still enjoyed by all.