It has been a
lovely weekend.
We have been able
to take some time to ourselves relaxing, spending time with friends, and
enjoying the beautiful spring weather that is finally making an appearance.
This time of year
always makes me feel refreshed. With the new buds forming on the tree I am
charged with a new sense of purpose. I love it.
And of course I
had to direct some of this new energy to one of my favourite things – baking.
Over the past
five months, my relationship with baking has turned into a dash of love/hate. Brandon
has been off of refined sugars since the first of December and with that I am
left with piles of muffins and cookies that once upon a time he might have devoured in
an afternoon. The love remains in the mixing and cracking, the hate comes with
the inches on the hips...
So yesterday I
was determined to make some sweets free from refined sugars so that I would not
be left to munch alone. I took a very basic donut recipe and began
experimenting with fruits and flavours to spice it up. Delicious blueberry
lemon donuts with a hint of cherry were the result.
We devoured most
of the batch straight out of the pan, inhaling the sweet warm dough. These
simple treats are light and fluffy, an easy snack for anyone to try.

What you’ll need:
Just shy of a cup
all-purpose flour (whole wheat should work too!)
1 tsp baking
powder
Dash of nutmeg
Dash of salt
(just shake it over a few times, you can’t go wrong!)
1 tsp cinnamon
½ cup honey
3 tblsp cherry
yogurt
2 eggs
3 tblsp vegetable
oil
1 lemon
Handful of
blueberries
Heat your oven to
375 degrees. Mix together all dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl. In a
separate bowl beat together eggs, yogurt, honey, and vegetable oil. Squeeze in the juice of one lemon. Add dry ingredients. Toss in a handful or two of blueberries.
Spoon batter into
a greased donut baking tray. If you don’t have one, you can easily scoop the
mix into a muffin tin and have fresh lemon blueberry muffins instead!
Bake for 12
minutes, or until they spring back when you poke them. Remove from pan and let
cool. Yields six donuts.
Good luck not
eating them all at once!
these look so good, pretty to look at too!
ReplyDeletedanielle | avec danielle
These look insanely good!!
ReplyDeleteL x
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