Little Miss Bento

Baked some doggy donuts today!

Woof~woof~~

haha some of the doggy donuts are a little burnt :P Looks like the doggy had a tan!

I do want to make character glazed donuts sometime soon but today lets eat a more healthy and less sweet option :)

They earned thumbs up from my colleagues and many have also asked me for the recipe :) looks like this is a keeper!

I just need to practice baking the donuts so that I can more cuter designs!

I found them a  little sweet for me so I have already reduced the sugar in the recipe below.

Also the pink cheeks were not so obvious after baked, might have to make the pink dough darker in colour.

I should have a game – find the Doggy Donut charm! haha yes, you might have noticed that tiny cute charm in the earlier photos and definitely in the photo above.

As part of a creative collaboration between me and my IG friend @oborochann, I made these doggy donuts inspired by her cute charm piece.

Want to bake some of these cute donuts? Here it is :)

Oh yes, some of you might wish to cake the donut mold I used. Mine is KAI Cake Mate Silicon Donut Mold, you can now buy direct from Japan via Global Rakuten. I found a store link with the product here.

Recipe for Baked Doggy Donuts

(Makes 12 mini donuts)

Ingredients

• 200g Morinaga hotcake mix
• 100g milk
• 200ml whipping cream
• 1 egg (med size)
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tbsp melted butter (unsalted)
• 2 tbsp sugar

For the designs, prepare the following in 3 separate small bowls:

• (A) 1 tsp milo powder + 1tsp cake flour
• (B) 1 tsp black cocoa powder

*if you do not have the Japanese black cocoa powder, you can use valrhona dark cocoa powder

• (C) 1 tsp cake flour + pink coloring

*I use pink icing colour in the recipe

Method

1. In a large bowl, add in the hotcake mix, milk, whipping cream, egg, maple syrup, melted butter and sugar. Mix well.
2. Scoop out 4 tsp of batter into (A), 2 tsp of batter into (B) and 2 tsp of batter into (C). Mix well.
3. Transfer the batter from step 2 into small piping bags. I used baking paper to roll up my own mini piping bags. I find the ones made from baking paper easier to control the batter when I draw out the designs.
4. If there are leftover melted butter, you can use it to lightly oil the donut mold. If not you can use a little salad oil or vegetable oil with kitchen paper napkin to do the same.
5. Draw out the designs on the mold. (A) is used for the doggy’s ears, (B) is used for the eyes and nose and (C) is used for the cheeks.
6. Bake at 180C for 1 min.
7. Remove mold from oven, pour in the batter until about 90% full. Bake at 180C for 14-15mins.
8. Wait till cool before removing donuts from the mold, if not the design might crack.
9. Repeat steps 1-7 to bake the second batch. 
   

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