So, my New Year’s Resolution to try a new-to-me recipe every week is going pretty well. Or it was going pretty well, until the baked doughnuts with coffee glaze…
I honestly don’t know what happened. I thought I followed the recipe, but maybe I made a mistake somewhere. My oven is very old, so maybe it wasn’t up to the task. I measured out the ingredients by weight, not by volume, and I think that maybe the weight of baking powder was more than the volume, but I’m not sure that would have caused this kind of disaster.
I’m not all that upset, to be honest. I mean, it would have been nice not to waste the ingredients, but whether it’s a mistake I made (likely), an aging oven issue (less likely, but not out of the question), or the recipe needs a little tweaking (unlikely, but not outside the realm of possibility), it’s okay to fail every now and again.
Makes you think a little bit…
I’m going to try a different recipe, because I like the idea of baked doughnuts. I’ll see if a different technique works better. If it’s “bad user on device” I can work out my issues. And if it’s my oven… well, we did take a trip to Lowe’s this last weekend to look at what our options are. (I mean really, the oven is 40 years old and I’ve replaced the element three times in the last 10 years…)
I’ll get it figured out. And if I don’t? It’s not rocket science or brain surgery.
P.S. I tried a different recipe — similar method, but little bit different ingredients. The second try was a smashing success.
Carmen Yount 