Baked Mini-Doughnuts

 I do love a good doughnut.  Yet, it is a challenge to find good doughnuts these days.  They are all mass produced from who knows what ingredients. The notion of pouring lots of oil into a pan to fry homemade doughnuts, then disposing of that oil, does not appeal.  Well, how about those baked doughnuts that everyone is featuring these days?  I came upon a couple recipes that looked good. Now to find the pan.  Ah, I got the last mini-doughnut pan on the shelf at Kohl's.  'Cause, you know, I didn't want to wait to mail order a pan.   I wanted that doughnut NOW.  A few hours later, here are Apple Cider baked doughnuts with cider glaze.  Are they good?  Yes.  Are they great?  No.

I shall keep making them until I find a favorite.  I've got a recipe for pumpkin with maple glaze; browned butter with chocolate glaze and many more.  The mini pan performed perfectly.  I sprayed each well with a squirt of PAM.  I spooned about 1TBS of batter into each well; then using my dampened finger I mooshed it around to uncover the center "hole".  I followed advice to not over bake.  In my 350 degree oven 6 minutes was just right.  Best eaten same day.  Guess I better have another taste test.