Mmmmm.....doughnuts

I was pleasantly surprised to find a lovely package on my front step this afternoon.  My lovely UPS lady dropped of a box from Amazon and my mom and dad sent me the mini doughnut pans I have been eyeing for my birthday.  I managed to hold off for a whole 3 hours before I had to do a little pantry inventory to see if I could come up with the ingredients for one of the doughnut recipes I have been collecting.  I started simple and went with one that uses a cake mix as it's base and it worked out pretty well.  Now, there is no way I would serve these as breakfast as they are really just chocolate cupcakes shaped like doughnuts but, as you can see the girls did enjoy them for dessert tonight.  I love the picture of them peering in the oven, they couldn't wait for them to be done.

Since these were the mini doughnut size it really made quite a bit so I put half in the freezer and frosted and decorated the other half with Halloween sprinkles.   I will do a little more planning for the next batch and hopefully they will be a little more appropriate for breakfast.