Farmer’s Wife quilt moving forward - Oversized Donut

I have not picked this project up in a while and am way behind the list that the guild has set for each month on blocks. I started out well then life and other things got in the way. So I dug out the box and finished two of the blocks I had been working on.
Bouquet #8

Silver Lane #79


Now to cut out another couple blocks and get busy on them.

The last couple days have been really warm we hit 100 I think on Friday and Thursday was not a lot better. Thank goodness for central air. Not a lot of plans for this holiday weekend. I had to work this morning and I made a lot of sweets sure hope they sell well over the next day or two. Plus putting a bunch of things out that I keep on hand like muffin's and mini cup cakes and some Dolly Madison mini donuts.

Earlier this week I made a Monster donut I found a pan at JoAnne's I just had to get Oversized Cake Donut
The're two pans in the box and you mix up a cake mix and fill the pans and then bake.

My first attempt at making and oversize donut did not come out very well I am thinking I should of baked it longer the cake was firm to the touch but it did not brown on the bottom. I did not have a cake mix and found a recipe for a Almond cake in a cook book and tried that thinking the flavor would be really good. Well the cake it self tasted good and I used it as a short cake for some strawberries. The problem with it was that it did not brown on the bottom and so when I flipped it out the cake was very blond. and did not look like a brown pretty donut.

So I took the pans to work with me on Wed and made a second attempt at making an over sized cake donut using a yellow cake mix and adding cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves to the batter put it in the pan and baked for 40 min (the first one I only baked about 30 min) and it came out just the way you would want it to look.

 After the two layers were  baked I trim the cake so they were flat and set them together to make a full size donut. Drizzled with frosting and used sprinkles and boxed it up.  Then put it out for sale. I don't know if it was the price I put on it or it just did not strike anyone's fancy. 

I took this picture with my cell phone camera and the box was a little bit steamed up so will have to try this again some time and see if I can get a better picture.

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