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I've been perusing several food blogs and came across several and I decided that I would pick a recipe from these blogs and try them out myself. This recipe comes from Chocolate Moosey. If you click here it will take you the Chocolate Moosey website recipe for Baked Vanilla Doughnuts but I warn you. This website is like five kinds of awesome so be prepared. The recipe reminds me of a dense vanilla cupcake in doughnut form. It's pretty good but I warn you now. This recipe only made 11 doughnuts for me and the recipe says 9 so you may have to double it if you want to freeze some. I decided my large KitchenAid mixer probably would have a hard time mixing so little ingredients and figured I'd just stir it all together myself. I got my dry and my wet ingredients together. The recipe calls for vanilla bean pods and vanilla extract. I didn't have any vanilla bean pods laying around but that's okay. I use vanilla bean paste which is made from the pods and has lot...

I haven't blogged about any food recipes at all yet so its time I started. I wouldn't classify myself as a great cook but we have several cook books from Julie Child (who doesn't?), Jacques Pepin, Alton Brown just to name a few and I watched Food Network for years until we got tired of the cable monkey on our backs and cut him loose.  Oh, Ina how I miss you but we survive without cable just fine. I have never deep fried foods.  Ever. I've never wanted to dump my Thanksgiving turkey in a vat of superheated peanut oil and I've never tasted the deep fried goodness. I'm sure its good but that's just too much for me to consider. Whenever I see that much oil, I can feel my heart tighten and not in a good way. But sometimes my massive sweet tooth gets the better of me and I want to try to make cream filled doughnuts at home. I buy doughnuts only a handful of times per year but I'm always thinking "I could make a lot more doughnuts at home and they'll...