My father would buy cake doughnuts whenever I had friends over when I was growing up and I don't even need sentimental value to love them. Cake doughnuts are far better than the glazed garbage that choked them out of almost every bakery I've found.
Anyway, I've found the perfect recipe and baking pan to make them, but I can't recreate the icing. This is the icing recipe I've had the most success with, but it's not cutting it:
ingredients
1/2 stick butter
3 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup confectioner's sugar
Cake doughnuts are meant to have thicker/harder icing than this. The recipe has the ingredients brought to a boil before applying to the doughnuts and the icing does harden to some extent, but to recreate the doughnut from my childhood I need an icing that is harder after it cools down and is ideally a little thicker/richer (it should be opaque). Whether chocolate or vanilla, what do I need to do to make a thicker/harder icing? I've searched countless recipe websites and haven't found anything comparable to or better than this =(
Benjamin
Anyway, I've found the perfect recipe and baking pan to make them, but I can't recreate the icing. This is the icing recipe I've had the most success with, but it's not cutting it:
ingredients
1/2 stick butter
3 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup confectioner's sugar
Cake doughnuts are meant to have thicker/harder icing than this. The recipe has the ingredients brought to a boil before applying to the doughnuts and the icing does harden to some extent, but to recreate the doughnut from my childhood I need an icing that is harder after it cools down and is ideally a little thicker/richer (it should be opaque). Whether chocolate or vanilla, what do I need to do to make a thicker/harder icing? I've searched countless recipe websites and haven't found anything comparable to or better than this =(
Benjamin