Monday, April 6, 2020

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts: Carrots Blog With Friends

Today’s post is the next in our series of Blog With Friends themed collaborations. Each month a group of bloggers get together and each publish a project based on a theme. What I love about his partnership is that it's not bloggers with similar interests or strengths but a diverse group coming up with a variety of posts. In any given month we may a recipe, sewing tutorial, crocheting, crafts project, book review, and/or technology post all related to the theme of the month.

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This month's theme is Carrots.

There will be individual project pictures and links to what everyone else has to offer at the end of my post, but here's a peek at what we all came up with:

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Carrots  | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com



I made Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts.

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts are studded with carrots, full of cinnamon flavor, and topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #donuts

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts

Carrots? Yay! My time has come! 

Since I add recipes to most all of my posts, when it comes to these monthly Blog With Friends theme based posts, I've often had to interpret the theme loosely. Often very, very loosely.

But carrots? OK, this is going to be the easiest theme yet.

Or . . . not so much.

See, I've featured carrot recipes on this blog, bunches (so to speak) of times. Pretty much in every way:

With an appetizer: Red Pepper and Spinach Hummus
In soup: Kielbasa Soup, Crockpot or Not
In salad: Layered Thai Shrimp Salad
In a main dish: Shrimp Pot Pie
In a side dish: Pralined Snap Peas and Carrots
In bread: Simple Carrot Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
In cookies: Cinnamon Toffee Carrot Cookies
And, of course, in cake: Carrot Cake

Jeez? What's left? 

Sometimes inspiration comes with a bit of luck and a touch of necessity. As it happens, I was pondering this in the morning, coffee was brewing, Hubs was scrounging for something to eat and College Boy was walking in the door. That's how it came to me. Donuts.

I quickly put together a recipe in my head based on a basic baked donut recipe, what ingredients I had on hand, and what would go with carrots. 

I started by finely chopping the carrots in my food processor and the cinnamon baking chips in a clean coffee grinder. If you don't have cinnamon baking chips, you should look for them wherever you go shopping, I love them, but for this recipe you can just increase the cinnamon in the dough.

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts are studded with carrots, full of cinnamon flavor, and topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #donuts


This is an easy recipe. Mix the dry ingredients, whisk the wet, mix them together briefly, 

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts are studded with carrots, full of cinnamon flavor, and topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #donuts


fill the pans 

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts are studded with carrots, full of cinnamon flavor, and topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #donuts


and bake.

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts are studded with carrots, full of cinnamon flavor, and topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #donuts


I could have chosen any topping for these, something with cream cheese would go beautifully, but I chose a simple cinnamon sugar topping, and I'm glad I did. 

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts are studded with carrots, full of cinnamon flavor, and topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #donuts

Breakfast is served:

Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts are studded with carrots, full of cinnamon flavor, and topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #donuts



As always, any time you make one of my recipes, feel free to post a picture of it to my Baking In A Tornado Facebook Page. I'd love to see it!

Be sure to visit all of this month's other Blog With Friends projects:


Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Carrots | Carrot Muffins by Tamara of Part-time Working Hockey Mom | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


Tamara of Part-time working Hockey Mom shares Carrot Muffins

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Carrots | Apple Carrot Salad by Dawn of Spatulas on Parade | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com 






Dawn of Spatulas on Parade shares her recipe for Apple Carrot Salad


Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Carrots | Make Your Own Scavenger Hunt by Lydia of Cluttered Genius | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com 




Lydia of Cluttered Genius shares Make Your Own Scavenger Hunt

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Carrots | Spreading Easter Joy by Melissa of My Heartfelt Sentiments | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com 





Melissa of My Heartfelt Sentiments shares Spreading Easter Joy

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Carrots | Carrots from the Eyes of a Mischievous Youngster by P. J. of A 'lil HooHaa | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com 






P. J. of A 'lil HooHaa shares Carrots from the Eyes of a Mischievous Youngster.

 
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Baked Cinnamon Carrot Donuts
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Printable Recipe

Ingredients (makes 12 donuts):
1/4 cup cinnamon baking chips, finely ground (I use a clean coffee grinder), if you cannot find cinnamon baking chips, see note in the directions below
1 1/2 cups flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp cinnamon
2/3 cup finely chopped carrots 
1/4 cup milk
3 TBSP butter, melted and cooled slightly
1 egg

6 TBSP butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:
*NOTE: If you cannot find cinnamon baking chips, you can omit but increase the cinnamon in the batter recipe to 1 tsp.
*Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease 12 donut pan cups.
*Mix together the flour, 2/3 cup sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, 1/2 tsp cinnamon (or 1 tsp if not using baking chips) and the ground cinnamon baking chips.
*Whisk together the milk and egg. Add to the flour mixture, along with the carrots and melted butter and mix just until incorporated.
*Spoon evenly into the prepared donut pans. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes, or until the center springs back to the touch and the tops start to brown. Cool in the pans for 5 minutes before removing.
*Mix together the 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon on a plate. Melt the remaining butter in a bowl. Dip the donut tops first in the butter, then in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Allow to set, dipped side up.



24 comments:

  1. Yum! I don't have any cinnamon chips but I might give these a go without them.
    Dawn aka Spatulas On Parade

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    1. Those cinnamon chips are so good in so many things, you should always have some on hand.

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  2. I have never heard of cinnamon baking chips, but the internet is full of DIY tutorials. I am positive I would like your donuts. It' always interesting how and when creative ideas hit you, right?

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    1. You don't need a tutorial, hopefully you can just find them in the baking aisle near the chocolate chips. Hershey makes them and they are SO good. Enjoy!

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  3. I love carrots (something that my grandson and I have in common). He's going to love this idea.

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    1. You definitely have to make these for (or with) him.

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  4. This really sounds good! I think carrots (or zucchini, for that matter) are welcome additions to baked goods, as long as they don't have the gloppy frosting some like to put on such treats. Believe it or not I am not stress baking (or stress eating) which is a little surprising. Working from home, I'm eating less. I'm sure that's just temporary - the eating less part, that is. I just hope I can keep getting out and moving around after work/home - Where the oven is. But I can resist. I think. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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  5. Gas company detected a leak in the system back in March & had to turn off the gas to half the building. Can't WAIT for it to be turned back on so I can join in on the stress baking craze!

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  6. Sounds like something my sister would like

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  7. As usual, these sound so good that i wish i had time to be home and baking. A janitor's work is never done.

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    1. Be safe, I hate to think of you being in and out of homes and buildings at this time.

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  8. Ooh, these sound scrumptious!
    Some of my kids had a hard time with 'carrot chunks' (their words) in things, so I had to get creative.
    When I baked anything 'carrot', I ran the carrots through the juicer. Then mixed the pulp and juice back together.
    It definitely adds colour...

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    1. LOL, yeah, we moms often find ourselves in all kinds of situations where we have to be sneaky . . . I mean creative.

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  9. I always wondered how the donut got the hole. I have never seen a pan made that way. I learned today. I love Carrot Cake and I believe I would love your donuts.

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    1. Nothing like learning new things from reading blogs when you're stuck in the house social distancing.

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  10. You are right, my mind was melting in a sea of Facebook garbage. Every now and then I pay attention and learn.

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  11. I don't often eat donuts anymore ... they do wonders to my blood sugar ... but these sure do sound and look delicious!

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    1. These probably wouldn't be too bad, but you'd have to skip the topping.

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  12. So I'm so goofy, I didn't even realize there were donut pans. This looks delicious!

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    1. I'd be shocked if you weren't the second person to tell me that.

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