Fairybread Cake Doughnuts

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Fairybread is originally, sliced white bread topped with 100s and 1000s. It’s a snack served in Australia at kid’s parties. 

When I decided to start a blog, I had no clue how and where to begin. It’s such a steep learning curve that it took me months just sitting in front of my laptop working on a website that I didn’t know if I’d even ever publish or finish. When the Australian government ordered the lockdown of restaurants & pubs, I took the opportunity of being stood down as a professional chef to work on Mrs. Fancy-pants.

I figured, I had to start somewhere and the easiest way–I thought–was to start with social media. I already had active personal social media accounts, and all I had to do was launch Mrs.FancyPants on those social platforms while I continuously work on my website. To be honest, it’s not as easy as I thought. I created a Facebook page, an Instagram account and a YouTube channel, for starters. I might get into Pinterest in the future, but I haven’t decided yet.

 

So imagine how excited I was to see that my Facebook page was gaining a bit of traction and my friends were getting great results from my recipes. It felt very fulfilling, and when I recently reached 1.2K followers on my Facebook page, I thought it would be nice to commemorate the milestone with something colourful and delicious, so I made these cute Fairybread doughnuts.

Now these doughnuts are baked, not fried and they don’t need yeast as well, instead the base is basically a cake. They’re soft, and fluffy and the frosting is delicious, I’m sure you won’t be able to stop at one!

 

This recipe makes 30-32 doughnuts using Wilton doughnut pans as well as 30-32 cupcakes, depending on how much you fill the pans. It’s perfect for a party but could easily be halved for small group consumption.

P.S. I use metric units in most of my recipes but I’ve included US measurements as well for your reference. I’ve tested the recipe using both units of measurement.

 

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Difficulty: Easy Prep Time: 15 Mins Cook Time: 8 Mins Total Time: 23 Mins
This recipe makes 30-32 donuts or cupcakes.

Ingredients

    Doughnut Batter:
    • Buttercream Frosting
    • Toppings

Instructions

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    First make the batter:
  • Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease donut pans.
  • In the bowl of your stand mixer, cream butter and sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Add vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, beating until combined.
  • In a separate bowl, mix flour, cornflour and baking powder. Set aside.
  • Turn mixer to low. Add half the flour, once flour is incorporated add half the yogurt. Mix until incorporated. Repeat with the rest of the flour and yogurt.
  • Pipe into doughnut pan. This mix makes 32 doughnuts. bake for 8 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
    • Buttercream
  • In the bowl of your stand mixer, whip the butter until light and fluffy. Slowly add the sugar to prevent your buttercream from becoming gritty.
  • Once all the sugar is finished, add 2 tbsp of milk then whip until all the sugar has dissolved into the butter. Add more milk to loosen the frosting, if required.
    • Assembly:
  • Place 100s & 1000s or small sprinkle in a shallow & wide bowl.
  • With a small spatula, spread buttercream on the top half of the doughnuts, then dip in the sprinkles until the buttercream is completely covered. Chill for 15 minutes to set buttercream.