FOOD
Flamingo Floatie Donuts
Let me float this delicious idea by you: flamingo pool floatie donuts!
FOOD
Flamingo Floatie Donuts
Let me float this delicious idea by you: flamingo pool floatie donuts!
Ingredients
- Cake
- 429g all-purpose flour
- 265g caster (superfine) sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 125g unsalted butter, softened
- 2 large eggs
- 375ml of milk
- 125ml vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp Greek yogurt
- 1 tsp pineapple flavouring
- 2 drops teal food gel
- Decorations
- 300g pink candy melts, melted
- 12 yellow mini m&m candies
- 50g dark chocolate, melted
- 500g pink fondant
Steps
- Necks, wings and tails.
- To make the tails and wings, roll out some fondant to about 1cm thick. Use a 3cm round cookie cutter to cut out 36 circles. Use your fingers to pinch one side of the circles.
- To make the necks roll out a ball of fondant about the size of a teaspoon and then roll out into a log about 10cm in length. Shaped into a question mark shape and allow to dry for 4 hours.
- Add some melted dark chocolate to the tip of the fondant shape and allow to set.
- Use the small yellow candies to make an indent into the tops of the shape, add some dark chocolate and stick the yellow candy to the fondant. Set aside.
- Cake
- Preheat a fan-forced oven to 140C (280F) or 160C (320F) for a conventional oven. Spray a cake donut tin with oil and set aside.
- Add the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt to a large mixing bowl and mix together using a hand mixer to combine.
- Next add the softened butter and mix on low speed until mixture reaches a crumbly sand like texture.
- Add the eggs, milk, oil, Greek yogurt and pineapple flavouring. Mix on low speed until no dry ingredients are showing. Scrape down the bowl and mix for a final 20 seconds. Add the teal food gel and set aside.
- Add the batter to a piping bag and pipe into the donuts tray filling each hole just above half way. Bake for 20 minutes and allow to cool completely.
- Dip the tops of the donuts into melted pink candy melts. Stick two wings to each side of the donut and a wing shape on the back of the donut for the tail.
- Stick the necks in some melted pink candy melts and stick to the top of the donuts to finish.