Pinterest Success!

I love Pinterest but most of my attempts at things seen on there are fails. However, this morning, a nice sunny Sunday morning off, I decided to attempt 'donuts'.
It worked!!! And not only tasted great- but looked yummy too! I got so excited that things were working that I developed another 'donut'. A beignet!
I have not seen theses on Pinterest yet so I will officially be starting a new trend ;-) Here is a photo line up of what is needed and how to do...
I forgot to take a picture of the Pillsbury biscuits I used- 1 tube.

Pan with canola oil or similar- heated on medium until a flick of water sizzles

Cut biscuits in to 4 pieces and drop in fryer. They only take a minute or so and I flipped them to get both sides browned.

Then I used a slit spoon to remove and place on a paper towel covered plate for a quick minute before tossing in cinnamon sugar or covering in powdered sugar.





Oh. My. Gosh.

Pinterest Fail!

Hi my name is D and I'm addicted to Pinterest. Hi D. Like most of you I'm sure, I was introduced to the fantastic website that has become a black hole of time! Anything you could imagine is on there- total eye candy! I could spend hours looking at everyone's pins and letting my mind skip and dance from thought to thought. With my daughter's birthday rapidly approaching I thought I could find some awesome ideas for cupcakes to bake. I did. Super cute watermelon cupcakes that looked relatively easy to do. I thought it would make her and our guests swoon. Very 'Pinteresty' as I say. Well... Pinterest Fail!
After over baking the cupcakes a bit, I figured the cute frosting and chocolate chips would mask that. Then the fantastic idea to make green icing, put it in a pastry bag and swirl the tops sounded reasonable. The bottom corner with the fittings decided to clog and as any normal human would do, I squeezed harder. What proceeded to happen was the bottom blew out! Leaving large blobs of green frosting slipping off the cupcake tops. Panic. Then, my sister- in - law came to rescue. She is a perfect type A personality- read patient. When she swooped in the spread the tops and fix blobs, I happily kept squirting the ghostbuster-esq frosting. Until, I noticed that I had been slimed too! Yuck! Guests arriving, green frosting running down my shirt and cabinets. AWESOME! In my rush to get the clog out and Hercules style strength bounding, not only did the clog come out,but so did the top of the bag! Check out these pictures. Hahaha. Do I need to say that guests nicely asked, "What are these suppose to be?"