How Many Bundts in the Oven?

There was a trend this year in the food blogging world, a trend of "healthier" baked donuts.  I don't want my donuts to be healthy.  I want them to be fried in oil and glazed with sugar and I want them to be spelled "doughnuts."  I also want them to be readily available in my kitchen without the purchase of a specialty "baked donut" pan.  Give me a bottle of canola oil, a pint glass and a shot glass (because I still don't have a doughnut cutter), and a roll of paper towels, and I'm ready to go.

But these baked donut recipes were just so pretty!  They looked so fluffy and light and dainty!  I wanted to bake them and drizzle them with pink icing and plate them on delicate china next to a paisley turquoise napkin.

I came across a mini-bundt pan in a thrift store close to where I work.  I don't even have a regular-sized bundt pan, but I picked up this $2.49 beauty for one reason only - mini-bundt pans look an awful lot like baked donut pans.

Mini Bundt Cake on Grandma's Saucer

These fluffy treats, more cake than doughnut, are perfect as a single serving or a shared treat.  The recipe was inspired by Tracy at www.shutterbean.com.  These cakes were so good, I made them twice in one weekend.