Peanut Buttercream!

Here are some pictures of my most recent doughnut...

These are a peanut buttercream filled doughnut with a chocolate ganache on top and they were very delicious!

Next Doughnut

I have picked up all of the ingredients for my next doughnut. It will be a peanut buttercream filled doughnut with a chocolate ganache on top...I have never made ganache before but it seems simple enough. Pictures to come very early Sunday morning.

Plans so far

Well I have some more doughnut ideas to try out, I have only made one of our 23 doughnut ideas we brainstormed while working. I'm thinking the next one I'll try is a peanut butter cream doughnut and then do my twist of a Boston cream doughnut. I like being creative, especially with food. I have worked in kitchens my whole working life, I want to be able to share my love of good food with others and opening my own shop is the best way to come up with new ideas to do that. I have no professional training and everything I do is through trial and error. I had some rave reviews from family and friends about my first yeast doughnut attempt and hopefully soon I can here what others think of my concoctions. The funniest part about all of this is it all spawned from a conversation one night at work that was a bout a funny name for a doughnut shop and that turned into coming up with doughnut ideas another night. That then led to putting pen to paper and writing down all of our ideas, no matter how out there, they are worth trying. I then took it upon myself to start making doughnuts, I think that if I can make the doughnuts and come up with the recipes, then I will be able to teach my future cohorts how to do the same. It's a long shot, but I think it is achievable.

Well I made some doughnuts...

Well I made some doughnuts today, this was my first attempt at a yeast doughnut...they turned out Effin awesome! Here are some pictures of them...

 

 

 

Those are a concoction I thought up...not really they are cookies and cream doughnuts and they turned out better then I imagined they would.

 

Ahoy Hoy

Well, I am new to this...stuff. I have been contemplating opening a small business of sorts with a couple coworkers/friends/crazed lunatics for thinking of opening a small business in New York.... A doughnut shop, or is it donut shop?...dooooo-nut! This is just a way for me to kick this idea off the cliff and see where it lands. The best part is I have no experience making doughnuts (except for the most basic of doughnuts, the simple plain cake doughnut) and neither do the others involved. We are just three guys who really like doughnuts and think that we can do a better job at making them than the major chains in the area. So with that being said I think we have some good ideas and I am currently testing some doughnut ideas...the simpler ones. Pictures to come....soon...ish.