RECIPE: DONUT CAKE

 This cake may look insane and tricky, but it's the EASIEST cake you could make! Decadent? Yes. Delicious? Yes. Difficult? NOT AT ALL!

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Buy a store bought cake or make one from a box... normally I'd say absolutely not, but when you're going to cover it with donuts, you might as well. I made this one with an angel food cake box mix since that's my mom's fav and it was her birthday!

2. Buy plain or glazed donuts in regular and mini sizes from the store. Donut holes would have been really cute, but they didn't have any that day. The minis were from a Hostess bag!

3. Make the glaze (recipe below). I divided the glaze up into three bowls and tinted them with food coloring. 

4. Pour the glaze just on top of the cake and let the sides drip down. Top with sprinkles and let dry.

5. Dip the tops of the donuts in the glaze and top with sprinkles and let dry.

6. Pile up the donuts on top of the cake and secure with tooth picks. That's it.

GLAZE RECIPE:

2 cups powdered sugar

2 tbsp butter, very soft

1 tsp vanilla

1 tbps hot milk

Mix all together. If the glaze is too thick to be drippy, add a little more milk. If it's too runny, add more powdered sugar. Divide the glaze into three bowls with a little more glaze in the color you'll use for the cake. The glaze dries pretty quickly so make sure to cover with saran wrap pressed to the top if you make ahead of time.

This is a great glaze for frosting sugar cookies too!

This would be so yummy with a chocolate ganache or caramel or peanut butter... yum the list goes on!

ENJOY!

-L