Recipe: Jam Donut Cupcakes Recipe »
I had rather specific taste when I was young. None of this high falutin' stuff that I like now. Like most children the idea of eating most food, especially seafood, was grotesque. I recall when my older cousin got married, they served us large tempura battered prawns at the pre-wedding dinner and I proceeded to eat the batter off the prawns and left the huge prawn behind much to the clucking and disgust of the adults who thought that it was frightfully wasteful.
When I was young, my favourite donut ever was the Strawberry Jam donut, and the frozen Herbert Adams ones were my favourites (do they still even make them?). Like a lot of parents, mine didn't really listen when I told them what I wanted and every time I'd get a cinnamon and sugar donut which I'd never eat leaving me pining for a soft strawberry centered donut instead of the boring one with the hole in the middle. I'd also devour Bubble O'Bill ice creams and Twisters like the world would end the next day (and to a kid what did we know? It could have).
My friend Kathy in the US sent me the link to this from the Taste.com.au website as she had just made them and I was instantly smitten. So was my husband - when he first moved to Sydney before I met him, he'd eat a dozen donuts for dinner working the night shift at a website development company. Either that or a whole tub of yogurt. So it wasn't hard to persuade him to take a trip down memory lane with me - for me it was back to when I was 6 years old and for him, 20 years old. I even brought some over to visit my food blogger friend Christie from Fig & Cherry one afternoon. These are deliciously addictive and beautifully soft, the cinnamon sugar instantly transporting back to a time when getting the donut flavour that you wanted was the most important thing in your life.
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