When it comes to wedding party favors, we are not the biggest fans unless of course those favors are warm, homemade donuts. Nothing tastes better after an evening of celebration and dancing than fried dough! So this is exactly what we did at a wedding in Palm Springs this month and they were a huge hit!
Shelley Beals, of The Fry Girl (www.thefrygirlinc.com), brought her entire donut making machine to the event giving guests delicious, steaming, freshly made-to-order donuts sprinkled with chocolate, cinnamon or powdered sugar. The donuts were put in cute to-go bags that we customized with the wedding logo. This made the donuts easy to eat on the spot, or seal and take home for a treat in the morning.
We liked the idea so much that we decided to try our hand at making them ourselves. We used Alton Brown’s recipe:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/yeast-doughnuts-recipe/index.html
You can sprinkle them with powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar or glaze them using this chocolate glaze recipe:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/yeast-doughnuts-recipe/index.html
*Photos by Heather Kincaid
Try them for yourself and send us your thoughts!