Today we were busy baking and making. With Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller as our inspiration we filled our tummies with yummy doughnuts.
We used 101 Cookbook's recipe for baked doughnuts. They were (yes we ate the whole 1 1/2 dozen YIKES) delicious. I would like to believe they were healthy since they were baked---but they were dipped in butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar. We were able to make the entire recipe in the food processor. This makes quick time of the kneading (we counted to 45 slowly and it was done).
And so you don't think we are only about weapons around here, we made felt doughnuts too. My eleven year old was amazing with his needle and his sister was thrilled to have some new play food.
First we cut out our felt circles. You may use our template if you like.
Sew the frosting to one of the doughnut pieces.
My son then sewed "sprinkles" all over the "frosting" with embroidery thread.
With right sides together sew doughnut pieces together, leaving an opening for turning
Turn doughnut right side out.
Stitch completely around the center of the doughnut. We found this easiest to do on the sewing machine. Stay as close to the edge as possible, catching the top and bottom layers.
Stuff doughnut and slip stitch dounut closed!
Ta Da!
We hope you will consider reading along with us to Reed to Feed! This funny and superfluous story gave me pause. As we are reading and eating I am reminded of how lucky we are to have an abundance of food. We can "play" with our food. This it not the case for so many. As a world population over 800 million people will go hungry today.
Seriously, those made me hungry. The felt ones!
so cute.
Arnie the doughnut was good, but a better book about doughnuts is Mark Alan Stamaty’s Who Needs Donuts? The artwork is amazing and the story is very sweet.
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Okay, do I have THE cutest niece and nephews or what?! — and the donuts were yummy! And that felt donut — that is the way I should enjoy them! Love this!
I LOVE the felt donuts! Thanks for the idea!
Super cute felt doughnuts!!! I can’t wait to make a few. Thanks for the pattern.
Beautiful tutorial and lovely blog.
How creative you are!! This looks delicious haha… Maybe you can make cake felt or pie felt ^^
I have missed popping in here! What a lovely post! Come by and visit when you can! Lot’s of hugs!
Robyn
hi Cindy,
I saw ur question over microkid.net for the “permalinks-moved-permanently” plugin.
What i could suggest is to put a redirect code at your main page, mean that any visitor access skiptomylou.wordpress.com will redirect the traffic to your own domain name.
but for the subdomain, or any article in ur current blog, I still no idea how to redirect the traffic yet
I am not a pro, just few year experience over blogging. If you need any discussion, I would happy to share my idea, you can contact me via my email
Regards
Calvyn
Jessica Seinfeld’s cookbook actually has a really yummy and HEALTHY little baked doughnut recipe!
Amazing, that felt donut is! I’m SO inspired to make a whole batch for my daughters and nieces for Christmas. A slow project, yes, but just about the right pace with an infant and two little kids to entertain! Thank you for sharing the template! Am slowly, slowly setting up my own blog of crafty things and will post pictures and tell everyone about your original felt donut and how it began a whole new crafty addiction for me!
Wow, thanks for the tutorial. I think my daughters would love the felt donuts if I could bungle my way to make them. Your statement about how people don’t even have food struck a chord with me. I think that’s why I feel guilty about buying organic products and expensive toys because so many people can’t afford it, not to mention even have running water. Though many organic companies do support fair trade…
These are soooo cute. I want one for each of my littles for church and I want to donate them to the domestic violence shelter and amybe our church should have some for visting children…
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I plan on making these felt donuts with my kids. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for the link. Love your pattern. And the embroidery. I’ll have to give these a try.
Thanks so much for sharing,, I have to make a bakers dozen.. without the calories,, YIPPEEE
Wow thanks to you and your pattern I made a fabulous Christmas gift for my niece. http://www.flickr.com/photos/arabellabenson/3126415387/in/photostream/
Thanks so much!
Hi Cindy, thank you again for the fabulous idea and pattern. I left a comment here on this post half a year ago and am back to link you to the crazy thing I did with your doughnut idea.
Here it is:
http://ikatbag.blogspot.com/2008/12/donut-shop-on-go.html
Have a wonderful new year!
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Oh my goodness! This donut looks like the logo for my web-site, how exciting! Great tutorial : )
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LOVE THESE FELTIES! I made these for my daughter’s play kitchen (along with sunny-side up eggs, strawberries, and a pretzel). They came out so great I realized it would be a great project for my Home and Consumer Sciences students. I am now doing the strawberries and donuts with my class and they love them (if you use pink frosting they look very Simpsonesque). I then had another teacher ask me for the directions because she thought they’d be great pin cushions. You idea has really traveled. Thank you so much- you’re in my Favorites.
These are awesome. I have made some more labor-intensive hand stitched donuts, but there are never enough. I can see myself making a dozen (or two…) of these. Thanks for the tutorial!
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Another great and fun one!
I’m all over these – off to Michael’s this weekend for some felt…
Thanks!
This doughnuts looks delicious. Thanks for the pattern…. ^o^
I think these are adorable, and plan on making them for my daughters first birthday…this would make a great ring toss game too!
LOVE IT.
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Great tutorial I made this and became addicted to felt food making I am currently making a felt cherry pie from the free pattern on http://americanfeltandcraft.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/can-she-bake-a-cherry-pie-free-felt-food-tutorial-cherry-pie/
Just thought I would pass it along to all you other addicts!
[...] this last three day weekend. I got Elvis some donuts made for his play kitchen thanks to the great tutorial on Skip to my Lou and have found out how much fun it is to sew felt! I think I might be in trouble [...]
finally made one… more to come! thanks for the tutorial.
http://fionacupcake.blogspot.com/2009/10/doughnut.html