Country-style cake donut cookies

Today was another baking day for me and I made cake donut cookies. In case you're wondering, these cookies taste essentially like an old-fashioned glazed cake donut. I made the cookies today in two different shapes: flowers and rectangles. When cutting the shapes for them, I do not measure the rectangular pieces and I do not cut the dough off at the ends of them. They're meant to look handmade and rustic.

Tip:

For my recipe, I use cake flour. If you don't have cake flour, you can make homemade cake flour by removing two tablespoons of all-purpose flour and adding two tablespoons of cornstarch in its place. Do this method, per cup of cake flour needed.

Ingredients:

• 3-½ cups of cake flour

• 1 cup of granulated white Splenda, or white granulated sugar

• 1 teaspoon of yeast

• ¾ cups of milk

• 1 egg

• 1 teaspoon of salt

• 2 tablespoons of butter, softened

• 1 tablespoon of powdered cinnamon

• 1 tablespoon of canola oil, plus a little extra to grease your pans

Instructions:

In a mixing bowl, add your cake flour, Splenda, or sugar, cinnamon, and yeast together; stir to combine well.

Now, add your milk and one egg to the dry flour mixture. Mix by hand, or with a mixer until your dough comes together.

Now, add the salt to your dough. Combine well. Then add the butter and knead your dough for several minutes. Your dough should become soft and pliable at this point. Allow the dough to sit for fifteen minutes.

Transfer your dough to a floured surface. Then roll it out into a half inch thick rectangular shape. Using a knife, cut your dough into rectangle pieces. (Almost like how you'd cut dumplings. I also used flower-shaped cutouts.) 

Grease, or butter, your pans. Now, place your cut out donut cookies on your prepared pans. Allow two and a half inches in between each piece.

Place your pans in a 425 degrees F oven. Bake for eight to twelve minutes. (Eight minutes for soft cake-like cookies, twelve minutes if you prefer crunchy.)

Allow your cake donut cookies to cool on a wire rack and then glaze them.

Simple glaze

I use hot water to create my simple glaze, but you can use milk if you prefer. Plus, you can add butter, or vegetable shortening to the glaze if you want it to be more like an icing (just combine the butter, or vegetable shortening with your powdered sugar before adding the liquid).

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of sugar-free powdered sugar, or regular powdered sugar

• 4-6 tablespoons of hot water (The amount of water depends on how thick you want your glaze to be, so experiment by gradually adding it to the powdered sugar.)

Instructions:

In a bowl, add your powdered sugar. Then pour in the hot water and whisk.