touch the rainbow

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* rainbow donuts *

Yield: 6 donuts 

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 6 tbsp milk
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 3 tbsp vegetable/canola oil
• 4 rectangles of vanilla candiquik
• 1 tbsp vegetable shortening
• Fruity pebbles, sorted by color (you don’t need to sort the entire box)
• Shredded coconut, small amount
• Paint brush, new - never used before

Instructions

Donuts

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a donut pan with cooking spray, use a paper towel to lightly spread/remove excess spray.
2. In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
3. In another bowl combine the milk, egg, vanilla, and oil until well blended. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mix just until combined.
4. Transfer the batter to a large piping bag or use a ziploc bag with one corner cut off. Pipe the batter into the donut pan, filling each donut hole about 2/3 full.
5. Bake the donuts for 10 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let the donuts sit in the pan for 10 minutes before moving them to a wire rack to cool.
6. Remove the donuts from the donut pan and place them on a wire rack to cool.

For the base icing of the donuts

1. Melt the vanilla candiquik with the vegetable shortening in a microwave safe bowl. I like to place the candiquik and vegetable shortening in a small saucepan over low heat and melt the chocolate that way. You could microwave the candiquik and vegetable shortening on 50% power for 2 minutes, stirring every 20-30 seconds, until melted.
2. For dipping the donuts, it's easiest to transfer the melted chocolate to a small shallow dish, but large enough to fit a donut in. While hanging onto the edges of the donut, dip each donut into the chocolate and pause for a few seconds while the donut is upside down to allow to excess to fall off. Allow the donuts to cool on a cooling rack completely before adding the fruity pebbles.

Fruity Pebbles

1. Keep the chocolate warm during this process. The melted chocolate will act as ‘glue’ to hold the fruity pebbles on. Beginning with the red fruity pebbles, paint on a small amount of white chocolate then stick the red pebbles on. Continue this process until all of the red pebbles are on. Repeat with the rest of the colors - orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
2. Once the rainbow is finished, paint on some white chocolate underneath both ends of the rainbow and add the shredded coconut.
3. Enjoy and store the extras in an air tight container. 

yum

Alexandra