Hot Fresh Now

My patio table, under about an inch of ice

If you have watched the news in the last few days you might have heard something about a snow/ice storm that hit and paralyzed the South.  Yes, make all the jokes you want but Southerners do NOT know how to drive on snow and it is for our own safety that a state of emergency is declared (no shit, they really did!) and school is canceled and the library where I work is shut down and YAY SNOW DAY.

Except there really was no snow for us.  Just ice.  Lots and lots of ice.  Yucky ice.

Blaine, "tasting" the snow/ice

 So, the dreams of building a snowman and having a snowball fight in the 4 to 6 inches we were supposed to get went out the window.  Monday morning, with no school and no work and no snow to play in, the kids and I were pretty much trapped at home.  And then Blaine said "hey, you know what would be great on a cold, cold day like today?  A Krispy Kreme Hot Fresh Now Donut!  Can we go get some?"  After explaining to Blaine that driving on the inch or so of ice would undoubtedly land us in the ER, I fired up the computer and a few Google hits later, had a Krispy Kreme taste-alike recipe.  Instead of going out and braving the roads for a Hot Fresh Now, we just made them ourselves.  And they were pretty damn awesome.

Sous Chefs

Blaine is an awesome donut roller

Cutting them out

The first few were huge, so we downsized our cutter

Lots of glazing and tasting going on here

Woks - not just for stir fry!

Sugar Rush

He declared them delicious