Baked Mini Ring Doughnuts - 50 doughnuts - 1 syn each.

Ingredients:

• Frylight
• 200g wholemeal flour – 32 syns
• 25g sweetener
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 small eggs,
• 100ml skimmed milk – 2 syns
• 3 teaspoons light margarine, melted - 1.5 syns
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons fat free fromage frais

For the topping:

• 3 teaspoons caster sugar – 3 syns
• 3 tablepoons sweetener
• 3 tablespoons cinnamon

38.5 syns for the whole mixture.

Method:

Mix ingredients in a bowl. Pour the mixture into a mini doughnut tray. Place in a pre-heated oven at Gas mark 4 for 20 minutes. Let cool. In a bowl mix the brown sugar and sweetener until there are no lumps. Push the doughnuts out of the tray, spray the doughnuts with frylight and roll in the topping mixture and serve.


Doughnuts were only really available from American soldiers during the war but this recipe is a "half-way house" between the American doughnut and the British sweet fritter. For more memories of doughnuts during the war see the link below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/76/a3958176.shtml