Vanilla Bean Cakes with Cherry Swiss Meringue Buttercream

I talked a lot in the last post about the lovely fresh produce summer brings. Here is another example of that produce - these lovely, flavoursome, juicy cherries. I must admit most of these were eaten before I decided to use them to make cherry Swiss Meringue buttercream to top these lovely moist, light and fluffy vanilla bean cakes.

Vanilla Bean Baked Donuts with Raspberry Icing to Kick off DONUT WEEK 2013!!!

OK so I discovered that Donut Week is the 11th - 18th May this year (maybe every year who knows) a while ago and have been obsessing about donuts ever since. I am so excited to share what I think is the best thing I have ever baked with you - so excited that I am writing this post early and queuing it!

The beauty of this pink sparkly tasty treat is that it looks fabulous but is SO simple to make. This Vanilla Bean Baked Donut is so moist and chewy and everything a donut should be, yet it is baked... and therefore... drum roll please... a healthy donut. (I realise I am quite late jumping on the baked donut band wagon but if you've ever tried to buy a donut pan in the UK that doesn't involve mail ordering from the US you'd understand why) Actually, what makes this recipe healthy is the 50g of Greek yoghurt that goes into it and the amount of butter that has NOT gone into it - there is a mere 15g of butter in this recipe!