glazed lemon & thyme greek yogurt bundt cake.

I like baking but I'm also a lazy baker. I lack patience, which is absolutely essential in Singapore's heat. I don't bake in an air conditioned room which means that whenever I make cupcake frosting or roll out short crust pastry, I have to either a) frost or roll super quickly and do a mediocre job or b) frost a few cupcakes and stick the frosting back into the fridge.

And umm.. I don't have the time or patience for either.

Which is why nowadays I'm trying to go back to basics and relook at simple recipes that are delicious and fuss free without the embellishing them with complicated and overly sweet frosting. 

Cinnamon Sugar Mini Doughnut Muffins.

I do not understand this whole cronut frenzy.

Da Paolo is the only place in Singapore where I can get a pastry that is the closest to a cronut, here they call it the crodo (same thing!). I finally got my hands on one on Sunday morning. Paying $5 was definitely too much for a pastry, and I felt that the whole combination was too sweet and just too much for me.

I may not be trying the original, best one from New York, but from the looks and sounds of it, it can't be that different right?

I like making my own version of pastry/cakes I have tried so that I can do it my way and tune in to my tastes. I'm not a fan of doughnuts because I think they are just round pieces of fried dough... so I decided to make the next best thing - mini doughnut muffins.

They were bite sized, moist and soft with just the right amount of sweetness. Did I mention that it only takes 30 minutes to make this? With that one bite from a cronut, I could probably pop 5 of these in my mouth with the same amount of calories!