Gianna Pollero’s Monster Doughnuts will be publishing on the 15th of April! Illustrated by Sarah Horne, this fun-tastic book is filled with adventure, sweets and monsters. You get to follow Grace on a-glaze-ing adventure, as she faces her biggest challenge yet, Mr. Harris, a people-eating, doughnut-loving cyclops!
Monster Doughnuts is the first book of the series, and is perfect for anyone from 5-12 years old!
My husband loves chocolate so much that on our honeymoon we went to Cadbury World in Birmingham. He also pinched all the samples they gave me there. My long time valentine wanted something sweet so: Doughnuts Preheat oven to 350C 2 cups Spelt flour (use whatever you’re cool with) 2 tsp baking powder Pinch of sea salt 1 cup sugar (I used a mix of ¾ cup coconut sugar and ¼ white sugar that was left over from making candied lemon peel) 2 Tbs butter ( I used the vegan butter I made a few posts back) 1 tsp vanilla 1 ¼ cup of almond milk 3 Tbs of cocoa powder (optional) Put the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and mix thoroughly. Melt your butter and and then pour into your almond milk and add the vanilla. Mix well. Add this almond milk mixture to your dry ingredients. Combine well to ensure all ingredients are mixed well but don’t over do it. I then halved the mixture to make half of the doughnuts chocolate. I added 3 heaping table spoons of sifted Fry’s cocoa powder (aka Cadbury’s) and mixed it in thoroughly. Spray your doughnut pans with coconut oil (or use butter to grease them) Fill the the pans 2/3 full and bake for 10 to 12 mins. rotating the pans halfway through the baking. They are done when they start to brown slightly at the edges. Cool for a minute uses them remove them to a cooling rack. Icing: 1 cup powdered sugar 2 Tbs butter (softened) 1 Tbs almond milk Combine all together mixing till smooth. You may have to add a bit more milk depending. For chocolate icing: 1 avocado mashed 1 heaping Tbs of cocoa (again Fry’s) ¼ cup of coconut sugar. Mix all together well till fully incorporated. You may want to use more sugar depending on your taste. Decorate your doughnuts with what you want and enjoy fully and lovingly. Love valentines doughnuts ( I’m Canadian )
If you’re going to open a late-night donut shop, you’re going to need a unique set of over-the-top donuts to set the proper festive atmosphere. But how to keep the ideas coming?
I decided to see what donut ideas I could get using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating models. I collected seven of the weirdest donuts and descriptions I could find (such as a pizza donut, or a dirt-themed donut), and presented them as a list for the AI to complete. I’ve drawn a few of the best donuts it added to the list.
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[human illustrations of some of the ai-generated donuts below]
When I say I used “GPT-3” for this project it’s hard to be exact about it, because OpenAI often updates the models. The newest GPT-3 versions (as of May 2022) actually did the worst at this task - they kept presenting me with real donuts that they’d seen during their online training, and not even particularly weird donuts. They were trying to match what was most common online, not what I was asking for. But the original early-2020 GPT-3 models were more willing to deliver the weirdness. Here are some more of my favorite results from the various models!
The biggest model, DaVinci
Violet Beauregarde - A lemon glazed donut with blue raspberry eyes and a raspberry center The Candleberry Flu - A chocolate doughnut filled inside with ganache plus a dripping candle on top that’s dripping liquid sediments Brick of Yum - A glazed doughnut sandwiching American cheese, with red pepper jelly inside The Confusatron - A doughnut sliced into three layers - vanilla, coconut, and chocolate, dipped in chocolate ganache and topped with sugar pearls that look like circuit boards The Purple Stuff - Chocolate, oreo, and purple stuff sprinkled with powdered sugar
Curie, the second-largest model
Heckleberry - A strawberry donut smothered with blueberry syrup and crushed vegan Crunchies Donut of Doom - Rainbow donut filled with Frosted Flakes, black sprinkles, and sour candy The Alligator Rising - A spiral donut, frosted with chocolate and filled with a filling of chocolate hard-boiled egg and green apple slices Hell Raisin - A jelly donut with a filling of peanut butter and hot dogs Dark Crystal - A donut filled with candy corn and white chocolate chips I ♥ My Gay Ex - A rainbow Jell-O donut with white frosting, red sugar sprinkles, and pink glitter Fish N’ Chips – Topped with chocolate and tangy tempura-flavoured icing
Babbage, the second-smallest model
Mr Crepe - Topped with tapioca pudding, green sprinkles Little Red Apples - Topped with pumpkin bread crumbs and small red apples Chalkista - Stationary donut with chalk dusting Horns - Cupcake gripped in both of the animal’s horns Julius Rooms - A pair of bottomless donuts Doughnut Forest - A profusion of donuts spread throughout the French Quarter Flintlock fennec - bacon, fried okra, and burnt thermochromic alcohol Baffle - cocoa powder, giraffes, and vanilla wafers
Ada, the smallest and definitely weirdest model
Bath Roll - Three donuts melted hot on one side Friar Flats - Topped with tomatoes, honey, red paint and ceramic chili caps Ponder Owls - magical, yellow-feathered donuts covered in icing with puffiness and shine By Soul - filled with firecrackers, black bean dip, red pepper syrup, and watermelon Coconut Fun - Sulphure hasn’t been wiped off, a demon cake filled with coconut cream and pistachios Blood Donut - Creamy moist donut topped with spoonfuls of delicious blood Goofy Trick - the elephant, is a clown and it’s all about tossing treats into his skull Spankin’- Other-colored donut with a frying pan in the middle
This is the last week they are at their current pitch so the vegan dude and I stocked up. I went for the salad box, he went for the sub - they are filled with “Soy, Tamarind + Ginger Marinated Tempeh, Vegan Kimchi with Black Sesame Seeds, Rice Noodle Salad with Lime + Mango, Korean Style Spinach with Sesame + Doenjang, Spicy Beansprout Salad and Gochujang Mayonnaise,” and the doughnuts are peanut butter and jam filled, chocolate, classic jam filled and lemon curd filled. All very filling and as always, delicious!!!
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