{"id":6842,"date":"2024-12-18T03:41:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/mini-donut-maker-machine-candle-making-kit\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T03:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:41:58","slug":"mini-donut-maker-machine-candle-making-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/mini-donut-maker-machine-candle-making-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Donut Maker machine; Candle making kit;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Dash Mini Donut Maker arrived and I&#8217;ve used it once.<\/p>\n<p>I think the machine is a very good thing. It&#8217;s easy to clean. It heats up fairly fast. You have to open it and flip the donuts after about a minute and a half, but there&#8217;s not a lot of steam or a blast of heat. It&#8217;s not intended for children or clumsy people to use, but if you&#8217;re careful it won&#8217;t burn you. It works well.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe directions&#8230; eh. The plain donut recipe made a <em>super<\/em> dense donut. And the chocolate donut recipe has a printing problem and doesn&#8217;t tell how many cups of cocoa should be used. So the included recipes are not to be relied upon.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m going to make boxed cake mix donuts. From all the reviews, the donut maker is great for cooking cake mix. And later (after buying groceries) I&#8217;m going to try a fudge brownie mix, Jiffy muffin mix, cornbread mix, banana bread mix, etc. I&#8217;ve even considered how I could make mini-bagels in it.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah. I like the mini donut maker. I&#8217;m glad to add it to my larger collection of Dash mini-maker appliances. The only problem with it is the included recipes, which means having to search the Internet for a recipe I like.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas I&#8217;ve had:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Strawberry shortcake&quot;<\/strong> &#8212; The center &quot;holes&quot; don&#8217;t cut all the way through. There&#8217;s a thin middle section that remains. So I can make a yellow cake or angel food cake donut and use it as the base for a strawberry shortcake-type desert.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ice Cream Cake<\/strong> &#8212; I can make a bunch of cake donuts and use them to line the bottom of a pan, then drizzle with that ice cream sauce that makes a &quot;hard&quot; shell, then layer ice cream, whipped cream, and cut fruit. Or just make multiple layers of cake donuts, ice cream shell sauce, ice cream, donuts, and sauce. I like ice cream cake, so being able to make an &quot;ice cream donut cake&quot; could be delicious fun.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&quot;Cheesy Bread&quot;<\/strong> &#8212; Probably make a bread or biscuit dough that I form into a strip that I can fold around some cheese and maybe some cooked sausage or cooked bits of bacon. Then I can take the roll of filled dough and cut off pieces to fit in the maker&#8217;s donut holes, pinching the ends together. It <em>should<\/em> make a bread ring that can then be dipped in butter or a butter-garlic sauce.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&quot;Pizza Dippers&quot;<\/strong> &#8212; The same idea as the Cheesy Bread, but putting pizza cheese and pepperoni or other pizza toppings inside. Then after they&#8217;re cooked the pizza dippers can be dipped into marinara sauce (I just use spaghetti sauce) with or without being brushed with melted butter and sprinkled with a mixture of parmesan, garlic, and salt first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&quot;Crab Cakes&quot;<\/strong> &#8212; I don&#8217;t know what donut shaped crab cakes or tuna fish cakes will be like, but it&#8217;s fun to experiment. And since I&#8217;d be using canned crab or tuna fish, there&#8217;s no worry that they would be undercooked, Like, I don&#8217;t know if I would use the donut maker to make donut-shaped meatballs\/meat loaf bites. But I know that some people make crab cakes in their waffle makers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I look at the donut maker and there&#8217;s a lot of possibility.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been going a bit hard at the Amazon Vine requests, but it&#8217;s mostly been things I have always wanted or that I need. And yeah, a few things just for myself, like the diamond art kits I got. But mostly not a bunch of junk that&#8217;s going to clutter the house.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  (Amazon list: &quot;I got that&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0\/list\/2N4YMQNTQSBKN\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0\/list\/2N4YMQNTQSBKN<\/a>)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing I got that I&#8217;ve always been curious about is a candle making kit. But it&#8217;s never been a priority item, so I&#8217;ve never gotten one.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p>I got a candle making kit to review, and though I haven&#8217;t used it yet, I opened the box and saw that there&#8217;s everything I need to start out. A wax melter, 8 bags of wax beads, 8 jars, wicks and their little stickers, wax dye cubes, essential oils, and dried flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The included directions aren&#8217;t the best, but the kit comes everything I think I need to start out with. At this point, I just want to know if candle making is something I&#8217;ll like doing. Like, I&#8217;ve always liked the idea of the little fondue pots that are heated with tealight candles. And if I have my own electric wax melter, I can refill metal tealight candle tins and it&#8217;s not a waste.<\/p>\n<p>The kit includes essential oils, which I&#8217;m not sure about. There are <em>so many<\/em> essential oils that are a hazard toward a cat&#8217;s health. So any candles I make for my own use are likely going to be unscented. But maybe I&#8217;ll get into making and gifting candles to other people.<\/p>\n<p>I think the big candles that are different scents as they burn down are a lot of fun. It&#8217;s just I don&#8217;t want to make a candle that becomes stinky as the melted wax of one scent mixes with another.<\/p>\n<p>~Harper Kingsley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0\">https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\">https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kimichee.com\">https:\/\/kimichee.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social\">https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dash Mini Donut Maker arrived and I&#8217;ve used it once. I think the machine is a very good thing. It&#8217;s easy to clean. It heats up fairly fast. You have to open it and flip the donuts after about a minute and a half, but there&#8217;s not a lot of steam or a blast&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/mini-donut-maker-machine-candle-making-kit\/\" title=\"Mini Donut Maker machine; Candle making kit;\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mini Donut Maker machine; Candle making kit;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Mm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7034,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/thinking-about-making-donuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":6842,"position":0},"title":"Thinking about making donuts","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"November 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I made some congee for the first time. 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