Happy Fastnacht Day!

Happy Fat Tuesday...or Shrove Tuesday...or Fastnacht Day!

We call it Fastnacht Day around here due to our Pennsylvania Dutch (German) heritage.  What a tasty tradition to introduce to the kids!

We did make doughnuts two years ago, but somehow Fastnacht Day sneaked up on us last year and we missed it.  Not so this year!  Today we used an old family recipe and fried up some glazed fastnachts to celebrate the beginning of Lent.

Ok, we don't necessarily observe Lent in the traditional ways here.  But doughnuts are tasty anytime, so why not?

The ingredients are common (we substituted rice milk for milk due to Luke's milk allergy):

I had an eager, little helper, too.  She wanted to do everything; she got to help make the dough, cut out some doughnuts, and then dip them in glaze.

 Fry 'em up!

 Cool 'em down.

Time for some glaze...

CAUGHT!

This girl had to make numerous trips to wash her hands because she just couldn't resist licking the glaze from her fingers.

Cooling...

 Another helper...

 More dipping...

...and more dipping.

 And then there was the mess...somehow everybody else disappeared at that point.

 Time for taste-testing!!

Yum.  Glad there are leftovers!