Preheat the oven to 190 degrees, 170 degrees fan.

Grease your donut tin.

Using a whisk cream the butter and sugar until smooth.

Add the eggs one at a time, and continue to whisk.

In a jug measure out your milk & vanilla & in a separate bowl measure out your flour, baking powder salt.

Gradually alternate adding the milk mixture & then the flour mixture to your creamed butter/sugar mix whilst continuing to thoroughly whisk.

Add your red food colouring and continue to mix until fully combined & a nice red colour!

Using either a piping bag or by pouring the mixture into a jug, fill each of your greased donut tin shapes to about 2/3 full.

Bake in the preheated oven for no more than 15 minutes.

Once cooked take the tray out of the oven and leave to cool for a few minutes before turning it upside down and gently tapping out the donuts. (They should come out easily)

Leave to fully cool before icing.

The icing is a simple glace icing which is made by mixing icing sugar & a little water together. Make sure you make the icing sugar thick enough, if too thin add a little extra icing sugar & mix.

Drizzle the icing sugar oven the donuts (unless you're a genius a lot will slide off but most of it will soon dry hard)

Straight after putting the icing on the donuts sprinkle the sugar strands over them & leave to harden.

Enjoy!