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Try my Canadian doughnuts – delicious pieces of cinnamon-sugared, deep-fried dough served with delicious toppings like peanut butter and raspberries. These doughnuts, shaped like a beaver’s tail, are a\u00a0 highly addictive guilty pleasure. A fun, homemade festival\u00a0food to share with your loved ones!\u00a0{Sponsored Post}<\/em><\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by The Wild Mountain Music Festival\u00a0<\/a><\/em>, meaning that I was compensated monetarily and provided with free passes, including a giveaway for my readers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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When I first arrived in Canada, we went on one road trip after another so that I could get a decent introduction to my new home. My husband went all out and even insisted on re-creating playlists of the music he would listen to in the car while his family would drive cross-country to visit relatives every summer in the 90’s. This was also my introduction to Tom Cochrane in general, and “Life is a Highway” in particular.\u00a0 So you can guess just how excited we were to find out that Mr. Cochrane is gonna make an appearance on this year’s Wild Mountain Music Festival<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What is the Wild Mountain Music Festival and why should I go?<\/h3>\n

Let’s talk about the setting first! I have been to a lot of music festivals but Wild Mountain<\/a> is top of the list in terms of location and atmosphere! The festival is right outside the town of Hinton, in the scenic Alberta Northern Rockies. Everyone likes music with a view and here you get one of Alberta’s best: the mountains of Jasper National Park.<\/p>\n

And what do I do with the kids? The answer is: You take them with you! Wild Mountain is incredibly family-friendly! There is a kids’ area where they can make crafts and interact in drop-in programming – all to the soundtrack of the ongoing festival.<\/p>\n

This year’s line-up is incredible and there’ll be something for everyone: Tom Cochrane with Red Rider, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Matt Mays, William Prince, Fred Penner and many more ( click here<\/a> for the line-up)! While we love to see all the famous acts live on stage, we also enjoy discovering new artists that so often turn into real favorites.<\/p>\n

Wild Mountain Music Festival is clearly the perfect way to spend a sunny July weekend! Tickets<\/strong> are available here<\/a>\u00a0plus you can enter into my giveaway lottery and win\u00a0a free weekend pass<\/strong>! Scroll down for more information!<\/p>\n

Music Festivals: Peace, love….and doughnuts!<\/h3>\n

For us, another big reason to go to any outdoor festival is to enjoy some festival food! With food line-ups just as good as musical ones, the choices nowadays are endless. However, for nostalgic reasons, we tend to go for the classics: doughnuts. Outdoor festivals and doughnuts go hand-in-hand and while we normally opt for healthy snacks in our day-to-day, we really cannot imagine any outdoor music festival without our favorite festival food: the Canadian Doughnut!\u00a0 And while perhaps I can’t take Matt Mays home with me to re-live the experience, I\u00a0can<\/em> whip up a batch of these doughnuts at home to carry me back to this wonderful weekend in the Rockies.<\/p>\n

What is a Canadian Doughnut?<\/h3>\n

Shaped like the tail of Canada’s official, unofficial mascot – the mighty beaver – the Canadian doughnut is a fried, sweet pastry dusted in cinnamon sugar and often served with decadent toppings. The beaver doughnut is a true Canadian institution and only shares the pedestal with other truly iconic Canadian foods such as poutine or the butter tart.<\/p>\n

The beginnings of this beaver’s tail-shaped doughnut can be traced back to the early 19th century when aboriginals would\u00a0cook beaver tails over\u00a0an open fire until their skin cracked and would give way to\u00a0the meat inside.\u00a0Taking this traditional method as an inspiration, early settlers began to cook their bread in the same way. Word has it, that a German-Canadian granny came up with the sweet version a bit later. She would make the sweet bread for breakfast and top it with cinnamon sugar and breakfast-y stuff like butter,\u00a0 jam, and honey. Indeed, it really reminds me of the cinnamon sugar dusted Bavarian Doughnut, I grew up with. We call them “Ausgezogene”, meaning, the naked one (fem.). Naughty.<\/p>\n

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Canadian Doughnuts\u00a0are easy to make and highly addictive!<\/h3>\n

Now, yeasted dough always sounds a bit complicated but really, it’s not! Your stand mixer is going to do all the work! Just make sure to :<\/p>\n