I'm doing something wrong while trying to PARENT an object together I'm doing something wrong while trying to PARENT an object together.

I'm not sure I'm following the steps correctly.

Note the "dotted" string seems still attached to between the Icing &amp; Donut still after "parenting".

Hope someone can solve this problem.

Thanks hugely and regards in advance.

Mike
Apply transformations to both the objects 
Select the child object then the parent object, ctrl+p ("keep transform" - this maintains distance between objects)