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Biscuit donuts are an easy donut recipe made with canned biscuit dough. Easy canned biscuit donuts are so fun and easy to make.
Happy weekend to you! Weโre about to make it a very happy weekend.
Iโm about to say the two most beautiful words youโve ever heard put together. Are you ready?
Here goes: Easy + Donuts. My crumb donuts are insanely delicious, but have a lot of steps, just so you know. These biscuit donuts do not!
These easy donuts areย a thing you may already know about, but just in case you donโt, we should really really talk about them.
You can fry canned biscuit dough into the best, easiest, and fastest donuts ever. Did you know about biscuit donuts before?
It kinda blew my mind when I found out. It was the early 2000s; I was skipping class to watch The Food Network, and Paula Deen cracked open a can of biscuits and fried them. And I was looking around the room like โdid anyone else just seeeeeee that?!โ The donuts looked so perfect! Like real donut shop donuts! I had to try it.
When my roommate and her boyfriend came home, I was standing at the stove with a hot pot of oil and a chopstick to poke the donuts as they fried. They ate every donut in sight.
I was 92% sure they were high, so I just kept cracking cans and frying biscuits, and switchingย up theย glazes and toppings. The first ones, I rolled in sugar, the next ones in an easy milk + powdered sugar glaze, and on and on. I canโt recall how many cans of dough we went through. Or how many jars of sprinkles.
Canned biscuit donutsโway easier than regular donuts.
I still make these donuts often, because theyโre just so good! And loads easier than actually dealing with yeast and making donuts from scratch.
Remember the chai sugar we made yesterday? Weโre going to use an entire jar to dust these donuts with as soon as they come out of the hot oil. And weโre not going to regret it one bit.
I like a little caffeine on my donuts, donโt you?
Have you seen the newย smaller cans of biscuits at the grocery store? Iโve seen half-size cans of buttermilk biscuits and even a mini can of just 4 crescents! This is proof that small-batch cooking and baking is taking off, friends! I swear to it. So, I grabbed a small can of buttermilk biscuits to make these fried biscuit donuts.
One caveat for biscuit donuts: you must cut the centers out before frying. Trust me, I tried to skip this step (and then stuff the centers with jelly), but it just doesnโt work. Use the bigger end of a frosting piping tip to cut out the centers before frying. (Pro tip: fry the holes, too!)
Biscuit Donuts + Chai Sugar
These easy to make donuts are perfect when you are short on time.
Ingredients
- 1 small can refrigerated buttermilk biscuits (4-6 biscuits/ can)
- 3 1/2 cup frying oil (canola, peanut, or vegetable oil)
- 1/2 cup chai sugar
Instructions
- Pop open the can of biscuits, and use a tool to cut out the centers of each of the biscuits.
- In a deep saucepan, heat the oil to 340-degrees. Keep an eye on the oil, and don't let it get too hot or the donuts will brown too quickly.
- Pour the chai sugar into a shallow bowl and set aside.
- When the oil reaches 340, carefully add two of the biscuits. Fry on the first side until golden brown, about 1 minute. Flip using a chopstick and repeat on the opposite side.
- Fry the remaining biscuits, as well as the donut holes!
- When the donuts come out of the oil, roll them in the chai sugar and serve immediately.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
18Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 389Total Fat: 44gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 39gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 5mgCarbohydrates: 1gFiber: 0gSugar: 0gProtein: 0g
I have fond memories of my friends mom cutting the biscuit dough into chunks and making tons of donut bites on mornings after sleepovers. She would toss them in powdered sugar and they were sooo good.
I hope I can do this with my daughter one day <3
Hi, thanks for this great recipe! I had seen that this was possible but when I tried making them using the cream biscuit recipe from Food 52 and leaving them whole in the center for stuffing I wasnโt so thrilled with the result. Can I ask what your issue was with the uncut ones. Iโll give your method a try and simply cut them in half and spread some pastry cream to eat them like a sweet bagel spread!
Hi Camille (thatโs my daughterโs name!)
If you donโt cut a hole in the center, itโs too thick and they will be raw. The outside will be done before the inside cooks. You can cut them smaller (like you said) or cut a whole in the center. Sorry :( I tried every which way to make it like that, but it wouldnโt work.
Not exactly the same but when I was in Girl Scouts many, many years ago, we took canned biscuits, rolled them into tubes, wound them around sticks, and cooked them over campfires. When done, we slid them off the stick and stuffed them with jelly. Wonderful!
hey girl these look so yummy! This is how my Dad made donuts years ago!
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Itโs mutual :) <3
Wondering if Iโd fail with โgrandsโ biscuits. Iโve only ever used the little ones, when the kids were smallโฆ40-ish yrs. ago.
Just a hint: You can fry them without cutting a hole in the center, the oil will have to be a bit cooler for slower frying.
Good job! Thank you.
I used to work at a BBQ restaurant in college, the bottomless basket of fried biscuits were awesome. It was just fried canned biscuit dough (no holes cut) and people would dip them into honey or BBQ sauce. So good.