How To Make Homemade Doughnuts
How about if I told you that you could make these Homemade Doughnuts real quick, serving them warm and golden to your family, with no knowledge whatsoever of yeast or dough, no special equipment other than what you likely have on hand, and have them done start to finish in under ten minutes, including prep time?
Here’s How To Make Donuts at Home… You’re Welcome 🙂
We Southerners (and humans in general), love our doughnuts.
The most important thing about this doughnut making recipe though is that you begin with CANNED BISCUITS. No, they do NOT taste anything like a biscuit when you are done. They taste every bit as melt in your mouth good as they look!
Recipe Ingredients:
- Vegetable oil
- Canned biscuits for the doughnuts
- Butter
- Cinnamon
- And sugar for the coating.
TIP: For the biscuits, any style at all will do, just don’t get the flaky layers because they will absorb the oil whereas normal biscuits won’t if we get our oil hot enough before frying them.
- In a bowl, stir together cinnamon and sugar and set that aside.
- Melt a stick of butter in another bowl and set aside as well. Now they will both be handy as soon as the doughnuts are done.
Making the doughnut hole
Now you can go buy a doughnut cutter or some other fancy finagled device (which I actually have tucked away in the dark recesses of my kitchen drawers) but I like to show y’all how to do things the simple way. I’m a big fan of not over complicating a simple matter. For that very reason, we are going to just use a plain old 20 oz bottle cap to cut the centers of our doughnuts out.
- Cut out the holes in every doughnut, reserving them to cook along with the doughnuts.
- Voila, our doughnuts are done.
Pour your oil in a skillet. You need a little less than a half inch.
Heat your oil on medium to medium high for several minutes. We want it to be hot so that our doughnuts are instantly seared when they enter it. This prevents them from absorbing too much of the oil and being soggy. However, we don’t want it too hot so that the outside gets done before the inside.
TIP: To test my oil, I put a doughnut hole in it. It should sizzle and bubble around the edges and then you know its hot enough. You may need to turn your heat down a bit after testing it with some doughnut holes to see if it is just right. Once the doughnut hole is golden, remove it and let it cool a minute before taking a bite to make sure it’s fully cooked, not gooey, in the center.
Time to cook the doughnuts!
TIP: If your skillet isn’t big enough you may have to do them in batches. By the time you have put them all in, some may already be ready to turn. It takes less than a minute for them to be ready to turn over.
This is how they look, nice and golden.
- Turn them all over and let them cook until the undersides are this way. All in all, this should take less than two minutes.
- Remove cooked doughnuts from oil and place on paper towel lined plate or a drying rack if you’re feeling fancy.
- Now do the same thing with the doughnut holes.
- Here are our cooked doughnuts, now let’s add a little bit of heaven to them!
- The doughnuts should have cooled just enough so that you can handle them but they will still be very warm.
- Pick each one up and dip both sides in melted butter…
- Then press them down into the cinnamon sugar on both sides.
- Repeat with all doughnuts and doughnut holes.
- Eat them warm. They will positively melt in your mouth, they are so good!
No one will believe you started out with canned biscuits so lets just keep that little tidbit to ourselves 😉
Doughnuts in minutes! What a fun breakfast or evening treat when family is visiting!
Ingredients
- 1 large can Grands style biscuits or your preference, just not flaky layers
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons cinnamon
- 1 stick butter melted
- Vegetable Oil For Frying
Instructions
- Pour oil into skillet to the depth of a little less than 1/2 an inch and heat on medium to medium high for about five minutes. In a bowl, melt butter. In a separate bowl, combine cinnamon and sugar.
- Using a plastic bottle cap, cut the center out of each biscuit. Drop dough into hot oil, watching carefully and turning when golden. Once doughnuts are golden on both sides, remove to paper towel lined plate. Repeat until all dough is cooked, including doughnut holes.
- Dip both sides of each doughnut into melted butter, then press both sides into cinnamon sugar mixture. Serve warm.
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just made these donuts they were soo good and soo easy to make. but i wanted glaze so maybe u can make some with glaze recipe with it.
We made these donuts 48 years ago. I was just 19 and we were poor always looking for a goodie. For some reason I have not given them another thought. I will try them again for sure. My Grandchildren will think wow Grandma has all the good idea’s. Thank.s for your share.
~giggles~ Every grandchild should think that about their Grandparents!! Grandparents are such a special blessing and I just know yours already think you are the best ever!
Just made my first batch! Yummy! I had layered biscuits in the fridge, so I rolled each one and flattened it out first. Used the cap off the frying oil to cut out the holes. Made one batch dipped in butter but won’t do that again–too dense…putting them in the sugar mix while still warm was plenty to make sugar stick. Love all the other ideas for frostings and glazes. Not healthy, but most all we do is, so this recipe will be made again!
I am so glad to hear that you liked them Sheryl!!!
Back in the late 50’s when I was a small girl, my dad would take us to a small restaurant in our little town and they always had these. Dad would buy a box of 2 dozen or so to take home. Finally, my mom decided to try them and we’ve made them for over 40 years! The restaurant served them with a buttercream glaze or the cinnamon/sugar topping. Yum!
Can I use just butter? or do I need to use margarine?
Butter would work just fine 🙂
I made these for my family tonight (and posted them on my blog) they were amazzzzing! thanks for the recipe!
I am so glad to hear you liked them!!
I dont know what I did wrong because I followed the directions to a T, but mine fried beautifully on the outside but on the inside they were soooooo doughy. They didnt cook AT ALL. I had already put the sugar and everything on them so I just finished baking them which ended up not being doughnuts at all. 🙁 . I used trader joes buttermilk biscuits. Should I have used something else? Anyone else have this problem? thanks!
The problem was that your oil was too hot, turn your oil down a bit so the inside has time to cook before the outside gets done.