My husband and I realized the other day that we both fondly remember a childhood treat — homemade donuts. His mother made them for him with cinnamon and sugar. My grandmother made them for me with powdered sugar. Being that we have been snowed/iced in for a few days, I decided it would be a great time to make some homemade donuts with our daughter.
It is easy as pie to make these donuts, you just start out with some biscuits. My grandmother made hers from scratch but my mother-in-law used tin biscuits. Either will work great. For ours, I used tin biscuits, because I am not much of a from-scratch biscuit-makin’ kind of girl. For it to work with canned biscuits, you need to make sure you buy a “southern style” variety and not the ones with flaky layers. Here are the simple step-by-step instructions:
- Heat oil to 325 degrees in your deep fryer
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- Open your can of southern style biscuits and place them on a cutting board or plate.
- Use a bottle top from a water bottle or a soda bottle to make a hole in the middle of the donut. (Save the holes and fry them, too!)
- Place donuts in fryer basket and fry for 2-3 minutes per side. Use a fork or tongs to flip the donut over to brown the other side.
- Pour powdered sugar out onto a plate. (You can also use cinnamon and sugar, top with glaze or pour melted chocolate on top.)
- Right before removing the donut from the oil, flip it over to coat the top side with oil again, then immediately move into the powdered sugar.
- Cover thoroughly with the powdered sugar and set aside to cool slightly.
6 comments so far:
Yes! I remember making these! Thanks for the reminder, I’m pretty sure Ben would love these.
My husband loves these. We use a ziplock baggie to coat them with either powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar. We drop in fried donut and shake. The kids love that part. Very easy, yet they treat them like you slaved, “Donuts! Mom, thanks!”
Kelly, I love to make food that seems like it is hard but really isn’t. That’s the only way I can impress people with my cooking. I like the ziplock baggie idea, will have to do that next time.
This is the way I’ve been making donuts for years. I don’t havea deep fryer though so i would just put enough oil in the pan to cover half the donut and flip them.
We have a tradition in my family where someone makes breakfast every sunday and I’d make these with cinnamon sugar and scrambled eggs and a side of bacon. Everyone liked it a lot! I still couldn’t beat my mom’s banana french toast though
No one cooks like mom does!
I love bananas and french toast. Is mom’s recipe a secret or can you share?
well, french toast is french toast. Mom makes a type caramel syrupy sauce. Basically, she melts down some sugar in a big heavy pan and then when it’s all down melting she’ll turn off the heat and whisk in some heavy cream. A pat of butter and a pinch of salt. drop the bananas in to get them all warm.
It’s just straight delicious! She puts all the hot goodness all over those french baddies. Then she tops with toasted pecans. Man, Bananas are so good. There’s a waterfall in my mouth thinking about it! ha ha. Good luck