When we were little and would stay at my grandma’s house, so often we would have these delicious biscuit donuts for breakfast. It makes sense. These are SO easy to make, and most of the time she would also be in the process of making a Sunday lunch for over 10 people.
Every time I make these, I think back to my grandma’s house and eating them. Food like this that nudges happy childhood memories to the surface is great (even if it’s not the most healthy thing to eat)!
Growing up, we would eat these tossed in powdered sugar, but to mix things up, I also made a cinnamon sugar coating. Having the combination of the two was perfect.
For this recipe, I recommend finding biscuits that are NOT flaky or butter lovers of any sort. Plain homestyle or buttermilk biscuits work best to make these donuts. I also like the Grands biscuits for their size, but a smaller size works perfectly well too!
- 1 Roll of Biscuits (Homestyle or Buttermilk work best)
- 1½ cups canola oil, for frying
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- Start heating the oil to a temperature between medium and medium-high in a medium pot. Make sure that the oil covers the bottom of the pan with about 1-2 inches of oil.
- Open the can of biscuits. Watch out for that "pop!"
- Separate the biscuits onto a flat surface, like a cutting board.
- Using a donut hole cutter (or appropriately-sized syrup cap), punch a hole into the center of each biscuit.
- Place the powdered sugar into a bowl that has a lid (tupperware works great!)
- Mix the granulated sugar and cinnamon into a separate bowl or plate so that donuts can be dipped on each side.
- Test the oil by placing one of the donut holes into the oil. If the hole does not start cooking right away, increase the temperature of the stove to medium-high.
- Once the oil starts cooking the donuts quickly, start placing them in for about a 30 seconds to a minute per side, until browned and cooked.
- As donuts come out of the oil, dry onto paper towels briefly before either shaking in the powdered sugar or covering with the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
- Plate and enjoy! Best served fresh.
Kate Pierce
13 March, 2016 at 8:50 pmI think the proportions of cinnamon and sugar are wrong because I made these tonight and I used the 1/4 c. sugar as listed and just 1 tsp. of cinnamon and it was already way darker than what’s in your picture and it was suuuper cinnamon-y. Other than that though, these were delicious!! Great recipe. When I make them again I’ll probably turn them all into little “donut holes” because they’re so cute, cook really quickly, and are easy to toss in the various sugars. Thanks for sharing this family recipe!
Aimee
15 March, 2016 at 9:38 amOooh, I think I just like mine pretty cinnamony, but perhaps it should be tsp instead of tbsp. Updating the recipe until I can make again to test! Thanks for being a great recipe tester! :)
Kate Pierce
17 March, 2016 at 4:21 pmAwesome! Thanks :-)