Powdered Sugar Donuts



 For this recipe you will need:

  • A Can of Refrigerated Biscuits
  • Vegetable Oil
  •  Powdered Sugar
  •  A Top to a water bottle or drink bottle


You'll be using this bottle top, down below to cut the donuts...Let's get started...Separate the biscuits, you'll cut the center of the biscuits and save the centers too, these are your donut holes...

  After you cut a hole in center of each biscuit with the bottle top....set them aside, you are going to fry them... 

 *Pour some powdered sugar into a gallon size plastic zip bag

 *Now, pour some vegetable oil into a skillet, fill the skillet a little less than half full, remember the donuts will make the oil rise in the skillet and you don't want that oil to overflow. 

 *Let oil heat for about 3-5 minutes on med-high heat, stay near the oil, (note: as a safety precaution, never turn your back on oil, it can get hot quick), after a few minutes of heating the oil, test the oil to see if it's hot enough to cook in, you can do this by sprinkling a little pinch of the powdered sugar into the oil, it should sizzle when it's ready,this is how you will know that the oil is ready and hot enough to add the donuts.  

 *Now, gently add the donuts to the oil (note:when you first add the donut, if the donut doesn't begin immediately cooking and bubbling, your grease isn't hot enough, take it out and wait a little longer before adding the donuts) 

 *After adding the donuts, be ready to turn them with thongs or a fork, because they will brown on bottom quickly.  You can turn down the heat to medium now...


*Flip the donuts once they are golden brown on bottom, they won't take long to cook maybe 20-30 seconds to brown on each side. You'll want to stay right there with them and keep a close check on them

 *Drain them on paper towel lined plates....


 Now cook the donut holes....and drain...
Then immediately put donuts and donut holes in the powdered sugar that you have ready in the gallon sized plastic zip bag. Zip the bag and shake until well coated. You can do this in batches, I usually coat half of them and then the other half....the sooner you can get the donuts in the bag of powdered sugar, the better the coating will stick...

They will look something like this when they are done...
Enjoy!

Special thanks to my beautiful mama for cooking this for me when I was a little girl and for passing this easy recipe down to me, so that I could fix it for my family too....these donuts have always been a favorite...the kids love it. She would cut her center hole with a knife, I got inventive with the water bottle top! It makes it easier, and I'm all about making things easier!