Doughnuts made easy, Doughnut Recipe in five minutes!
A year ago I shared with you my experience with lazy man doughnuts. This last week, we hosted a fun Ladies night out where we all shared our favorite tips and tricks and treats. I shared with my friends how to make these delicious doughnuts. So now I thought I would share a complete tutorial on how to achieve the easiest doughnuts, for when you are tired, or you just need something quick and easy to appease the children. Not to mention they taste great, and they don’t take much time at all.
Shaping your doughnuts
To begin making these super easy doughnuts, you simply need a can of fridge biscuits. You don’t necessarily need a brand name, but I found the brand name does rise a little better when cooked. But it is up to you.
To keep them simple, including the clean up, I simply put out a roll of wax paper and place the biscuits onto the paper. You can then use a small parring knife and cut a circle from the center of the biscuit to create a doughnut shape.
But I’m all about making things extra simple. So if you happen to have a Soda pop bottle handy, simply take the lid and use that instead. Place it into the center of the biscuit and push down. It will easily cut the center hole for you. And it will be a perfect shape as well. Better than I can get with my knife anyway. It now looks professional! No one will guess they are homemade doughnuts, nor even that you are making them from biscuits!
How to cook homemade doughnuts
As for cooking the doughnuts, you can either pan fry them or fry them in a deep fryer. I’ve tried both, and quite honestly I got the best results from a deep fryer. I think particularly it is because I was able to better regular the temperature of the deep fryer so it was a steady temperature at the right temperature; where when I was frying on the stove top, it wasn’t. But if you don’t have a deep fryer, you can still fry them in oil on the stove. Just make sure you have enough oil in the pan and that the oil is hot enough, but not too hot. It’s really tricky to get it just right. I wish I had an easy way to help you get the temperature perfect; but sadly I don’t. I am lazy and I use my deep fryer.
Simply place the doughnuts into the fryer pan, then lower it into the preheated oil. You don’t want to put the doughnuts in until the oil is the optimal temperature; they won’t cook correctly. They should begin to float and start to turn golden. Once they are to the golden level you prefer, use a pair of long cooking tongs to flip them over so the other side may cook. Once both sides are done, remove from the oil and let cool on paper towels.
Enjoy your easy homemade doughnuts
Once your doughnuts have cooled slightly you may now embellish them as you wish. Our favorite is by adding on a chocolate glaze. When my kids are helping me they also add on sprinkles and even sometimes powdered sugar on top of the glaze. You can also add jams or jellies, or a regular glaze or just powdered sugar on it’s own. But the one thing you must be sure to do is enjoy them!
For me the part I love the most are the little doughnut holes! In Fact most of the people at our ladies night out party loved the doughnut holes the best. Thankfully my kids really love the doughnut parts, so in the end it all is eaten up before the day is over.
So can these doughnuts be saved and eaten the next day and still taste great? Honestly, I haven’t a clue. We’ve never had any last long enough to even give it a try. But if you can resist finishing them off long enough to try it out, let me know what you find.
With everything we have tried with these doughnuts, the one thing I’m dying to try next time is injecting them with the raspberry filling from our raspberry filled gourmet cupcakes recipe. Then dust them with powdered sugar. Oh, I think I need to try this soon!
So do you think you would make these easy doughnuts?
What is your favorite doughnut?
How would you decorate your doughnuts?
Original idea from How Does She, craft and tutorial blog. A personal favorite of mine.
Wow! I haven’t done this since I was a kid! Thanks for reminding me about this! Much cheaper than going to Dunkin’ Donuts!
Is there one particular oil you recommend over another? These look so easy – I need to try making donuts this way for my stepson when he’s over! 🙂
I just used regular frying oil. No particular kind. If I could afford it, I would fry everything in coconut oil. It’s my favorite and makes everything taste DIVINE. But it’s expensive to use a lot of it for frying like this.
Great idea to use the biscuits! I am totally trying this 🙂
Those look and sound amazing. My favorite doughnuts are either cinnamon sugar or lemon filled. Yumm-o and SO much cheaper than buying them at the store. I know what I’m getting on my next trip to the store! Thanks!
I never thought to make donuts from a can of biscuits. They look so good, I’m drooling right now because I love donuts. I’m going to make them this weekend..thanks for sharing this.
I am sooooo making this this weekend! Me and donuts have a special love affair! Awesome idea Amber!
That looks amazing and so easy!!I am totally going to try this. Thanks!
Oh goodness, I would love to see Haley or Zane’s face when they get to taste these. 🙂 Maybe you should post a photo in your Saturday Laughs one week so I can see. 🙂
My mom does this before, and I miss them, I miss my childhood as well. Usually we would just sprinkle this donut with sugar and it’s good to go!
How YUMMY!!! I’m coming over!!!
Kristin, if you made it all the way over here in rural Idaho….I would DEFINITELY make you some donuts and Hot Cocoa!
I am so embarrassed to admin I just tried and failed to make donuts without a donut pan. Using biscuits is genius!
Oh Yum! I love doughnuts. My favorites are the sprinkle kind because I am still a kid at heart!
Look what you did. It’s 1:04 am and now I want to make donuts! 🙂
lol, yeah, every time I see the post on my homepage, I get the urge to go make them again too. lol.
We’ve done this! The kids love them because they are so tasty, I love them because they are so easy! I like them with powdered sugar!
These look fabulous and I would have NEVER thought to made doughnuts from canned biscuits! I think I’ll try these for the kids tomorrow!
This HAS to be amazing! Definitely going to try this and pinning it now.
These look so good! I’ve heard about making these in a frying pan but we once used oil in a frying pan and the pan completely melted and it caused a small kitchen fire. Obviously, the pan was defective but i’m still terrified of using oil in a frying pan like that. I’ll have to give these a try in our deep fryer.
These doughnuts look delicious! Thank you for sharing this recipe. I’ve always loved maple doughnuts so that’s definitely what I’d try to make!
Oh boy! These look great! I haven’t made donuts in years…. You’ve inspired me! 🙂
This is the coolest thing ever. If I had a fryer I would seriously do this right now!!! How cool! Thanks!
Holy Cow! Who knew it was so easy!! I wish I had a deep fryer… but my husband doesn’t want us to get one because he’s afraid if we do, we’ll just end up eating a ton of unhealthy fried foods… and ummm, he’s probably right. Everything must be better deep fried, right? lol. I have to try these! And I almost always have biscuits in the fridge… well, accept for today. I have the frozen Grands in the freezer (we use them for buscuits & gravy… my 3yr old’s favorite meal 😉 but I don’t think those will work. I am totally trying these this week on the stove! My favorite donut are plain glazed or cinnamon sugar plain cake. Yum. I think I would make a plain glaze with milk & powdered sugar for these 🙂 And of course, my son will add some sprinkles 😉 Thanks for sharing!
these look very nice and tasty. I have never attempted to make my own, but your step by step gives me encouragement. Will try them!
Oh my gosh that looks so easy!! thanks so much.. we love donuts here!
my dad likes making doughnuts in our deep fryer but i don’t think we have ever done it with a chocolate glaze maybe ill see if we can next time 😀
Looks great and easy at the same time. Thank you for sharing
OMG… thank you so much for sharing this! Awesome and easy idea! I can’t wait to try making these for my kids! I’m sure it will be a hit!
These look SO good, and look so easy to make. Thank you for sharing!!!!
Donuts are one of my biggest weaknesses. These look super simple. I especially like the apple cider donuts they serve at the Red Barn in Santaquin. Yum! Yum!
My mother used to make doughnuts out of biscuits when I was a child. They were so good. I made them for my own children when they were little, but I have not made them in years. Thanks for the review and reminding me of this simple way to make a delicious treat.
Wow i would of never thought to use biscuits as doughnuts so creative
My Mom made these for me back in the 60’s! We always tossed ours in a paper bag filled with cinnamin sugar, shake,shake,shake…yum,yum,yum! Thanks for the trip down memory lane…
Yum! I haven`t made homemade donuts in years because they`re quite a bit of work, but I`ll definitely have to try making these! So much easier! Thanks so much for the tip!
Awesome! We make these all the time, but usually we just drop in the biscuits without shaping them. Sprinkled with sugar they’re like the Chinese buffet donuts and so yummy.
delish. This sounds amazing. My kids love doughnuts.
Wow… I’ve never tried making donuts before… we always just bought them from the store for the kids… this could be fun!
I’ve made doughnuts before, but these look super easy. I’m sure my family would love them.
I have tried a lot of different recipes for donuts but this recipe looks so easy that I have to try it. Thanks a lot.
Oh wow this sounds really yummy and simple!
Wow, so cool! I love this, what a great way to make donuts! I’m going to try this tonight! Thanks!
Love easy peasy recipes! Thanks. Pinned.
You just taught me something wonderful. I didn’t realize you could do this to make doughnuts and they look awesome. My grandson has asked me before to make but never have as of yet. I am so excited to see this.
Wow this looks so yummy. I would have never thought to do this. I am so glad that I found this recipe on your blog because my son loves doughnuts so now I can make them whenever he wants them which will make him really happy. I love that they take no time at all to make. thanks again.
we make these ‘not donuts’ a lot at our house. we dont even bother making them look like donuts. we just cut each biscuit into quarters and fry em up that way. we roll some of them in powdered sugar, some in cinnamon and sugar and make a chocolate dip and powdered sugar glaze dip. yum, yum!!
These look like the real mc coy! I would have never thought of biscuits and I love the idea of using a lid to cut the hole! LOL
How awesome of an idea is this! I totally have to go out and buy a deep fryer,some biscuits and glaze so that I can make these at home. I’m sure everyone will enjoy them because they look so tasty! Thanks for sharing this recipe.
These look so easy and so good! Would add cinnamon sugar!