Fried Dough and Various Kinds of Sugar

Quick and easy (and cheap) doughnuts.  My family was ridiculously impressed and quiet for at least 30 minutes while they ate.

What you will need: oil, sugar, cinnamon, powdered sugar, raw biscuits, a deep skillet, tongs, candy thermometer (this is optional but it gives you a slightly better idea of the temperature to have your oil)










Step One:  Heat the oil to about 240.  You want to have it hot enough to brown the biscuits but not so hot that they get too brown before the dough it cooked.

(Please don't make fun of my candy thermometer. I know all of the numbers have worn away but I can still see them if I look very closely.)

Step Two:  Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces.  This is what worked well for me.  If you'd like to have them look like doughnuts you can punch a circle out of the middle of each biscuit or you could use cookie cutters to cut shapes you like.  Remember they are going to puff up a bit and might lose some of their shape.

Step Three:  Plop the dough in the oil.  Leave on one side about 1-2 minutes.  They will start to get brown.  Once one side is brown flip them over and let the other side fry for another 1-2 minutes.










This is what they look like when you flip them over.

Step Four:  While they are cooking put powdered sugar in a bowl and mix refined sugar with cinnamon in another bowl.

Step Five:  As you pull them out of the oil immediately roll them around in the sugar.

This is the cinnamon and sugar.  Obviously I did the same thing with the powdered sugar but I couldn't get the picture to turn the other way and I was being mildly OCD about it.  So I deleted it.

Step Six:  Put them on a paper towel or a cooling rack.  I use the Alton Brown method of putting paper towels down and then putting a cooling rack on top upside down so some of the oil drains but they don't sit in the oil.



DONE!!!  OK this is a horrible picture but I was having to dodge hands in the picture.  OK... they were my hands but it was hot fried dough covered in sugar so you can't blame me.



Recap:  Writing this post took longer than the entire process of making these.  Everyone loved them.  They were absolutely unhealthy.  The only thing I had to purchase was a can of Grands (which was on sale for $1.00 at Publix this week) and everything else I already had in my cabinet.

This one will go in the "Pinterest Win" category.