This recipe scares me: One-ingredient Fresh Donuts

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marilynfl

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It's not just the idea of fresh, hot, sweet, sugar-infused nutritionally-depleted white flour flooding my taste buds and setting off Klaxon alarms of seratonin alerts. It's knowing the vicarious thrill I'll get whacking that paper canister on the edge of the counter and watching the bloom of dough burst through.

"Donut Giving Life"

Performance Art, Installation #486.58

http://sweets.seriouseats.com/2011/01/how-to-make-the-easiest-doughnuts-donuts-from-pillsbury-biscuits-homemade.html?obref=obinsite

 
no kidding, me and the kids did this last night BUT

we used the Immaculate brand which are ostensibly healthier/better ingredients. My wife even said it tasted like Krispy Kreme

We tried using their Croissant, Biscuit, and even the Blueberry Scones for this. All turned out well. I found for best results though to take each of the biscuits and thin them out to 3 or 4 per biscuit - it can be done with some finesse. the croissants will be doughy if you use a whole triangle but for smaller pieces came out well.

 
My mom did this when we were kids and my sister & I had lots of fun with it

We would do cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar & chocolate or plain frosted ones.

 
I grew up on these

Dad made them quite a bit and that would have been back in the '60s and '70s. Funny that they are acting like it is such a new thing.

Besides a plain glaze he would also take a spoonful or two of frozen orange juice concentrate and mix with confectioners sugar to make a tangy orange glaze that was our favorite.

My Grandmother Presley's famous 'fried' pies started with cheap canned biscuits rolled out and filled with her dried apples that she rehydrated and cooked down then placed in a cast iron skillet that had been heated in the oven with a thin layer of shortening.

And I also learned you can make a sort of quick 'cobbler' by taking a can of peaches and putting them in a saucepan and rolling the biscuits out and cutting into pieces and dropping them in the hot peaches and syrup. Add a little cinnamon and voila - 5 minute cobbler.

 
So true- so many recipes from long ago become "new" or trendy- and one of mine using dough

Something I discovered quite on my own many years ago was to take the Pillsbury refrigerated breadsticks, coil and form the breadstick dough from one tube into four burger bun halves, stack two each together to make a total of two stacks or two burger buns and bake. Then just gently pull apart and make burgers. Delicious! When I'm in a hurry I do this.

 
I can still remember my aunt in her kitchen 45 years ago

making these and how amazing they tasted warm from the oil and sprinkled with granulated sugar. Colleen

 
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