Donuts - The Easy Way

Donuts from home.

Things you'll need:
  Stove top
  Pan
  Vegetable oil
  Pilsbury Buttermilk Biscuits
  Powdered Sugar
  Warm Water
  Mapleine 
  2 Bowls
  Cooling Racks 
  Spoons/Wisk

 

 Pour vegetable oil in the pan.  About 3/4 in.

Put oil on the back burner and turn it to medium heat.

While oil is warming, make your glaze.  Powdered sugar and water.

Add one tablespoon of warm water at a time.

Until it looks something like this. Don't be afraid to make it thin, it covers much easier.

 

It's time to prep your biscuits.

Obviously, you must open the can first. :)

Put a hole in the middle of each biscuit.  Use your index fingers and thumbs for this task.

 They should look like this when you're done.

 

Check your oil by placing the handle of a wooden spoon on the bottom of the pan.  If it bubbles all around, it's ready!  You should NEVER flick water into hot oil.

Place holed biscuits into oil and watch closely.  The brown will rise up the side, when you see it, flip it.  Tongs work well, my favorite thing to use are chop sticks.  They just make it easy. Make sure you leave room for them to grow and flip. 

Here's the other side.

Now you choose your topping.  If you want powdered donuts, they have to be tossed RIGHT AWAY.

Glazed need to drain a little so I suggest a cookie sheet beneath your cooling rack. 

We rather fancy maple donuts around here.  When you are done with glazed, add Mapleine.  Again, HIGHLY recommended. 

There you have it, two racks full of morning goodness. 

Listening

  It amazes me how my children don't ever seem to be listening when I talk but they can recite jingles, tag lines, and benefits from nearly every commercial.  Today the "Pack It" commercial was on and Michael proceed to tell me all the different ways that it was good for us to buy.  "Did you know that the Pack it is SO much better than our lunch boxes because it keeps food cold for up to TEN HOURS?!?  Plus you don't have to think about what to pack us because it comes with a menu.  See?  You get that for free when you order the Pack it.  Did you hear that FREE word?"  I said to him, "We don't need the Pack It, you guys already have brand new lunch boxes."  He said, "But they aren't good for our lunch.  They'll let our food go bad and turn brown.  The Pack It comes with freezer packs on all sides."

  I sure as heck hope he listens this well in first grade.