Baby Boston Creme Pies
Alright, I know I said I was going to do a slew of light, low sugar, and otherwise diet recipes this month and here I am doing yet another doughnut recipe! Well this one you can blame on my husband. I whipped these up last night and after eating three (in a row), he tweeted out to his friends that they would be posted soon and they “HAD to make them!”. He has also made a few phone calls today too and the result is that I have a bunch of engineers salivating and watching Southern Plate for this recipe to be posted.
Now if y’all aren’t familiar with engineers, you may not realize that they have a tendency to form mobs. These mobs are highly organized, underground organizations which meet to strategize (and eat pizza) on a regular basis while managing to avoid government detection by cloaking themselves under the guise of “user groups”.
A mob of unsettled engineers may not seem like a big deal but you aren’t thinking straight here. This is a mob of highly educated people (disproportionately men) who are equipped with top of the line high tech electronic devices and the collective knowledge to design, build, and launch nuclear weapons out of their pocket lint, a few paper clips, and some gum wrappers. Add hunger and cravings into the mix and we got a problem if the beast is not appeased. Look people, they know where I live! I had no choice.
On a lighter note, these are delicious, perhaps my favorite of the canned biscuit doughnut recipes I’ve posted. The filling is made with sugar free pudding, light whipped topping, and fat free or low fat milk. The only real sugar in the recipe comes from the small amount of icing on top so as far as calories and guilt goes, you could do a heck of a lot worse than these! Don’t bother telling anyone in your family they are actually light, no one will know.
They really are horrible. Absolutely melt in your mouth delicious and the filling and chocolate……. You are going to love and hate me at the same time if you make these!
You will need: Canned biscuits, sugar free instant jello, lite cool whip, and some vegetable oil.
You will also need milk, I used 1%.
Place about 1/2 inch of oil into your pan and heat it on medium heat for about five minutes or so, to make sure it is good and hot.
Add in biscuits.
After less than a minute, they will be ready to turn. Turn them over and let them get good and brown on both sides. Remove from oil and place onto paper towel lined plate.
Now we make our cream filling. This is one of my favorite fillings. I use this recipe to fill cream puffs and as a light icing for cold cakes. Its also great just dolloped over fresh fruit.
Place 1 1/2 cups of fat free milk in a mixing bowl. Add an entire small box of sugar free french vanilla pudding. Note that we are adding 1/2 cup less milk than what the pudding calls for so this will be a bit thicker.
After that is mixed up, add eight ounces of lite whipped topping.
Make sure it is all blended up well. I mix mine with the mixer for a minute or two and then stir from the bottom with a rubber spatula to ensure I didn’t miss any. This is just delicious and very low cal!
Now, using a pastry bag with tip or just a new oral syringe (which you can get at any pharmacy for next to nothing – they might even give it to you if you tell them you’ll bring them some of these!), press the tip into the side of the doughnut and pipe a little filling in each one. I go for a little less than a tablespoon but you can do as much or as little as you like.
Like this…
There ya go, filled doughnut …er uh…creme pie!
Now you are more than welcome to make your icing from scratch but this recipe is meant to be quick and easy so I just used some store bought chocolate icing and stuck it in the microwave for about thirty seconds to get it to a good glaze consistency. Repeat with all of them. Yummmm.
Ingredients
- 1 can biscuits (five or ten count, NOT the flaky layers type)
- Vegetable Oil
- Sugar free french vanilla pudding (small box)
- 1 1/2 Cups fat free or low fat milk
- 8 ounces Fat free or light whipped topping
- 1 can chocolate frosting
Instructions
- Pour oil in skillet to depth of 1/2 inch. Place on medium heat and let heat up for about five minutes to make sure the oil is good and hot.
- Place biscuits in hot oil, turn as soon as they become brown and let brown on both sides. Remove to paper towel lined plates.
- To make filling, mix pudding and milk together in mixing bowl, blend well. Add whipped topping and mix until well blended. Stir with spatula from the bottom a few times to continue mixing.
- Place in icing bag with tip or oral syringe and pipe into doughnuts from the side.
- Heat chocolate frosting in microwave for about thirty seconds, until it is of glaze consistency. Pour into small bowl. Dip the top of each creme pie into icing and place on plate to serve.
*This is a great way to get free tech support on your computer or if you have a rocket or space shuttle you needed drawn up in a cad program or something….
Other products of my canned biscuit doughnut frenzy:
Quick and Easy Jelly Filled Doughnuts
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Oh my word- a pregger woman’s dream come true! lol! I can’t wait to make these!
I loved how you described the mob of nuke toting, hungry engineers!! I can actually see a vision in my head. Always love how you describe these things so well that we get a mental image.
I’ve not always been one for creme pies but these don’t sound half bad! Also, you had a more recent recipe for a sugar free frosting that I imagine would go great with these, and make them even lighter on the sugar.
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Thanks as always for an entertaining and appetizing post!!
Oh Christy… I’m going to have to make some of these! *drool*
Oh yummy. I did make these for my daughter’s sleep over party last summer. They were a HUGE hit!! Now, if I could just eat them everyday I would be very happy!!
Ohhh my my, these look so yummy!! Going to have to try these little darlins this weekend on the family!! Thanks so much once again Christy!!!!! Hugssss
My daughters (11, 8, and 3) have been begging to make these since they saw the picture. We finally made them and WOW! They exceeded my expectations! Thank you from all of us! Dear hubby hasn’t had any yet but I’m sure he will attempt to divorce me and find you once he taste them
Try mixing instant pistacchio,1/2 small can pineapple, cool whip, use meat injector to put it in doughnut. Use store bought cream cheese icing with a drop of green food coloring. Oh, yes. Also tried this with coconut pudding and cream cheese, then with chocolate pudding, chocolate cool whip, german chocolate icing. Just let your imagination run wild… mine did! And they loved them all! Oh, forgot storebought strawberry preserves with strawberry icing. Love those $1 off coupons on icing and Pillsbury coupons.
new to your blog. Saw your post on $5 dinners, came over cause my hubby LOVES southern cooking, saw your first post and almost ran to the store at 11:30 at night for the stuff to make these..wow, they look SOOOOOOOO good!
I made these and they are lip smackin good! Thanks for the recipe!
~Deanie
Just like your husband said: I HAVE to make these ones too. Thanks for the detailed recipe!
Never would have thought of an oral syringe. Great idea!
Look delicious, my kids will love it. They like the pie cream so I have some thing to cook for them this coming holiday. If you are not mind I will call it Baby California Cream Pies
Victoria
I made these today, only I used your recipe for the cinnamon rolls dough and used half for this and half for cinnamon rolls. Both were great recipes. Thank you for sharing.
Yummmy!!!
Oh, Christy! You’ve done it again! I have to tell you I do NOT have ANY doughnut shops anywhere near me and I sure have been missing them. My favorite has always been Boston creme, and I never thought I’d ever be so lucky as to find a recipe for them! Can’t wait to try them. You are a such a blessing to those of us in rural areas!!!
Awww, that is so sweet of you to say. Thank you so much! I am so glad you are enjoying the recipes and I think you will really love these. Let me know how they turn out.
WOW!!!! I was a little worried about using canned biscuits, but these were SO delicious! Thanks!
Oh My!! These are so good. Chocolate Eclair’s are my favorite pastry and these pies just hit the spot. Thank you for the recipe.
Christy, I have been reading your archived blogs and came across this recipe for the Boston Cream filled Doughnuts. For those of you out there like me that are diabetic instead of using the reg. choclate icing for dipping them in they do have the sugar-free icing and it is really good. Thanks for all of the great stories and recipes.
Thanks for sharing Melanie!! I am sure there are several folks that will appreciate it!!
I want to try making these and I’m new to baking. Are you supposed to prepare the biscuits in the oven per the directions on them and then fry them or just fry them straight out of the can?
Just straight out of the can,
How did I miss these?
Do other yummies (eg. custard or normal whipped cream) work as fillings as well? <3
Yes ma’am! I’d thicken my cream a bit if using it though, or add a stabilizer.