Melt In Your Mouth Doughnuts, Made At Home! (Foolproof and GREAT For Beginners!)
Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts
Look at that photo. Is your mouth watering yet? How about if I told you that you could make these amazing treats, serving them warm and golden to your family, with no knowledge whatsoever of yeast or dough, no special equipment other than what you likely have on hand, and have them done start to finish in under ten minutes, including prep time?
I sound like an infomercial, don’t I? I bet you’re half expecting me to cock one eye
“ShamWOW! You’ll just say, WOW!”
Seriously though, we Southerners (and humans in general), love our doughnuts. Mama says you always need to drink a diet coke with doughnuts because it cancels out the calories. This is what she and Aunt Sue did the time they were in Gatlinburg, and stopped by the Krispy Kreme. They got one dozen hot doughnuts (the ultimate in luxury!) and two diet cokes. By the time they got back to the hotel, they had eaten the entire dozen! They had the good sense to throw away the doughnut box (hiding the evidence) before they got to the room but then discovered their husbands were waiting on them so they could go out to eat. Still, by then there were stuffed (and feeling slightly ill) and couldn’t stand eat!
Now one of the great things about these is that you don’t have to run to Krispy Kreme or Dunkin’ and you don’t have any evidence to hide! The most important thing though is that they begin with CANNED BISCUITS! Seriously!! No, they do NOT taste anything like a biscuit when you are done. They taste every bit as melt in your mouth good as they look!
Ingredients For Canned Biscuit Doughnuts
The ingredients are simple and as I said before, you likely have them on hand. You’ll need vegetable oil and canned biscuits for the doughnuts and margarine, cinnamon, and sugar for the coating.
For the biscuits, I get cheapie generic Texas style, but any style at all will do, just don’t get the flaky layers because they will absorb the oil whereas normal biscuits won’t if we get our oil hot enough before frying them. When I was done, you couldn’t tell a difference in my oil level from when I started! 
Cinnamon Sugar Mixture
In a bowl, stir together cinnamon and sugar.
Melt a stick of margarine and place the margarine and cinnamon sugar bowls side by side so we’ll be able to use them as soon as the doughnuts are done.
Cutting out centers of canned biscuits to make doughnuts
Now you can go buy a doughnut cutter or some other fancy finagled device (which I actually have tucked away in the dark recesses of my kitchen drawers) but I like to show y’all how to do things the simple way. I’m a big fan of not over complicating a simple matter. For that very reason, we are going to just use a plain old bottle cap to cut the centers of our doughnuts out. I love y’all so much that I drank a Diet Dr Pepper just to have this for you. Oh, the sacrifices I make for my Southern Plate family!!
Cut out the holes in every doughnut, reserving them to cook along with the doughnuts.
Voila, our doughnuts are done!
These are my every day dishes, which I love. You always remember the dishes you ate on growing up. Ours had little green flowers going around the outside of the plates and my grandmother’s had little blue flowers. When I chose these dishes, I wanted my kids to remember a colorful rainbow. They just seemed happy and reminded me of what a childhood should be like, don’t you think?
Pour your oil in a skillet. You need a little less than a half inch. Heat your oil on medium to medium high for several minutes. We want it to be hot so that our doughnuts are instantly seared when they enter it. This prevents them from absorbing too much of the oil and being soggy.
Doughnut Hole sizzling
To test my oil, I put a doughnut hole in it. It should sizzle and bubble around the edges and then you know its hot enough.
Now I put all of my doughnuts in at once. If your skillet isn’t big enough you may have to do them in batches. By the time you have put them all in, some may already be ready to turn. It takes less than a minute for them to be ready to turn over.
This is how they look, nice and golden. Turn them all over and let them cook until the undersides are this way. All in all, this should take less than two minutes.
Remove cooked doughnuts from oil and place on paper towel lined plate.
Now do the same thing with the doughnut holes.
Here is our plate of cooked doughnuts, now lets add a little bit of heaven to them!
The doughnuts should have cooled slightly so that you can handle them but they will still be very warm.
Pick each one up and dip both sides in melted margarine…
The press them down into the cinnamon sugar on both sides. Repeat with all doughnuts and doughnut holes.
Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts Made With Canned Biscuits
Eat them warm. They will positively melt in your mouth, they are so good!
No one will believe you started out with canned biscuits so lets just keep that little tidbit to ourselves ~grins~
Melt In Your Mouth Doughnuts (Made With Canned Biscuits!)
1 ten count can Texas style doughnuts (or your preference, just not flaky layers)
1 Cup Sugar
1 1/2 T cinnamon
1 stick margarine, melted
Vegetable Oil For Frying
Pour oil into skillet to the depth of a little less than 1/2 an inch and heat on medium to medium high for about five minutes. In a bowl, melt margarine. In a separate bowl, combine cinnamon and sugar.
Using a plastic bottle cap, cut the center out of each biscuit. Drop dough into hot oil, watching carefully and turning when golden. Once doughnuts are golden on both sides, remove to paper towel lined plate. Repeat until all dough is cooked, including doughnut holes.
Dip both sides of each doughnut into melted margarine, then press both sides into cinnamon sugar mixture. Serve warm.
Thank you for starting the New Year out with Southern Plate! My email subscribers, stay tuned for an email flurry of printer friendly recipes as soon as I get caught up! I’m also working on a letter of gratitude to all of you which will be emailed out as well! If you’d like to subscribe via email, there is a box just beneath my Foodbuzz ad on the right side of the page!
Gratefully,
Christy
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These are the best. I love ‘em. I make these with my granddaughter. They are somethin’ we can make together and so easy she can do most of the makin’ herself and it makes her so proud. Have a great day. I love your blog.
Hey Rebel!! They are awfully good, aren’t they? Its funny how little kids think its magical to be able to make doughnuts at home! I am having a fabulous day, partly thanks to this comment!!! Thank you so much!!!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
Oh I just know my husband is going to go nuts for these! We are majorly downsizing our food budget so this is a great way to have a treat on the cheap! Thanks so much for posting this recipe Christy!
Hey Heather! You are so welcome! You know, I often make them with just a five count can of biscuits if it is for fewer people. They are also good the next day but nothing beats having them warm!!!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
These doughnuts are so wonderful! My mother used to make ‘em for my brother and me and I used to make them for my kids when they were growing up. I try to avoid the calories now, but seeing the photos sure makes me want to make them again. My mother was a fabulous southern cook, but she used the heck out of canned biscuits. She used them to make wonderful sticky buns, individual pizza crusts that we kids got to put toppings on and of course doughnuts. Ironically, she made her own scratch biscuits that would knock your socks off. I miss sure to miss Mama’s cooking.
What a wonderful idea Christy! I have made my Grandma’s potato doughnuts for years but they are fairly time consuming, so I don’t make them all that often. These could be whipped up on a Sunday morning anytime! Lovely! Lady… you just rock my socks!
OMG I made these last night and here you are today posting it! I didn’t cut the centers out. I am gona do that next time! They were so good that they were gone super fast!! My 1yr old inhaled them!!
YUM-E! I’ve made doughnut holes out of canned biscuits before and then rolled them in powdered sugar…but the cinnamon/sugar ones sound (and look) much better! I just happen to have a can of biscuits in my fridge and now these doughnuts are calling my name
Thanks for the recipe.
Yay! Thanks for posting this. Last time I tried to make biscuit donuts, I botched it up (seriously.I can botch up the easiest of things LOL). I never knew about dipping them in melted butter! I making these for breakfast tomorrow! Oh, and I laughed out loud when I read ShamWow. My husband and I were just making fun of that last night hehe
These are so yummy! We made these as a family when I was younger – this post brought back some delicious memories.
My mom’s plates are all plastic and unbreakable. With 8 kids, they had to be! But most of them are brightly colored, or they were, but now they are fading from years of dishwasher use. Sigh, I love old kid-friendly dishes.
I love making these with my grandsons.They love to punch out the holes. I have also put a glaze on the donuts and than the boys roll them in sprinkles. I can’t wait to make your “Sloppy Joe” recipe. My husband will love it.
I use to make these way back when my adult kids were little. Not having enough money for treats back then I would get the biscuits that were 10/1.00. The kids would twirl them around their finger to make the hole and I would fry them. It has been so many years! This morning my granddaughter was here and we made some of these doughnuts, I had the large donuts on hand. She loved them! I never did brush on the butter before rolling them in the cinnamon sugar and it worked so much better! Another generation and a better way of doing them. Thanks Christy for bring back an old favorite and memories to our family! Yummy!!!
Thanks Christy will be making these for the DGK’s and love the dipping in butter idea will help the sugar to stick even better. Yummy. Judy
ooh, I want some right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My momma used to make these when I was little! I still remember helping dip them in cinnamon sugar or dusting powdered sugar over them.
How funny that you posted this! My husband and I just polished off a batch of these.
As a result, all I could say when I opened the email is “ugh!”. I am stuffed.
I usually only dip them in sugar , I’ll have to try cinnamon next time. In a year. Because I can’t imagine eating them again any time soon!
Oh they look so good! I love donuts when they’re hot, after they cool down I’m not so much a fan, but give me hot fresh cinnamon donuts and I’ll eat them all! We don’t sell the biscuits here though, and nothing at all similar so for now, I’ll have to settle with the odd occasion when I walk past a store selling them hot and fresh.
I have such great memories of making these with my daddy when I was a little girl. We didn’t have much money, so when momma and daddy bought canned biscuits, we kids would get so hopeful. Then, when daddy put the cast iron skillet and oil on, and reached for the biscuits, we ran to the kitchen with great big ole smiles on our faces. Looking back, I remember what a kick he got out of that. Thanks for posting this Christy!
I have not made these in years, my friend always wanted to make them, we would try to put jelly in the middle, and we always made a big mess, but it was fun and they were good doughnuts!
I have a can of biscuits in the fridge now that is turning into doughnuts for dessert tonight thanks to you!
We had the blue and white dishes that I think my mother got with the stamp things at the grocery store?? They had currier and ives prints on them I think.
These look great – I typically make a honey butter mixture and dip my fried biscuit sticks in…I love this!
-Darius
http://www.everydaycookin.com
I love these too! I’m partial to the glazed version – so good!!
My everyday dishes are Mikasa and are totally 70s. Seriously. I got them in 1977 and I still use them today!!
Christy I love making these donuts and so do the kids. We made some and dipped them in chocolate. I still have to post that recipe. It was paulas chocolate dippy donuts. I think i used your Fudge Glaze from your chocolate pound cake recipe. Ü
Oh my goodness those look good. I am sending my husband to the store right now so I can make them. You are the best!!
Why the doughnuts? and so easy! Oh my goodness – not a good start to the new years resolutions!!
OMG… I just wanted to share that we made these this morning and they are fantastic.
Thanks so much for sharing…
Michele
Elizabeth I know just what you mean! I do all sorts of neat things with canned biscuits but I can still make great ones from scratch! Lol Glad this brought back some memories of your clearly wonderful mother! I am trying to avoid the calories, too…so I’m eating these one bite at a time… ~grins~
Jo Hey! Oh now I need that potato doughnut recipe, I’ve never had those !!
I rock your socks? Wow, I must not be all that bad after all! Lol I’m going to tell my kids that, maybe they’ll start to be a bit more impressed with me….nahhhhh.
Always a divine pleasure to see ya, Jo!
Michelle Okay, now that is WEIRD!! I hear twilight zone music!!
Amber Oooh yeah, girl, melted butter improves everything! Lol hehe, my husband laughed out loud when he read the shamwow comment, too! Lol Those commercials are all over the place right now!! Lol My in laws say the guy reminds them of crazy frog. If you don’t know who that is, go to youtube and do a crazy frog video search. I hope you can get the crazy frog voice out of your head though!
Stephanie aww, I loved reading about your mother’s dishes and glad it brought back some memories. I know with me personally, I feel closer to my kids when I take time to think back to my own childhood.
Now I’m feeling all nostalgic…
Linda I need to do them with a glaze but I just love how the cinnamon and sugar cake onto these when you dip them in the melted margarine. I’ve quite the cinnamon sugar addiction, I’m afraid! Let me know how the sloppy joes turn out!
Mary Hey Mary! Do you ever have folks pronounce your name “Mae-ree”? I have a friend named Mary and I always thought it was sweet how the old folks would say her name that way.
The twirling idea is brilliant. I bet your granddaughter had a great time!!!! It takes so little to create magic for a child and when that yields a delicious result all the better!! Hehe, I don’t know if my way is better…but you do have an excuse to drink a twenty ounce coke if you want!!
Judy oh they will have such fun! You’re a cool grandma, I can tell!!
You know, when my sister was younger, my great grandmother didn’t get around too well but she would let Patti spread peanut butter on Ritz crackers and sandwich them together. Once, Patti was out of school and had to stay with her for the whole day. She and my great grandmother went through an entire box of Ritz letting her do that! She brought them home wrapped in foil and was so proud of her special “recipe”!
Olga ~hands Olga a plate of warm cinnamon sugar doughnuts with a big grin~
April you know what is funny, my mom never made these for me!!!
Lol
Candace okay, now that is the second person who just made these the same time I posted them! We must all be on the same craving wavelength!!
Su Hey, if hot and fresh and made by someone else is an option – I’m in!!
Pamela That is the sweetest memory. Thank you so much for sharing that. I love reading these stories of times past. They may have been harder, but they were so precious at the same time.
Amy I know just the dishes you mean!! Isn’t it cool how well we remember them? I hope you enjoyed your dessert, thank YOU!!!
Darius oh what a neat idea, sounds almost like making beignets! Love it!!!
Mary Hey, why mess with a good thing? I actually use some dishes which were made in the forties as well! Lol
I gotta get past my cinnamon sugar fixation so I can try them glazed! Lol
Tina Ooooooh couldn’t you just lick the pot on that fudge glaze? Lol
Always a treat to see you, Tina!
1stopmom You’re just a baking madwoman! Lol I hope you liked them, let me know! We need to work together again soon!
Angie lol Hang in there, I have some light things coming up this month, Honest!
Michelle OH YAY!!!! I’m so glad you liked them!!! I ate a stale one this morning and it was pretty awesome, too! Lol Thank you SO MUCH for reporting back!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
christy these were the best I don’t make sweets often but the doughnuts were great and i couldnt believe they didnt taste like biscuits thanks.
Thank you!!! I’m so glad you liked them!!!!
I really appreciate you commenting and letting me know, too!!!
Wrote this one down and heading to the kitchen to try them. I make Biscuit Cookies for Christmas and have 4 cans of biscuits left over.
I checked out those biscuit cookies you made, those things were NEAT!!!!!
Let me know how you like these!!
Hey loved this recipe. THANKS SO VERY MUCH. My granny made these same doughnuts when I was a child. She passed when I was a teenager. I never had a recipe as such and never made them but I wanted to. Now I can…..thanks!
Hey!
You are so very welcome!! I bet your Granny is proud that you have this little bit of her now
Gratefully,
Christy
Awesome!!! Looks fantastic! Southern Plate is really changing the type of Mom I am… Went from Microwave queen to a talented Machine
Thank you so much! I have learned so much and try out alot of your recipes! I know my son is really going to benefit from all of this!
Brittainy,
You are so sweet, thank you so very much. I LOVE that what I am doing is making people happy! I still can’t get over how many page views Southern Plate is getting!!
I had almost four million in December!!!
I LOVE getting to do this and thats all because of people like you who let me know you are enjoying it!!!
Thank you!!!
Christy
This is one of the recipes we made in 6th grade beginning home-ec class in 1972. Instead of the cinnamon sugar, we mixed powdered sugar with milk or water until it was like a very thin frosting and drizzled it over the top–made them like Krispy Kremes. Thanks for the memory.
thank YOU!
That does sound like fun. I think the cinnamon sugar is my favorite because of how it forms such a nice coating with the melted butter and then you can get it to flake off in your mouth and you have this buttery, cinnamony, sugary explosion…not that I have ever eaten one, of course ~winks~
Evidently, I’m the only one that can’t do these. I thought I was doing everything right. My dough, butter and stuff was ready, my grease was hot….I tried a hole, and it looked like it did what it was supposed to, but seemed really quick. I threw in about 3 donuts and as soon as I the last one was it, I needed to turn them. Well, visually they looked pretty. I couldn’t help it, I had to try one……gooey. My problem was, in order to cook them through, they were about overdone on the outside. They weren’t burnt yet but close. Well……….we ate ‘em anyway.
I was scared to turn them down for fear that the grease would soak into them. What’s odd, I can make indian fry bread in my fry daddy, that tastes just like you get at a pow wow (throw you some pie filling and powdered sugar, or taco stuff………mmmmm) but I can’t do something so similar and simple.
What’d I do wrong?!
Help me, the closest Krispy Kreme is over an hour away!!!
Don’t you worry, Cookie, I’ve had this happen before, too!
Your oil just needs to be turned down a bit. I actually did the same thing today, had my oil a wee bit too hot for the first batch and turned it down a bit for the second. If you are cooking them on medium high or say a 7, I’d turn it down to medium or a 5.
If you are cooking medium, turn it down a notch or two. Just give it five minutes or so at that heat to get good and hot and then cook them as usual. You’ll be just fine and they will get done in the center.
The jelly filled ones I posted today are especially trick with gooey centers so you really have to make sure you have hot oil, but not so hot that it cooks the outside instantly.
If this doesn’t help, give me another holler here and I’ll elaborate more or if you just want to provide more details and see if I can tell you a bit more, feel free!
Christy
I reckon I have to remember to get me somemore canned biscuits and try again. Well, you must have esp(n)lol, cause I was thinking bout jelly filled and boston creme(which are my favorite donuts, after glazed and topped with chocolate) and what do u do?! post ‘em!!! Can’t believe my luck
SEE!! It was meant to be!! you NEEEEEEED these! they are calling your name!!!
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COOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!
WE NEED DOUGHNUTS!!!
I wrote a letter to someone’s rear end on the comments section of Baby Boston Cremes. You might want to read it aloud to yours if you need more motivation
hehe
its towards the bottom on the comments section.
yeah, i got too much free time sometimes.
You were buzzed:
http://www.ohanamamablog.com/2009/01/mom-buzz-has-had-busy-week-i-am.html
Oh wow, thank you!!!
Wow! These look fantastic! I love homemade donuts.My kids used to love it when I made them.
Your site looks terrific and I’ll be returning often.
BTW: Thanks for your great feedback on my Hearty Homemade Bread article over at Suite 101.
Hey Melody!!!
Its so great to see you here! I’ve thought about that bread often but haven’t got to make it yet. You better believe it is on my list though!!!!!
Its so great to have you here, I’m gushing!!!!
Welcome to Southern Plate! Please do come back often, sit a spell and get comfy! Food’ll be passed around soon, always is!
Gratefully,
christy
Would these work with Butter Tastin’ Homestyle Grands?
ABSOTIVELY POSOLUTELY!
Just make sure your oil is on about medium and let it heat up for several several minutes. You have to cook them a weeeee bit lower to get them good and done in the center but you still want to only put them in fully heated oil so they won’t go soaking it up.
They will work and they will be yummilicious.
Gratefully,
Christy
Christy, I just made these today and posted them on my blog. Wow, they were absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing such an easy recipe, my hubby and I thank you!
Hey!! That is an awesome post and a great blog! I am so flattered, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this reminds me of my grandma, she used to make them for me when i was younger..
I’m sorry sweetie but why not make them now with how much she loved you and how much you loved her in mind?
I still get to share times with my Grandaddy and Great Grandmother when I am in the kitchen making their favorites.
Wistfully,
Christy
I love making donuts like this. It’s been a long time since I’ve done them but they are soo good. I’ve added you back on to my blog roll on Momma Cooks Cooking.
Okay, because I loved them SO MUCH – I made them Saturday – I posted about it on my blog too.
http://www.themombuzz.com/2009/01/where-to-go-only-one-place.html
PLUS, I am going to mention your other donut recipes too on Ohana Mama tomorrow! LOL! I am loving your recipes. Hubby is very excited about your boston creme pies.
They look fantastic.. I bet you can up them up one notch by doing a hot glaze in lue of cin/sugar…yummy
Cool! An easy recipe to make some for my donut-lovin’ hubby and Princess…well, and me too!
Thanks bunches, I’m gonna pick up the ingredients this week and make some decadence! 
I’m with the rest of you who love these! And if you haven’t tried them–you are missing out. NOW I can’t wait to try the Baby Boston Creme Pies–since they are my ABSOLUTE favorite donut.
Thank you soooo much for posting this quick, easy, and fun recipe! Do you know how many recipes I’ve tried for “quick, easy” donuts–and never been satisfied–until this prize winner!
I’m hooked.
Sheri
You should have seen my kitchen this weekend girl – you woulda laughed your socks off! The girls and I got greedy and made ALL these and tried some different things too. All the doughnut holes got thrown in a sack with powdered sugar and we found a “twinkie filling” recipe and stuffed some of those bad boys with it. NUM YUMMY!!!!!!! Now just to clarify – we only made a few of each kind, we just had to try EVERYTHING!
Normally when I attempt to cook with the two teen age girls it ends up being a less than uplifting experience, but with your step by step photo recipes they can look at it and decide who will do what. My perfectionist doesn’t feel the need to bellow orders at my lazy daisy and so on and so forth
You make cooking fun and easy and I appreciate you so much
[...] Which led me to this post. I didn’t even intend to post again (I’ve got my Friday memes post all lined up, I figured I’d see ya tomorrow!). But, with a mind to solve that sweet craving, I set around the wall to the kitchen, after copying down the specifics at the site I could find the recipe (it was mentioned here, which pointed me here). [...]
Not quite foolproof! If the oil is too hot, you can completely blacken a doughnut in about 20 seconds! But I worked it out and we ate the other 9 …
We made these doughnuts this weekend and they were a huge HIT! Now all we need is that yummy KK glaze to go on top!
Another SP hit with my family. Thanks girl!
I was raised on these! We used to make them out camping too-we put the cinnamon sugar in a paper bag and the cook could just fork the donut out of the oil and into the bag-then out of the bag and into the mouth!
So delicious!!!!!
Thanks for sharing.
I’ll try to make it at home. thank you so much!
Christy- This recipe looks sooo yummy. Do you think that if I used the pillsbury frozen biscuits (after they defrost)? I bought a bunch of bags at the last bloom triple coupon and my kids don’t like them very much,so I thought this might be a good way to use them up.Thanks, Janice Moody
[...] assistant (aka – my niece) and I made a batch of Christy Jordan’s (of Southern Plate fame) Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts. WOW! They were delicious!! They were so easy to make and they definitely melt in your [...]
Christy,
My niece and I made a batch of these for Sunday brunch today. OH MY WORD! They were delicious!! Thanks so much for the recipe (I’m new, directed here from Southern Savers!). I’m really looking forward to trying a lot of the recipes you have posted here!!
Thanks again!
I needed something quick for breakfast so I made these! They were great! As a kid we used to make them and just sprinkle with powdered sugar but this way is MUCH better! Thanks!
My mom use to make these for me growing up. It was such a treat for us, especially when we got old enough to help her make them.
We just made these for the first time.
SOOOO easy, and soooo tasty! I’m convinced
you’re TRYING to keep me fat! lol
Thanks for the easy recipe. My teenagers will
love using this recipe for sleepovers.
Thanks for the recipe, I will try this one out some day. First I need to run off some kilos……..
I just have to let you know that we made these the other night for my daughter’s sleepover party. Actually we made all the boston cream and the jelly too. She was SOO excited to be making them for her friends breakfast! She turned 9 and had her first sleepover! Not sure why the word sleep is in that word!! lol These were the best donuts I have ever had! A HUGE hit with all of the girls. We will be making these again. I think I will include them in our camping menu too!
Thanks so much
hey Christy,
I made these for 5 of my grandchildren over the weekend!! They loved them..will be making more!!!
[...] true. I couldn’t help myself. I’m such a pushover. I’ve been thinking about these doughnuts for months and while perusing the biscuit aisle of my grocery, well…you know what happened. [...]
Why don’t you include a link on your homepage (or recipe pages) so that we could easily print your recipe. I love your idea for homemade doughnuts, but I won’t spend 30 minutes writing down the recipe. Help us out–we’re your fans!
I’m doing the best I can, honest!
I already spend over six hours each day working on Southern Plate and it’s about all I can do. I know some days my family wonders what life must be like with folded laundry and a clean house, lol.
Making recipes printer friendly requires software that I don’t have on my computer so I have to put them in document form, email them to my husband, have him format them and upload them, then embed the link. It takes quite some time to get all of that done and so far I just haven’t been able to come up with it.
Most folks just copy and paste and then print it in a word document on their computer. I have instructions on how to do this on my Frequently Asked Questions page, its super easy and will revolutionize the way you use the computer!
Thank you very much for reading and commenting, Barry, hope my response helps!
Gratefully,
Christy
Hey Christy i think you doing a wonderful job
i love to cook and i really like all the easy and inexpensive recipes that you have.
Thank you and keep up the good work!!
And a Happy New Year to you and your family and all of Southern Plate
Oh my gosh!!! I’d forgotten all about making these when I was in college (in the dark ages) when the only cooking equipment we were permitted to have were electric hot water kettles and popcorn poppers. You know — the kind you had to put oil and popcorn kernels in and then turn on until it was mostly finished popping??? Well, the WONDERFUL thing about those popcorn poppers is that they also get oil the PERFECT temperature to make these doughnuts! We’d skip Chapel (required attendance every Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.) occasionally to stay in the dorm and eat doughnuts. What a treat!
Thanks for the trip down memory land and yet ANOTHER great idea of a way to make memories for my family, Christy!
I tried making these today, and the insides were still a little doughy, okay, a lot doughy, as in, not cooked.
What did I do wrong? I used the Pillsbury Grand’s Buttermilk biscuits (but not the flaky layers kind).
They even got darker (deep golden brown) than shown, so I THOUGHT I had left them in long enough.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
We are snowed in and I made these for my family today. I didn’t realize until everything was ready to go that I had the flaky style biscuits. I decided to try anyway and they were really good – I’m sure they’re even better w/ the recommended biscuits. I will be making these again. Thanks for an awesome recipe!
I remember these! Made these with my mom in the winter when I was a wee one! Nice memory.