Do-It-Yourself Donuts

These are homeade donuts we made as a family this weekend.  

Thanks to my friend, Christa, and her DELICIOUS recipe for do it yourself donuts, we changed up our Friday morning breakfast routine and enjoyed some dang good donuts.   (Check out her blog for step by step instructions).  

I followed her directions, but wasn't sure if I had the right biscuits or even what size hole to cut out of the middle so that aspect was an experiment for us.  I tried a few different things with one batch, cooked them to see what worked best, then held off the second batch until we knew what worked best.  

I learned that biscuits do expand when you cook them.  If you have a little one, they don't mind eating small donut holes (what you see in the pan). It's better to not punch out too big of a hole in the center because then the biscuit seems to have too much "crispy-ness" to it versus actual donut.  Check out the picture with the dough, that size hole worked great! 

 These donuts are really good with powdered sugar on them, too.   We shook the donuts in a brown paper bag like Christa suggested.  We also covered a few with regular sugar.  They were good too, but we dusted a lot of the sugar off, it was just a little too much sweetness for us.    

If you're looking for a new weekend breakfast idea, you've got to try this one!  You and your family will LOVE IT!  I promise!  I'm willing to pay $7.00 each for cans of biscuits over here.. so go pick up a few $1.75 cans- you won't regret it!!  

 

 

 

Enjoy!