Make donut shop donuts in your home in under 20 minutes! Biscuit dough donuts are easy to make and so yummy dipped in chocolate, maple or vanilla icing!
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword homemade donuts, biscuit dough donuts, fried donuts, maple donuts
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 2 minutesminutes
cooling 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 22 minutesminutes
Servings 8donuts
Calories 308kcal
Ingredients
1packagerefrigerated biscuit dough 8 ct.
canola oilfor frying
Chocolate Glaze
3/4cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
2Tbsp.butter
1Tbsp.honey
1Tbsp.milk
Maple Glaze
1/4cupbutter
1/3cupbrown sugar
2Tbsp.maple syrup
1/2 teaspoonmaple extract
2-3Tbsp.milk
2cuppowdered sugar
Vanilla Glaze
1/4cupbutter
1Tbsp.honey
2Tbsp.milk
1teaspoonvanilla
2cuppowdered sugarsifted
Instructions
Flatten biscuit dough for donut bars and leave in circles for donuts.
To make a hole for the donuts, simply press your thumb through the center.
Heat about 2″ of oil in a deep frying pan to 350 degrees.
Place donuts in hot oil and fry on each side for about a minute, or until golden brown.
Remove from oil and place onto a cooling rack with paper towels underneath to catch excess oil.
Dip each donut into the glaze, allowing the excess to drip off.
Chocolate Glaze
Heat chocolate, butter and honey in microwave for 30 seconds. Stir until smooth. Microwave for an additional 10-15 seconds if necessary. Stir in milk.
Maple Glaze
Heat butter, brown sugar and syrup in microwave for 30 seconds, or until butter has melted. Stir. Add maple extract and milk. Stir in powdered sugar.
Vanilla Glaze
Heat butter and honey in microwave until melted. Stir. Add milk and vanilla. Stir in powdered sugar.
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Notes
If you’d like to roll in cinnamon sugar do that while the donuts are hot. If you’d like to glaze the donuts, let them cool.Air fryer version: Set in air fryer and turn the temp to 350. Cook for 4 minutes. Take the biscuits out and flip them over. Cook for 2 to 4 minutes longer.