Start with an empty scotch tape roll. Take the dispenser apart and then use a pair of scissors or a wire cutter to trim the spool down to a little tube like this.
Buy the cheapest brand of biscuits you can find, you know those tubes that POP when you unpeal the outside?
Use the trimmed-down scotch tape spool and cut out the centers of your biscuits. Save the middles for later.
Heat up a bottle of vegetable oil in a good heavy pot.
VERY carefuly put the "donuts" in the oil once it's good and hot. If you drop them in, the oil will splash up and burn your hand!
We have a cool metal dipper thingy we could lower them into the oil with.
Watch the dough, it cooks fast. Force them to rotate with the handle of a wooden spoon. When they are nice and golden, lift them out and set them on some paper towels to dry and cool a little.
Then cover them! We tried brown sugar with cinnamon, but the sugar didn't stick at all. Cocoa powder with powdered sugar was delicious, but super messy (the mixture stayed kind of fudgy). Plain old sugar was very successful.
If you take the donut and rotate it in the sugar, then stand it on its side and "roll" it through the sugar like a tire, you get really good coverage.
It ends up being more like frybread than donuts, but a fun way to pass the afternoon on a cold February day!
1 comment:
Looks like family fun.
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