- Hey everyone,
Ayesha Curry here.
I am super excited to be bringing you one
of my favorite comfort meals today.
It's one of those recipes when you just want a warm hug.
My maple bacon glazed donuts.
Fried dough.
Can you go wrong?
I don't think so.
I know that sounds intimidating,
but I promise you it's so easy.
It's so comforting.
And it's from my new cookbook,
"The Full Plate" that is out now.
I'm gonna show you guys
what the finished product is going to look like.
So gorgeous and delicious.
Guys, I have a secret though.
This is definitely a hack recipe
so it's something when you don't have much time,
you don't have all the ingredients.
You don't want to deal with making a dough.
This is your recipe because we are using
store bought canned biscuits.
Yes.
Let's jump right in.
So here's what you're gonna need.
You're gonna need some oil.
I'm using canola oil.
I've got it heating on the stove.
We're gonna get it to about 375.
I've got my canned biscuits.
I've got a bowl for the maple bacon icing we're gonna make.
Powdered sugar,
a little vanilla extract,
maple syrup,
and some yummy, yummy bacon bits here, okay?
You can make bacon and chop it up beforehand.
You can use the store bought bacon bits.
It really doesn't matter.
Okay, let's jump right in.
Lately the husband and I have been loving donuts
late night after we put the kids to bed.
We play cards, we drink wine, and we have donuts.
Sometimes we're buying them from the store
but sometimes it's just easier to make them.
Especially these days that most
of us are quarantined at home.
Gonna pop this open.
(pounding counter)
There we go.
Take these out and you'll see you're left
with them like this.
And obviously donuts have a hole,
so what I like to do is flatten them out
a little bit just like so,
and I realize if a lot of us are using store bought dough,
odds are you don't have a one inch cookie cutter,
one inch round cookie cutter.
It's fine.
I'm the same today.
I found a cap that's about an inch
and it does the same thing.
So I'm gonna take my little cap
or my round cookie dough cutter
and we're just gonna cut a little hole in it.
Best part is you get donut holes for free.
On my grocery list every week,
I typically have that canned biscuit dough
just because you never know what's gonna happen.
So I like that you typically have the ingredients on hand.
If you're not in a maple bacon-y mood,
don't worry.
Cinnamon sugar, regular powdered sugar,
little drizzle of honey on them does the same trick.
It's so funny because growing up,
I didn't necessarily crave donuts.
But now in my adulthood,
it's like my go to late night snack.
Once you have all
of your biscuits doughs shaped into donuts,
it's time to head over to the stove and fry these up.
All right guys.
So my oil is getting nice and hot.
Again, we wanna get it to about 375
and I'm just gonna lay these into the oil
and they're gonna start to fry up
into a nice and golden brown.
It's gonna be about two minutes per side.
You don't wanna overcrowd the pan.
Just make sure that the donuts are not touching.
You'll see they might sink a little bit
but then the rise up to the top
and start their goldening process.
So we're gonna do our donuts first
and then might as well do the donut holes, right?
I love a good hack.
I really do.
Especially with kids right now
and making three to five meals a day because of quarantine.
It's nice to have some life hacks like this ready to go.
The best part is while these cool
we're gonna make the icing,
and so it allows you to make sure
that those donuts are cooled through.
At least room temperature
or else it's gonna get all melty and soggy.
Doing it all you guys.
Okay, it's been about two minutes
and now we're gonna go ahead and give these bad boys a flip.
Look at that golden brown color you guys.
I mean, it just doesn't get any better than that.
Oh, these are gorgeous.
Oh yeah, baby.
Now I'm gonna remove them from the heat
and these are gonna cool while we make the icing.
You guys look.
They already look so delicious.
Get those donut holes in.
These are gonna take about two minutes tops all together.
Give 'em a flip.
I think it's just too cool how they round out like that.
Get a little air bubble in 'em.
All right.
Our donut holes are done.
So I'm gonna remove those and we'll go back over
to the countertop and glaze these babies up.
All right you guys,
so we have our gorgeous donuts here ready to go.
They are cooling.
We are gonna move on to making our icing.
It's super simple.
We just need a quarter cup of maple syrup
and about a cup or so of powdered sugar.
A splash of vanilla.
Boop.
Gonna whisk it all together and make our icing.
We just wanna whisk this.
You can do it with a fork as well.
You don't have to use a whisk.
We wanna get it all together so that it forms a thick paste.
Do you want it a little bit thicker
than you would if you were drizzling it
because you want it to coat that donut and stay there.
See that?
You want it to slowly drip off that whisk.
You wanna make sure all of that sugars combine
into a smooth paste.
Our donuts are cool.
It's time to assemble the team.
All we're gonna do is take our donuts,
dip them into the icing,
give them a little turn.
Look at that you guys.
Oh my gosh.
Then you take the bacon.
Leave the bacon off if you're not a bacon fan.
And again,
you can play around with the combinations.
I've even done honey lavender before.
The possibilities are endless.
Maple bacon glazed donuts life hack
with the canned biscuits from my new cookbook,
"The Full Plate."
From my home to yours, enjoy.
Bye, guys.
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