Hello and welcome to another edition of Mashable's Air Friday.
I am culture reporter Tim Morrison. And this Friday we are making air fried donuts.
All right.
Now, to be clear,
these aren't your traditional style of doughnuts.
This recipe comes from Tik-Tok, an account called The Hooker Fan.
And this was a mom on Tok who was making doughnuts for her kids.
And it went very viral. But the trick is we're just using biscuit dough.
The recipe is for kind of like a trick biscuit doughnut.
So it's going to be biscuit dough, some sugar,
some cinnamon and some butter. We're an air fryer to see if it turns out good.
So, yeah,
let's see if we can make some kind of doughnuts in the air fryer.
But I find to be the most difficult part of any biscuit dough recipe getting this damn package
open. You're supposed to pop and then press.
And Peel says on the back, I'm going to lean down on a cutting board here.
So you're not going to see that part to try to pop it, because I always seem to do this wrong.
I don't get how people do it so easily.
It doesn't seem like it's that simple, but I guess every cook has their issues and this
apparently is mine.
When I tell you I'm still working on this thing, I'm telling you I haven't made any progress.
I don't understand how it works. I have a mental block against it.
We're going to use the magic of video editing to cut to when to get this thing open,
because apparently I just can't do it.
Okay, so we have officially removed.
Let's grab a few pre-made biscuits.
The only thing we really need to do is just cut a hole in them because we're making fake doughnuts with
them.
So if you have, like,
a cookie cutter, that's the ideal tool for this.
What I'm going to do,
because I don't have that, is take a paring knife and I'm going to cut the little
circle right on the cutting board. You can see I've made a little hole here.
I'm going to pull it out. And that looks dough nutty enough to me.
I'm going to go and repeat that process for fewer doughnuts,
about as many as I can fit in my air fryer. Probably about four.
And then we'll go to the whole butter, sugar,
cinnamon process and get this thing going.
We have four biscuits with little holes in the center.
We've got butter here and then we've got some cinnamon sugar.
Now all we're going to do is dip in butter and dip in cinnamon sugar.
So it's kind of like a frying process that you would do,
but we're just doing it with sweet and savory.
So there's our butter biscuit, which is definitely extremely buttery.
And then we've got cinnamon sugar all over it.
Bring it up to the camera so you can see it's just like a very cinnamon sugar.
You look in vain.
I'm going to throw this in the air fryer and sort of just get them all placed and then we're going to air
fry at 330 degrees for 7 minutes.
Repeat that process four times with all the donuts or every minute you want to make.
I'm going to give this a light spray as well, just to be sure nothing sticks and then we'll get
going.
You're going to go in the air fryer for 7 minutes at 330 degrees.
That's according to the hooker fam. Tick tock.
And we're going to put in there and let them go.
And hopefully at the end we have donut adjacent treats for breakfast this morning.
All right.
So our biscuit doughnuts are done cooking in the air fryer and here they are.
Now they look kind of dirty.
I probably could have cut bigger holes in them to make the hole a little more prominent because they
popped up a ton in the air fryer.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to let these rest for a minute because you will burn your tongue if you try
to eat these at this temperature, and then we're going to give it a go.
Now,
you can see it's really puffed up.
It's pretty hot on the outside still when you break it open.
Let's see what that looks like. You see the bottom.
It's really sugary.
And I mean, it looks pretty much like your classic biscuit on
the interior here. But let's give it a taste.
You. That's not a doughnut.
Doughnut, but it's definitely in the doughnut family.
It's kind of more cinnamon rolling considering we took buttery,
flaky biscuit dough and then put more butter and then cinnamon sugar in it.
It's definitely tasty.
I mean, how could that be bad?
It's a ton of, like,
really good, buttery dough with cinnamon and sugar on it.
It's going to be an absolute bomb of, like,
sweet flavors again.
Not necessarily donut, but I could see this being a super easy kind of fun
treat you would do for your family, which is exactly what the ticktock said it was.
I don't think you're going to want to make me do this every day,
but I'm pretty good.
I mean, in a pinch,
it's a good sweet. So.
Yeah, I mean,
the take time delivered on its promise, that's for sure.