How to Cook Camping Doughnuts
Like most food, doughnuts taste even better when you’re camping. Here’s a simple recipe to cook fresh doughnuts on your next outing.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- 1 large can refrigerated buttermilk biscuits. Pillsbury Grands! Homestyle Buttermilk Biscuits or the equivalent work well. Avoid using “flaky” type biscuits.
- Vegetable oil
- Frying pan or Dutch oven
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup confectioners or powdered sugar
- 2 lunch-size brown paper bags
WHAT YOU’LL DO
SAFETY FIRST! Hot oil can splatter, burn or catch fire, so please ask an adult for help before trying this recipe.
1. Separate the refrigerated biscuits.
2. Use a knife to cut a hole in each biscuit. You can also use the cap from the vegetable oil for perfect circles.
3. Heat about 2 inches of vegetable oil in a frying pan or Dutch oven and add as many biscuits as will fit. The hot oil can splatter, so be very careful!
4. Fry the biscuits for a few minutes, flipping them over with a fork or tongs when they are golden brown.
5. When the doughnuts are done, remove them from the pan and put them on a paper towel to soak up excess oil.
6. For cinnamon-covered doughnuts, combine the sugar and cinnamon in a paper bag. Add the doughnuts and shake well until the doughnuts are covered.
7. For powdered sugar doughnuts, put the confectioners sugar in a paper bag. Add the doughnuts and shake well until the doughnuts are covered. This works best if the doughnuts are still warm.
8. Remove doughnuts from bags and enjoy.
9. Don’t forget to cook the doughnut holes, too!
Food does not taste better when your camping.
Learned to make these when I was a scout in the late 60’s and early 70’s. On my 25th year of making these every April on our troops Great Sand Dunes campout. I do use the smaller biscuits to make smaller donuts and the cap from a small propane bottle to cut the hole. Scouts say this is one of their favorite memories of this campout.
Our troop makes these one night during our weeklong summer camp every year. We call it “Night of A Thousand Donuts” and we invite all the camp counselors to stop by. No, we wouldn’t want to eat like this all the time, but it sure is a legendary night during a week filled with exercise. Our Scouts have always looked forward to it.
I have been doing this for over 25 years. For Troop 357
Yeah no way. With most of the Scouts being far out of shape and the aim of Scouting is fitness, I will not endorse this at all. How about some recipes that are more in line with the cooking merit badge and keep myself physically strong.
I cant wait to make these!😀
We just made these for scout Sunday… 520 of them… icing was used as well! The best Donut variation ons is to cut it in half, put icing in the middle and then put the two halves back together, fry it. When done, put a sugar glaze over it (powdered sugar and water), more icing, and then powdered sugar over it all. Split by this between 4 kids if you need them calm.
wow very cool ill try to get my cast iron chef