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!
Great receipe, been using over 35 years! Strain the (cooled) oil through a paper towel for best results.
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I did this on my Webelos/AoL campout last year. One of my AoLs asked “can we try some with the Hot Chocolate mix in the bag” Now hot chocolate donuts are asked for on every campout.
Great idea, thank you for sharing!!!
That sounds yummy!!
We make these every camping trip on the last day for breakfast since there’s hardly any mess to clean up. Grandkids love to shake these in a bag with powdered sugar. Try putting a spoonful of Nutella in the middle of the biscuit and roll it into a ball and fry. We buy the cheapest biscuits in the 4-pack and works great.
I am going to surprise my family in a campout that i can make doughnuts(donuts)
Delicious
We buy the cheapest biscuits you can find. We get 4-packs at Walmart.
YUM!
Oil at 355-360-degrees.
My troop has done these for years. Keep the oil from smoking or it’s too hot. If they cook too fast they are not completely cooked. The scout don’t seem to care .
use the regular buttermilk bisquits and pinch the hole and stretch out the dough in a larger ring.
Dip in a bowl of simple glaze made with powder sugar and water.
Use shortening and allow to harden back in frying pan, store in freezer and reuse.