Recipe of the Week: Croissant Donuts

Going to try something new uploading a recipe of the week of some of my favorite meals, desserts, and snacks at Disney. Today, I'm starting off with one of my favorites in the croissant donut. Here is the recipe:

Croissant Donuts

*makes 8-12 (depending on the size of your cookie cutter)

Ingredients:

1 (8 count) tube refrigerated croissant/crescent roll dough

1 cup granulated sugar

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

flour, for dusting counter

vegetable oil, for frying

Directions:

Mix sugar and cinnamon in a shallow dish. Set aside.

Dust counter or flat surface with flour. Open tube of dough and lay out flat. At this point, the dough looks like a square, with 4 rectangles.Remove the top 2 rectangles and attach 1 to the end of the other 2 to make a long strip of dough. You'll only need the 3 rectangles at this point. You can set the 4th one aside and use it later.

Dip your fingers in flour and lightly press on the perforated marks to seal the dough.

Fold it in thirds, first the right side and then the left. Roll it out using a rolling pin until it's the size it was before.

Now fold it in thirds again. Turn it sideways and roll it again until it's slightly longer than the rolling pin.

Take a circular cookie or biscuit cutter and cut out your circles. Use a small cookie cutter or water/soda bottle cap to cut out the center circles. You can save these pieces of dough to make donut holes.

Remember the 4th rectangle from earlier? Add it to the leftover scraps and then repeat the process of rolling and cutting out circles until all the dough has been used.

Fill a deep pan with 1 inch of vegetable oil. Heat on medium-high heat or until it bubbles when a wooden utensil is inserted into the oil.

Drop your donuts in and let cook until golden brown. Flip over and let the other side cook. They should puff up and the layers will begin to separate. Remove from oil and place on paper towel-lined plate. Move to the dish with the cinnamon-sugar and coat all sides. 

Serve plain or a la mode.

Recipe and a video of Croissant Donuts can be found at TheDisneyDiner.com.