Canned Biscuit Jelly Donuts

Michael headed back home today.. just a few minutes ago, in fact and Deanna is home for the first time in days, exhausted and happy after her Drama Club won first place at States competition for their play, "Oz" - they won a nice bit of award money to take it to Nebraska this summer for Nationals!

So.... a bit of 'congrats' needed.. and a bit of a treat before saying goodbye again... and so, I decided to see if I could modify the Canned Biscuit Donuts I made before into homemade Jelly Donuts.

This time I deep fried each biscuit whole, without cutting a hole in the center. And then after they'd had a few minutes to cool, I used a pastry bag set with a wide round tip and filled it with strawberry jelly (you could probably use jam, but I was afraid of a large strawberry clogging the tip. Other good fillings would be pudding, other flavors of jelly, mousse, thickened whipped cream - whatever suits your mood).

I just inserted the tip into the donut and squeezed a bit of jelly into the resulting hole.  I wasn't sure how much to put in, so I wound up injecting each donut twice, once on each side, and that seemed to work out just fine.

Then each donut got shaken in a baggie of either powdered sugar or sugar (I made four of each), and that's that - still very quick and easy.  Clean-up takes longer - this is a pretty messy project.

My verdict - they tasted great and it worked as I figured it would.  The mess while eating makes me think that next time, I'm going to cut each biscuit into quarters, so that the result is more bite sized.  But definitely, this will be repeated - I got high marks from both Michael and Deanna for this idea.

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