Happy Friday to you all! I have the perfect sweet breakfast for you to make over the weekend! If you have yet to experience a Cronut, I urge you to make these immediately. If you have been lucky enough to taste one of these life changing treats, I will now give you to tools to make them at home! No, this isn’t real Croissant Dough, just a fun way to make a Cronut in a pinch! I give you, the Easy Homemade Cronut.
Ingredients
For dough:
4-8 Cups Canola oil (depending on depth of pan, need enough to make oil 2″ deep)
2 (8-ounce) cans of crescent rolls
2 snack-size (4-ounce) container vanilla pudding
For glaze:
4 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Directions
In a dutch oven or heavy pot, pour oil so it is at least 2 inches deep. Heat oil to 350 degrees.
Separate crescent dough into 8 rectangles. Press the perforations together on each rectangle to seal. Stack 2 rectangles on top of one another. Press them together gently, then fold in half width-wise. Repeat with remaining rectangles.
Use a 3-inch-round biscuit cutter to cut 1 round from each stack, and then use a 1-inch-round biscuit cutter to cut a small hole in the center of each round. Reserve the remaining dough and re-roll to cut another doughnut.
Fry the dough in hot oil for 1- 1 1 /2 minutes on each side or until deep golden brown and cooked through. Drain on paper towels, and cool for 5 minutes.
Vanilla glaze: In a medium bowl, mix 4 cups of powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and then add milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until a smooth, glaze-like consistency forms.
Cinnamon sugar: In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon, mix together.
Assembly: Carefully split a a doughnut in half. Place pudding in a piping bag with a tip. Pipe vanilla pudding in the center. Sandwich the halves back together, drizzle vanilla glaze over the top, and sprinkle on the cinnamon sugar.
Recipe slightly adapted from YumSugar.
These were so yummy!
Who loves making doughnuts at home?
I’m bringing these over to the Fiesta Friday Party!
I love everything from cake to kale. Life is all about balance. I like to live, laugh and love to the fullest! Our time is too short not to enjoy ourselves.
Crony looks delish Sarah. ..happy FF. ..have a fab week end..
Thanks Chitra! Happy FF to you too 🙂
Hi Sarah, how many calories in one??? Oh my I think I could may be eat 1/2 dozen!! Have a great, safe weekend. Cheryl.
Weekend calories don’t count 😉 Have a great weekend!
Oh yea I forgot that fact! Hooray for me….Cheryl
I have never ventured to get my hands on a “real” cronut- your homemade version sounds like a much better option 🙂 Thanks!
I haven’t had the real thing either, but I can say these are quite tasty!
They look so yummy Sarah 🙂 Nice breakfast and Happy FF!
Thank you! They’re very yummy indeed! Happy FF!
Dangerously delicious!
I concur!!! 😉
They changed my ‘life’ when i had one in soho NYC.. and now i have a recipe!
That’s awesome! I’m a little jealous 🙂
I am more jealous.. You made em!
This recipe is very much appreciated, I’m so bad at deep-frying that I fell in love when someone does it so perfectly! Beautiful! Thanks a lot for bringing it to FF!
You’re too kind! It’s really quite simple 🙂 Thank you so much!
Oh my! This went straight to my heart, Sarah. Love me a cronut, errr, actually any donuts. 🙂 These look beautiful.
So happy you liked the post! I’m with you, any donut 🙂
These sound really yummy. So much easier to make than they look too!
Thanks Corina! They’re really easy to make!
Havent had a cronut yet, but your version looks fabulous! Thanks fr the recipe 🙂
Thank you!
Looks like doughnut:-) yummy
🙂 Thank you!
This is phenomenal!! I dont know if i can make this…but man that looks soo amazing! 🙂
Thanks! It’s really easy, you can do it 🙂
dream meal right here. Would love to collaborate on some college dorm friendly recipes!
Thanks!