29 Reviews of Chinese Buffet Style Donuts

From: Lakshmigirl

On Nov 6, 2006

Excellent! This is the first time I actually have made doughnuts. I had a bar of Hershey's milk chocolate ( left over from Halloween). I broke off one small square, flatened out the biscuit dough, then fold the dough over the square of chocolate and pinched the ends. 2 minutes is all you need in terms of cooking time. Rolling it in the sugar after the doughnut is blotted is a MUST. I had a bad day, but making these tonight made me feel good!

From: LauraTracey

On Jul 7, 2003

These were always a big hit in college - we'd stay up late to study drinking incredibly strong coffee and eating these!!! For this recipe, the cheaper ones are better! Don't try the flaky ones, they don't come out right!

From: "Pink Eyed" Jim Cortina

On Jan 2, 2004

OH MY GOD! These were so good. These doughnuts are my favorite part of a chinese buffet, I often get a few each time I go up to the buffet. Now I can have them in the comfort of my own home and they take about 10 minutes. It doesn't get any better.

From: Hunkle

On Jan 18, 2007

My 7 year old son loves to help me make this recipe (I do the deep frying. He punches the holes in the biscuits). We've tried several variations and have settled on lightly coating the biscuit dough in sugar before frying then rolling them in sugar again afterwards. Fun and tasty. Thanks for sharing.

From: ms_bold

On Jan 12, 2004

This is one of my husband's favorite treats. We use cheap buttermilk biscuits and cut them in half to shorten cook time. (I think that they are better when just golden...I don't like the outside to be too hard.) I also use peanut oil for most deep frying. It does not impart a greasy taste on the foods. I know that you can glaze these, or use cinnamon and sugar...I love them just like this.

From: finest14

On Oct 1, 2003

Fast and easy treat. I've made them as a glaze and chocolate doughnut as well for variety.

From: Braunda

On Aug 25, 2003

Thank You ..you helped me surpise my daughter. Well for that fact my hubby. I ended up making 30 of these. We added more sugar and then on the last batch we added cinnamon with the sugar. They were gone in a flash. Thank You for helping me make my daughter and hubby happy. Easy and fast and fresh. Hugs to you

From: CrewCrews

On Jan 13, 2007

This is exactly the way I [vaguely] remember Mom doing it! Tonight at dinner when I opened what I thought were layered biscuits I discovered they were in fact regular biscuits and I had flashbacks to my childhood and my Mom making 'home-made' donuts- so after dinner I checked the 'Zaar and sure enough this was the first one to pop up! I had the small cans of rolls- used my apple corer to make holes.. and used an 8" fry pan 2/3 full of oil. (I used Safflower Oil) I heated the oil on high with my gas stove-- and ran a temperature "test" with one of the donut holes. Med-Med-Hi worked best for me once the oil was hot. They surprised me how quick they cook, and we "tossed" (rubbed in bowl) with cinnamon sugar. The result was yummy and a great bribery for my 6 & 8 year olds. At dinner it was "Finish your dinner if you want to make donuts." Then after making the donuts it was "Get your jammies on if you want to EAT any donuts!" It has never been so easy to get the kids through dinner and ready for bed!

From: Chef #387283

On Jun 25, 2007

My family loved these, easy and fast, I used buttermilk biscuits (large size) and powdered sugar. I used a deep sauce pan with canola oil. Cut each biscuit in quarters came out perfect. Took about 15 min total from start to finish - the item that took the most time was getting the oil hot.

From: Chef Naomi

On Mar 10, 2005

We have these at camp outs. We heat up oil in a cast iron kettle with lid over hot coals from camp fire. We stretch a hole in the middle of the biscuit and waa laa campfire donut! Thank you for posting!