Canned biscuits serve as a base for a rich maple glaze and bacon sprinkles. There is no need for yeast! Next, try my baked eggnog donuts, red velvet cake mix donuts, and carrot cake doughnuts.

Happy Spring Equinox! And it’s snowing. I had intended to write a cheerful, Spring-y dish to remind us all that the snow will soon be gone and flowers will flourish once again. Then I glanced outside and saw snow.

Instead, let’s speak about how to make maple bacon doughnuts.

They have a maple and bacon flavor that reminds me of Vermont. I guess it helps that I used Vermont Smoke & Cure bacon and Cold Hollow Cider Mill’s Grade A medium amber maple syrup.

Let’s not forget that the slice of bacon in the center of the above image resembles the state of Vermont. Coincidence? Yes, most likely. However, still.

It’s strange.

Ingredients for maple bacon donuts

• ¾ cup Grade A medium amber maple syrup
• ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 ¼ cup powdered sugar, sifted
• ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 4 slices of thick cut bacon, baked until crispy, then crumbled
• Oil for frying
• 8 large biscuits, preferably a 16.3oz can Grands! Homestyle Buttermilk

How to make easy maple bacon donuts

Here’s the deal with these donuts: These are not, in fact, doughnuts. I had cheated. I’ll confess it. You know I don’t like shortcuts and like to create everything from scratch, but sometimes you just need a doughnut and don’t have time to go through the laborious process of creating them.

Do you want to know the shortcut? Make use of canned biscuits. I’ll give you a minute to get your jaw back up off the floor.

It’s incredibly simple and involves almost little effort. Take a can of biscuits (not the very flaky variety, that would be a mess; I used Grands Homestyle Buttermilk) and cut out the center of each biscuit with something tiny and round.

I had a collection of circular cookie cutters of various sizes, and the smallest one worked well.

Don’t waste the middles! You can make mini donut holes out of them.

The next step is to heat some oil in a skillet and fry each biscuit for a few seconds on each side. You’ve got doughnuts. These come out lighter than a cakey doughnut, which is exactly what I like about them.

Since it’s not heavy, it’s alright that I topped it with maple glaze and bacon. Right? Right.

Have a look at those objects. Looking at them makes my mouth wet, yet I was just eating them.

I’m not really hungry, yet I still want to stuff at least two more into my mouth.

I’ll simply let you look at them for a bit. Don’t worry, I’ll wait for you.

Have you already gone to the kitchen? If that’s the case, you should probably return.

If you don’t keep scrolling down, you won’t know how to build them.

Are you sold yet?

You are, of course! Go forth and spread the maple-y bacon-y joy.