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Cinnamon Sugar Air Fryer Donuts
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Looking for a quick and easy recipe you can make in your Air Fryer? These Easy Air Fryer Donuts are just that! They only take a few minutes to fry, roll them in the delicious cinnamon sugar mixture and then serve them for breakfast or a quick and easy snack or treat. When you are craving homemade doughnuts and are short on time take these biscuits, toss them in your air fryer and enjoy a warm flaky donut in minutes!
Air Fryer Donuts
Freshly baked homemade donuts without the grease, fuss or muss! Am I your hero today? Oh yeah!!! I know you love donuts and there are several on the blog – Cinnamon Frosted Cream Cheese Banana Donuts, Drizzled Snickerdoodle Donuts (these are seriously over-the-top!) and baked Toasted Coconut Red Velvet Donuts so decadent.
But you know what makes these even better?
We’re going to use the air fryer to make delicious donuts quickly and easily – no grease, no mess and you will love them!
We also love making Air Fryer Chicken Parmesan for the same reason! No grease and it’s still crispy on the outside!
Air Fryer Donut Recipes
My husband was out moving snow around the yard, story of our life lately, and when he came in his eyes lit up as I was testing this recipe!
Our little one calls donuts, don-dons, and he was running around the house yelling it as I took pictures.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree does it?
As my husband gobbled one of these easy donuts up that I made in the air fryer he’s asked me how I made them and as I went on to tell him it was actually a biscuit, baked in our air fryer and then rolled in butter and cinnamon sugar he couldn’t believe it!
When I informed him it only took about 15 minutes to make I’m pretty sure he was hoping I’d make these every morning for him!
Hate to tell you all that I DO NOT make these for breakfast every morning, but they are such an easy treat for breakfast or snack in the afternoon that I highly recommend treating yourself to them!
What ingredients do I need to make Air Fryer Donut Recipe
- flaky jumbo biscuits
- sugar
- cinnamon
- butter
- olive or coconut oil spray
What you may need to make Air Fryer Donuts
- An Air Fryer (of course!)
- These Biscuit Cutters are perfect to cut out the holes.
- No biscuit cutter? A bottle cap or even a shot glass will work in a pinch!
How to Make Quick Air Fryer Donuts
- In a shallow bowl combine the sugar and cinnamon, set aside.
- Open the can and separate the biscuits and lay them out on a flat surface. Using a small biscuit cutter cut holes out of the center of each biscuit.
- Save the center to make donut holes!
- Spray the fryer basket with coconut oil spray.
- Place the donuts in a single layer in the air fryer basket, care to make sure they do not touch!
- Bake at 360 degrees for 5 minutes or until lightly browned.
- While they are baking, melt the butter.
- As soon as they are done, remove the donuts, dip in melted butter then roll in cinnamon sugar to coat. Serve immediately.
Here’s an important tip – Do not use non-stick spray like Pam when spraying the inside of your Air Fryer because it can damage the coating on the basket!
Full disclosure, these aren’t going to take exactly like your favorite donut shop, but for a quick and easy snack, these are a wonderful treat for an easy breakfast or a quick snack. Kids big and small will love them!
More delicious breakfast recipes!
- Baked Pumpkin French Toast Recipe
- Cranberry Cream Cheese Muffins
- Baked Samoa Donuts
- Healthier Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
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Air Fryer Donuts
Quick and Easy Air Fryer Donuts that are made from refrigerated biscuits! This recipe is so delicious and easy.
Print Pin RatePrep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 8
Calories: 316kcal
Ingredients
- 16 oz refrigerated flaky jumbo biscuits
- 1/2 c. granulated white sugar
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 4 Tbsp butter melted
- olive or coconut oil spray
Instructions
- Combine sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl; set aside.
- Remove the biscuits from the can, separate them and place them on a flat surface. Use a 1-inch round biscuit cutter (or similarly-sized bottle cap) to cut holes out of the center of each biscuit.
- Lightly coat air fryer basket with olive or coconut oil spray. Do not use non-stick spray like Pam because it can damage the coating on the basket.
- Place 4 donuts in a single layer in the air fryer basket. Make sure they are not touching.
- Bake at 360 degrees F for 5 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Remove donuts from Air Fryer, dip in melted butter then roll in cinnamon sugar to coat. Serve immediately.
Nutrition
Calories: 316kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 585mg | Potassium: 127mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 175IU | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 1.9mg
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I just bought my Air friar i am so excited to learn more about it so whatever you go send it please and thank you Cheri
Hope you love them Cheri!
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I don’t have a comment, I have a question. You nicely supply the nutritional value for the Air Fryer donuts. My question is is that for all the donuts or just one? If it for all the donuts, I would like to meet the person who would ear an entire can of biscuits!
Thanks in advance,
Darlene Brooks
As you can see in the recipe card it’s marked as 8 servings, therefore it would be per donut.
Talk about don’t shoot the messenger. How about common sense! Do you really think it was for the whole can?
You had me at “without the grease”! Looks amazing!
Such a quick and easy treat!
I have been wanting to buy an Air Fryer and have been looking at various brands. I know that you do not endorse products, bur would appreciate if you could share some of your thoughts with me about the ones that you have researched/tried.
Thank you.
Mary Ann Naylor
Hi Mary Ann! This is the one I have (https://amzn.to/2TuaPiE – affiliate link) and I love it but I haven’t tried any other one!
Julie, you are going to bankrupt me! First I need to buy a Traeger smoker, and now I need to buy an air fryer! Your recipes just look so dang good! (Now are you going to smoke a doughnut on your Traeger? I swear, there’s nothing you can’t do on that thing!)
LOL! I’ll put my husband on that recipe development!
Ooooh, we love donuts and spend way too much on them! Can’t wait to try these!
These are so quick and easy! Perfect in a pinch 🙂
Going to have to get an air fryer just to try this recipe! It looks incredible!
Totally worth it!
You had me at donut. Love that these are made in the air fryer…so yummy and easy!
Can’t go wrong with donuts!
Can anyone help what are the jumbo flaky biscuits that are used in this recipe please
This is what we use – Pillsbury Grands Flaky Layered Biscuit
Another time I have been burned by people putting five star reviews on things they haven’t actually made! These are bad! A biscuit topped with sugar…
In the post I say this is NOT a normal donut it’s a quick spin on a donut, so I’m not sure why you expected it to actually magically turn into a donut?
I’m so sorry that I thought a recipe that you posted was supposed to taste good or even edible! My mistake.
I agree! Fried “donut” biscuits or in this case air fried taste NOTHING like a doughnut. If I am going to waste the calories and time to make doughnuts they will be the real deal not something that is a fried biscuit. I don’t get these at all.
They came out great…I had to run my family out of the kitchen.
Thanks
Love this! Thanks for commenting and rating the recipe Staci!
O just had to make these….my husband knocked a roll of biscuits out of the refrigerator and they popped the seal. They weren’t the big fluffy ones, but I thought they might work. So, I got my M1 decorating tip out and used it to make the holes, it worked perfectly. 350 degrees for 5 mins on the doughnuts and 3 mins on the holes. Half were cinnamon and sugar, the other half were powdered sugar. He wolfed them down as quickly as they came out of the sugar.
So glad you enjoyed them, I might go drop some biscuits so I can rationalize having a treat 🙂