Quick and Easy Doughnuts

Ingredients:

• 1 can refrigerated buttermilk biscuit dough

Directions:

1. Preheat oil to 375 degrees F. Take each biscuit and flatten slightly with palm of hand. With finger, punch holes in center of each biscuit to shape into doughnuts. 
2. If desired, break biscuits into parts and roll dough between palms into balls to make bite size doughnut rounds. 
3. One by one, place dough onto slotted spoon and then into fryer. Fry for 2 minutes turning once. Remove doughnuts from oil with spoon. Place on a plate covered with paper towels to drain.

Variations:

• Powdered Sugar: dust with confectioner's sugar. Serve warm.
• Glazed: Combine 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar with 2 teaspoons hot milk and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla. Drizzle over cooled doughnuts.
• Cinnamon and Sugar: Combine 2 tablepoons ground cinnamon with 1/2 cup sugar. Serve warm.
• Jelly Doughnut Rounds: Stir 1/2 cup jelly of your choice util smoth. Transfer jelly to aplastaic baggie and snip off one corner to squeeze out jelly. Poke cooked doughnut round with end of a pointed knife and squirt in jelly.