This is one of my family’s favorite treats, and a small warning, it isn’t healthy, not one little but. They are delicious though, and well worth a try. So let’s make some Sugar Dumplings.

You will need:

• Vegetable Oil
• Ready-made Biscuit Dough
• Sugar
• 2 large bowls, deep sauce pan, paper towel lined plate, slotted spoon with a long handle

Start off by heating the vegetable oil in your sauce pan. You want the oil up to 350-375 F so the dumplings fry to a golden brown.

Open up the biscuits, and separate them.

Then tear the biscuits into quarters.  For this batch I’m using flaky biscuit dough (it was the last one left) but any biscuit dough will work. Since they are flaky, I kneaded the dough a bit to break down the layers, and then I rolled each of the biscuit quarters into balls.

Roll away, this will keep you busy while the oil is heating up.

Get your bowls ready. I have one filled with one cup of Sugar to roll the hot dumplings in. The smaller bowl is going on the table once all of the dumplings are finished.

When your oil has reached the perfect temp, it’s time to fry the dumplings. I like to fry mine in small batches of 4-5. Stay right there with them, they brown up fast.

If they stick to the bottom of the pan a bit, you can loosen them with your slotted spoon. Make sure they are golden brown everywhere, and remove them from the oil.

Transfer them to your paper towel lined plate, and lightly toss them around to remove any extra oil.

Then pop them into your sugar bowl, and coat them well. This is where you can get creative with your Sugar… My family likes them just plain with sugar only, but you could always add orange or lemon zest to your sugar and give them a bright citrus flavor. Also cinnamon and sugar would be delicious, or even dust them with powdered sugar and drizzle them with chocolate syrup. Any way you make them, they are tasty. Once you’ve got them sugar coated, transfer them to your serving dish, and dessert is ready.

Hope you enjoy this super sweet treat!