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Easy, from-scratch, no yeast donut holes! These homemade donuts can be mixed up and fried in minutes! A great guide for making donuts on your own at home!
I spent six years of my life shackled to a deep fry station.

I exaggerate a bit, I wasn't exactly shackled (only by the need for a paycheck to keep my college from slamming its door in my face each semester), and it was more often the drive-thru window or the sandwich station that I found myself stuck overseeing, but in the six years that I worked for a particular red-hatted fast food company, I experienced a lot of deep frying and bathed my fair share of curly fries and chicken tenders in sizzling wells of golden-brown (more often brown-brown) oil.

And, every evening when I would punch out to go home, my clothes, hair, and skin would be saturated with the distinct scent of all things deep fried.

So I think that might be why it's taken me so long to share anything on my site that's been fried, despite the fact that deep fried desserts are truly some next-level stuff... 6 years of scrubbing oil out of your (already acne-prone) pores will do that to you (and if I never see another curly fry in my life, that's just fine by me).

But today, I'm finally breaking my no-fry streak with these incredibly easy, bite-sized, no yeast homemade donut holes, made with my versatile no yeast cinnamon roll dough and fried until golden-perfection.

Deep frying can be a little messy, but it's quick, and the results are well-worth any cleanup. These donut holes need to only fry for about 3 and a half minutes (do them in batches of about 4-5 at a time), then roll them in cinnamon/sugar (or powdered sugar - makes them taste like funnel cake or fried dough) and you're done. Coupled with the fact that the dough is also very simple to make and comes together easily, you can easily have home-fried donuts ready for eating in under 30 minutes.

I'm not sure there's anything quite as beautiful as watching homemade donuts floating in golden oil until they're cooked to perfection <3

Except maybe eating said hot homemade donuts.

To be honest, I have quite a few homemade donut hole recipes coming up (ones with surprises tucked inside), but I wanted to share this basic recipe first, as it's going to be the foundation for the future ones.

Stay tuned, and Happy Friday!

Donut Holes (Fried, No Yeast)
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Easy, from-scratch, no yeast donut holes! These homemade donuts can be mixed up and fried in minutes! A great guide for making donuts on your own at home! I spent six years of my life shackled to a deep fry station.

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The Rio's Carnival World Buffet! Golden Gate's $1.99 Shrimp Cocktails! El Cortez' $2.99 breakfast! The old $5.99 twin lobster tail deal at the Sands! The Westward Ho MEGADOG! Have you gorged yourself on enough food yet? Of course not! When Vegas does things, it does things large...

...or strange.

Take these oddities - Deep Fried Twinkies and Deep Fried Oreos served at Mermaids slot parlor on Fremont Street downtown. We've seen the signs for years... Deep Fried Twinkies! "Must be some strange Hawaiian delicacy," I thought - knowing that the downtown grind joints cater to American islanders. How exactly do you deep-fry a Twinkie? Is there an Extra-Crispy option? I guess there's only one way to find out - take your life in hand and eat one goddamnit. So with health insurance card in hand your trusty reporters/guinea pigs headed into Mermaids to take the greasy Twinkie for a test run.

Miss Monkay and I wandered through Mermaids, past the bar to the rear left-hand corner of Mermaids. In front of us stood a small kitchenette with a "B" rating. We looked around the place, marveling at the grease, flour, grime and filth caked on every wall and appliance and turned to each other and said, nearly simultaneously in amused deadpan laced with a dollop of disbelief "They got a B". Behind the counter were two crotchety ladies, one taking orders/cooking and the other putting change from customers' orders into tip jar instead of the register.

We made our way to the counter and looked at the menu: Deep Fried Twinkie 99 cents | Deep Fried Oreos 99 cents. "Which one should we get?" Miss Monkay said. "I dunno," I replied... uneasy about ordering anything from their slim in offering, but not slim in caloric value menu. After a little mulling we decided to get the Twinkie. "We'll have a deep fried Twinkie" Miss Monkay said to the counterperson. She ignored us and moseyed over to the fridge around the corner. Out she came with a Twinkie. "...And some Oreo's too" I added to no acknowledgement from the employee. I figured if we were gonna try one, we might as well try both... eh? The woman behind the counter dropped the Twinkie into a tin of something that looked like pancake batter and came back towards us at the counter to grab plastic gloves (after carrying our Twinkie around barehanded - "B") Miss Monkay re-iterated "we'd like some Oreos too, please." The woman shrugged an "I heard you the first time" shrug and grabbed some Oreos and dumped em into the batter. By this time the Twinkie had already hit the dip and was sizzling away in a deep fryer, which - by the smell of the joint - we could tell hadn't had its oil changed since the Dunes was still standing.

Eventually the Oreos hit the dip and sizzled in tandem with the Twinkie. I began to think, whose idea was it to deep fry a Twinkie? Now really... this thing seems like it's going to be truly disgusting. I'm beginning to get scared. Eventually the Twinks and Oreos were yanked from the grease, smothered in powdered sugar and chocolate sprinkles, plopped on a French fry plate you'd find at a bowling alley and slid down the metallic countertop towards us. The woman manning the register gave us the total... we paid with some singles and change from the sizeable bankroll that we had just won from the Golden Nugget accross the street. The cash register lady put the change in her tip jar, the singles in the register and pocketed a 2¢ overcharge as well - a 'before-your-eyes' microcosmic example of casino skimming in action! We looked down at our "meal" and headed over to the mini tables standing up 5 feet away.

Upon further inspection, we noticed that the Twinkie was impaled with a stick - a deep-fried shish-ka-Twinkie! All of it was piping hot too. We placed the plate on the table, and while taking photos of it, we noticed a family looking over at our deep fried whatever and asking each other questions about it. We invited them over and told them what it was and offered an Oreo to them to try. They refused, but one of the teenage males seemed interested. Miss Monkay and I dug our plastic forks into the pile of sweet grease and took a bite... she the Twinkie, and me the Oreo. The Oreo was actually mushy, and tasted like a sweet chocolately grease ball surrounded by a spongy sugary donut thing. Nothing about it tasted like an Oreo, with the slight exception of a hint of the white sugar stuffing. It took Miss Monkay two stabs with the fork to break through to the creamy filling. We immediately traded looks. It wasn't disgusting, and it wasn't like anything either of us had ever had before, and neither of them tasted like their respective ingredients. I took my fork and dug into the Twinkie... also a spongy fried dough thingy with hot sugar filling and chocolate sprinkles. Very odd. By this time the family near us was studying our concoction with great dedication. Again we offered, and nearly insisted, that they try a piece. The mother came over and grabbed an Oreo, took a small bite and gave the rest to her son who downed it and shook his head in approval. Two or three forkfuls were enough for this lifetime. We threw in the towel and tossed the rest in the trash. It took about 3 minutes before the sugar rush came on. When it did we buzzingly bolted through the casino, made a left towards the Fremont (where we won a nice bankroll at the craps table earlier that day.)

It took barely 10 steps outside of the casino before I had to run to a trash pail to puke. Ok, that didn't happen, but we both had a stomach ache for a bit. Was it worth the two bucks? For giggles yes, for shits... no. Either way, mission accomplished and you don't have to.

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