Cinnamon Sugar Air Fryer Donuts (4-ingredients)
Air Fryer Donuts that are made from refrigerated biscuits! Just 4-ingredients and 5 minutes to make. These delicious donuts will be your new favorite Air Fryer recipe!
One of our most popular recipes is our Easy Canned Biscuit Donuts which are baked in the oven. Everyone just loves them and it’s just as easy. This is just a different version that takes less cooking time. However, if you don’t have an Air Fryer, I would definitely suggest that you try our baked version.
Easy Air Fryer Donuts
If you do not currently own an air fryer, let this be the recipe that convinces you to buy one. The air fryer uses convection to circulate hot air around whatever you put inside so your favorite fried food recipes can now be made without the Frying and less guilt! We LOVE ours and have made so many awesome recipes like our popular Air Fryer Apple Fries and Air Fryer Jalepeno Bacon Cheese Balls.
You will also want to check out our Air Fryer Tips post that has everything you need including all sorts of tips, tricks and a free cooking times printable!
Ingredients You Will Need:
- Flaky Jumbo Biscuit Dough (such as Pillsbury Grands)
- Ground Cinnamon
- Granulated Sugar
- Melted Butter
- Coconut Oil Cooking Spray
How To Make Donuts In An Air Fryer
- Preheat air fryer to 360 degrees. To do this, simply turn your air fryer on at 330 degrees and let it run for about 3-5 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the cinnamon and sugar. Set aside.
- Open the can of flaky biscuits and cut the center out of each one using a 1-inch round cutter. Lightly coat air fryer basket with coconut oil spray (you can also use olive oil spray). Do not use non-stick spray like Pam (those sprays could be harmful to your air fryer).
- Place the donuts (not holes), in your air fryer. Bake for 5 minutes at 360 degrees. As the doughnuts are cooking, melt the butter.
- Using a silicone pastry brush, coat the baked doughnuts with your melted butter. Then cover the donuts with the cinnamon sugar mixture by dipping and rolling around. Use a spoon to coat the top as well. Gently shake off excess cinnamon sugar. Serve doughnuts hot.
Air Fryer Donut Holes
When you air fry the “holes”, set your timer for 3 minutes and repeat the process of dipping in butter and then adding the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
Supplies Needed To Make Air Fryer Donuts
- Air Fryer (of course)
- 1-inch round cutter
Optional Topping
If you are a bigger fan of chocolate glaze instead of the cinnamon sugar coating, we got you covered!
Chocolate Glaze
Once cooked, dip the donuts in chocolate glaze.
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon light corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Melt the ingredients in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring. Dip the donuts in the chocolate glaze or spread the glaze on top of the donuts using a knife.
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Easy Air Fryer Donuts
Ingredients
- 1 can Jumbo Flaky Biscuits like Pillsbury Grands
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- 5 Tbsp butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat air fryer to 360 degrees. To do this, simply turn your air fryer on at 330 degrees and let it run for about 3-5 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the cinnamon and sugar. Set aside.
- Open the can of flaky biscuits and cut the center out of each one using a 1-inch round cutter. Lightly coat air fryer basket with coconut oil spray (you can also use olive oil spray). Do not use non-stick spray like Pam (those sprays could be harmful to your air fryer).
- Place the donuts (not holes), in your air fryer. Bake for 5 minutes at 360 degrees. As the doughnuts are cooking, melt the butter.
- Using a silicone pastry brush, coat the baked doughnuts with your melted butter. Then cover the donuts with the cinnamon sugar mixture by dipping and rolling around. Use a spoon to coat the top as well. Gently shake off excess cinnamon sugar. Serve doughnuts hot.
Donut Holes
- When you air fry the “holes”, set your timer for 3 minutes and repeat the process of dipping in butter and then adding the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
Nutrition
Loved this!
Do you know how many “points” for Weight Watchers these would be?
50. Million. Points.
I just tried to track it just now. It said 5 pts.although not sure what 113kcals means.
Going to try these todsy
So easy and delicious! New fan favorite in our home!
This seems so easy and doable! I’m excited to try it.
My kids are going to LOVE making these. Thanks!
Awesome recipe! So easy & taste just like my mom’s growing up…but of course she fried them!
For holiday fun, I used little holiday cookie cutters. So the donuts have gingerbread man, trees and snowflakes.
Great idea!
I,m in Australia do not sure of your biscuit item
Our biscuits (at least the ones in this recipe) come from an air packed can. They are used usually at breakfast to put jam on or stuff with breakfast meats like bacon or sausage. The closest thing y’all may have is a scone. If y’all have a buttermilk scone then even better. I hope that helps.
These donuts were great and so easy to do! I bought a small can of biscuits since it is just two of us. I dipped the donuts in the melted butter instead of brushing them and then used two bowls to pour the cinnamon and sugar over the donuts. By pouring the cinnamon and sugar back and forth between bowls I was able to get the donuts with a better covering. Next time I am going to try shaking the donuts in a paper bag with the cinnamon and sugar instead of dipping them and rolling them in the mixture. Would be a great recipe for kids or grandkids to make with you!
We made these with the Sweet Hawaiian Flaky Biscuits (we bought them by accident). They were wonderful. We will be making them again!
Easy To make. Very good
Am I able to use the original or buttermilk biscuits as well. I don’t have the flaky on hand.
We prefer flaky, but original is fine!
Serve still warm before the texture goes back to being a cold biscuit. My family has been deep-frying canned biscuits to make donuts since about 1961. We found the cheapest products of canned biscuits seem to work the best. I’m about to test some cheap ones. I’ll use a glazed approach.
Just made air fryer doughnuts really turned out great