Easy Cronuts Recipe: Soft, moist croissant style donuts topped with a sweet vanilla glaze.
To say that I am not a morning person is an understatement.
Things I do on a regular basis:
1. Hit the snooze button 7 times (maximum times allowed on my phone).
2. Stay in my jammies until noon.
3. Sleep with my head covered because the sun doesn’t understand I need darkness until mid afternoon.
4. Curse at birds who have the nerve to chirp loudly outside my window at the ungodly hour of 9 AM.
5. Beg the dog to please try to hold it just “a few more minutes”.
With the Cronut (Croissant + Donut craze) sweeping the nation, the last thing I’d ever want to do is wait in a bakery line at 6 AM. That’s why I was determined to find a copy cat cronut recipe that would allow me to enjoy these at home.
Cronuts Recipe – Semi-Homemade Heaven
This cronuts recipe takes no time at all and tastes AMAZING! I haven’t tried the “real” cronuts recipe, but these are one of the best donuts I’ve ever had!
Goes Great With
Easy Cronuts Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 package refrigerated Pillsbury Uncut Crescent Sheets
- 1 snack-size 4-ounce container of vanilla pudding
- 2 cups Powdered Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1 tbsp Milk
- Vegetable Oil for Frying
Instructions
- Fill pan with around 2 inches of oil. Heat oil to 350 degrees over medium heat.
- Fold dough in half in one direction then fold in half in the other. Cut about 3" circles from the dough using biscuit cutter of cup/glass.
- Then Cut about 1" circles from center of each 3" shape. Reserve 1" circles to cook as cronut holes.
- Gather up scraps , roll ,and cut an additional cronut.
- Fry the donuts about 90 seconds on each side until golden brown.Drain on paper towels, and allow to cool before glazing.
Glaze
- Mix powdered sugar, vanilla and 1 tablespoon of milk. Add additional milk as needed.
- Split a cooled cronut in half and fill with 2 tablespoons of pudding then replace top.
- Drizzle top with glaze and allow it to set.
Nutrition
Have you ever tried a Cronut? Would you want to? What do you think of this cronut recipe?
My teens loved these for breakfast the other day and they were so easy to make! We loved them and I’ll definitely make these again as a surprise for them! Such a sweet treat for the morning and goes so well with my coffee!
why are people posting no follow html’s inside their recipes, it makes them hard to read with that and i was trying to make these for my son here.
So sorry about that, it is fixed now! 🙂
The recipe came out gibberish when I clicked on it. It didn’t tell me how to mix it to get it to the Instruction stage.
Hi Mae!
It seems to be working okay for me, can you please try again?
Could the cronuts be done in an air fryer?
Hi Christine,
That’s a great question, I have no idea I’ve never used one! Please let us know if you try it.
I made these this morning. Very easy and delicious!!!
Yay glad you enjoyed Sharon!
I would be very careful with this post and the use of the word Cronut as its a registered trademark and you could face serious legal consequences. Your blog is very good but I wouldn’t want you to get into deep trouble.
Concerned fan
The original and still the best is from Ansel’s Bakery in NYC. Once you try those, there is no substitute!
These are a great substitute if you don’t live near NYC. 🙂
Hi! These look great! When it says uncut crescent sheets is that just a can of the crescent rolls?
Hi Gina,
Thanks so much!! Crescents may work but I used the uncut ones. Its the same dough just without the perforations for cutting.
It looks like this http://www.pillsbury.com/products/crescents/recipe-creations
Hope this helps! 🙂