Scone-nuts

Here is yet another use of the wonderful Pizza Crust recipe (see post below)!  It is for making donuts.  These donuts are across between donuts and scones, and taste absolutely wonderful!  Here we go...

Make dough from Pizza Crust recipe.  Let dough rise 30 minutes.  Punch down and let rise again for another 30 minutes. 

Then heat your oil.  I don't have a deep fryer, so I just use a pan w/ about 2 inches of oil in it with the burner on at about medium to medium high.  Let the oil get nice and hot.  While that's heating, you can either roll out the dough and use a cookie or donut cutter, or you can do them free-form like I did.  I broke off a small piece of dough (about the size of a walnut) and flattened it out in my hand, poking a hole in the middle. 

As soon as your oil is ready, start dropping your donuts in.  Fry until light golden brown (the dough cooks rather quickly) - about a minute and a half on each side. 

Place donuts on paper towel to cool. 

Once cooled a bit, you can top them with powdered sugar, granulated sugar and cinnamon, glaze or frosting, or you can treat them like scones and use honey butter.

The number of donuts this makes depends on the size of your donuts, but expect at least 2 dozen small donuts.

Enjoy!!