food
Cockroach Donuts
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup milk
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Oil for frying
- 1 can pre-made biscuit dough
- 1 cup melted chocolate
- Caramel chews
- Black food coloring
Steps
- Add sugar, cornstarch and milk to a large saucepan over medium heat and mix until smooth. Stir constantly until it begins to thicken. Reduce heat and continue to cook for about 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and add about 1 tablespoon of milk mixture to eggs, whisking until smooth. Slowly add 2 more tablespoons and pour egg mixture back into saucepan. Return to medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring until mixture thickens, about 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla and transfer to a bowl. Place plastic wrap directly onto the custard and place in fridge to chill.
- Preheat oil in a Dutch oven to 350 degrees.
- Open biscuit dough and separate all of the biscuit rounds into 2 pieces. Cut half of the rounds in half. Add a fingertip of water to the tops of the rounds and stick on the halves. Use a knife to score a thin line at the bottom of the dough half. Use remaining dough to roll out into thin strips.
- Add dough to hot oil, working in batches until golden, and set aside on a cooling rack. Add dough strips and fry until golden and remove to cooling rack.
- Add custard to a piping bag and pipe into fried donuts. Dip the tips of the donuts into melted chocolate. Stretch caramel into thin strips and stick on the back of the donuts. Using a small paint brush, paint food coloring stripes in between caramel. Stick fried strips into donuts, making legs and antennas.