These quick and easy sopapillas are light, airy, sweet, and delicious. They make the perfect dessert, breakfast, or sweet snack.
What are sopapilla
Sopapillas are a popular latin dessert. They are similar to beignets because both are fried dough. Sopapillas are light and airy on the inside, with a slightly crisp edge.
They are commonly listed on dessert menus at Mexican restaurants. I’ve seen them served with powdered sugar or drizzled with honey or chocolate. I once had them ice cream on the side.

Quick and easy sopapillas
I love a quick and easy dessert. You can certainly find recipes to make sopapillas from scratch, but I like having a quick alternative, especially when you have a sweet craving and don’t feel like waiting for dough to rise and all that.
This recipe is simple and only requires 2 ingredients! You are welcome to fancy up your sopapillas when you serve them.
How to serve your sopapillas
- Drizzle with honey
- Toss in cinnamon and sugar (my favorite way to serve)
- Toss in powdered sugar
- Drizzle or serve caramel, Nutella, or chocolate sauce on the side for dipping
- Top with Ice cream
- Berry compote on the side

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How to make quick and easy sopapillas
Quick and Easy Sopapillas

These quick and easy sopapillas are light, airy, sweet, and delicious. They make the perfect dessert, breakfast, or sweet snack.
Ingredients
- 1 tube Flaky Biscuit dough (I used Pillsbury Grands Flaky biscuits)
- Vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- Open the tube of biscuits and pull the biscuits apart--you should have 8 biscuits
- Separate each biscuit in half---giving you 16 biscuits
- Fill a pot with 1-2 inches of vegetable oil and heat on medium high
- When oil reaches 300°F, drop one biscuit at a time in to the hot oil.
- Don’t overcrowd the pot. Do about 3 biscuits at a time.
- Cook for about 30 seconds on each side---or when dough starts to puff up and brown.
- Remove from oil and transfer to a lined paper towel.
Cinnamon Sugar mix:
Combine 2 cups white sugar, and 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon. If you are tossing in a mixture of cinnamon and powdered sugar, toss the sopapillas in the mixture when they come out of the oil, then put them on a paper towel.
Notes
Drizzle with: honey, Nutella, chocolate syrup. Or toss in powdered sugar
Lowery Darby says
This was really tasty and the kids loved it
Shanelle Fisher says
I'm glad your family enjoyed it!
Jean says
I need to try this, it looks so good and easy to make.
Kayla DiMaggio says
I love sopapillas and this recipe was no different! So delicious and I could literally eat these all the time with how quick and easy they were!
Shanelle Fisher says
Thanks so much! They go pretty quickly in my house lol.
Serena says
I love how quick these are!
Shanelle Fisher says
Glad you enjoy them!
Addie says
Such an easy and delicious recipe! Yum!
Shanelle Fisher says
Thanks you!