Quick and Easy Sopapillas

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

Other easy desserts

Air fried Oreos

No Churn Ice Cream

How to make quick and easy sopapillas

Yield: 16

Quick and Easy Sopapillas

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These quick and easy sopapillas are light, airy, sweet, and delicious. They make the perfect dessert, breakfast, or sweet snack.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 tube Flaky Biscuit dough (I used Pillsbury Grands Flaky biscuits)
• Vegetable oil for frying

Instructions

1. Open the tube of biscuits and pull the biscuits apart--you should have 8 biscuits
2. Separate each biscuit in half---giving you 16 biscuits
3. Fill a pot with 1-2 inches of vegetable oil and heat on medium high
4. When oil reaches 300°F, drop one biscuit at a time in to the hot oil.
5. Don’t overcrowd the pot. Do about 3 biscuits at a time.
6. Cook for about 30 seconds on each side---or when dough starts to puff up and brown.
7. 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