Simple Peanut Butter and Jelly Donuts Recipe

Our simple peanut butter and jelly donuts recipe with crescent rolls is an easy fried breakfast or dessert! Classic flavors wrapped in refrigerated dough sprinkled with sugar for oh so goodness! Like the filling in our peanut butter and jelly cheesecake bars but more acceptable to be eaten in the morning than those. 😉

OH MY goodness you must try these crescent roll donuts! A yummy breakfast or dessert with two of your favorite flavors and sprinkled with sugar. These fry doughnuts are easy to make and it will be hard to stop at just one! (affiliate links present)

Fried Peanut Butter and Jelly Doughnuts

The outside uses refrigerated crescent rolls which you can find just about anywhere. The filling I’m sure you have in your house already. You could either fry them in oil or make air fryer donuts too.

Once you get the hang of how these are made you can go further thereafter. Think of all the other things you could stuff inside. You could add any fruit flavor of pie filling in there, nutella with bananas, baked apples, all the things……

This is the EASY way. Waiting for everything to double in size and using yeast is just a little too labor intensive for me. I will say that I’ll go through the extra effort if I taste a BIG difference but I can’t say that I would with these. Just pop open the tube, roll it out and it’s prepped. The filling listed below is enough to fill 8 of them. If you want more then just adjust accordingly.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Donuts with Crescent Rolls

First let’s get out a cutting board so you can get it all prepared. Then I like to set them on a baking sheet lined with paper towels once they’ve taken a trip inside the oil. It allows some of the oil to be soaked up which is nice.  Since we’re using ready made refrigerated crescent rolls sheets there is NO need for a mixer or dough hook.

You will just have to do the frying at the end. Here’s what they look like once you’re preparing them. Just do it assembly line style!

Yes of course you could make your own homemade dough, we are a quick let’s make it fast kinda’ family. Especially if we have a full day ahead of us we want to enjoy the goodness but not take all day. Alternatively you could defrost Rhodes frozen dough and roll those out too.

How to Make Peanut Butter Donuts No Yeast

1. Mix together your peanut butter, cream cheese and sugar in a small bowl
2. Unroll your crescent roll sheet on to your cutting board & pinch perforations together so it doesn’t leak
   1. Then cut into 8 equal squares
3. Spoon your peanut butter mixture into the middle of each one
4. Add a bit of jelly on top
5. Roll each one up
6. Pinch ends so they are completely closed on both sides

You don’t want all the insides to leak out of course so make sure you have a good seal all the way around. Once you get this down you can fill with all sorts of other things too like pie filling or bananas and nutella!

How long to fry donuts in a pan

We are going to go with lightly browned biscuit donuts here because that would be the most popular way of cooking them. Recently we have air fried these until the dough was puffy and baked all the way thru and those were great too but frying will get them crispier! You will need about 2-3 minutes to cook the dough all the way thru to a golden brown.

How to fry donuts with Crescent Rolls

1. Wait until you have hot oil on the stovetop, this is between 350-375F.
   1. using a thermometer adjust the heat so it reaches a steady 360 degrees F for a few minutes before adding
   2. if you don’t have a thermometer test by dropping a tiny bit of dough into it and if it sizzles right away it’s ready
2. Lower filled dough into oil
3. Fry for 1-1.5 on each side until golden brown
4. Lift out and cool slightly on a few paper towels
5. Roll in sugar or dust with powdered sugar
   1. could fill a pastry bag with frosting and drizzle across too

You can also add a “fancy” aspect to it where you melt chocolate is in the microwave and drizzle over the top. It is best to lay a few paper towels down first so when your doughnuts are fried you can lay them on top. This will allow the excess oil to be absorbed by the towels.

Crescent Roll Donuts Ingredients

1. Peanut butter – creamy is best
2. Jelly of any kind works like strawberry or grape
3. Cream cheese will create a creamy filling with the other two items
4. Sugar and/or confectioners sugar for the outside is a nice touch
5. Refrigerated crescent rolls – refrigerated dough there is no need to wait to rise in a warm area which really cuts down the cooking time overall.
6. Oil for frying, vegetable or canola is best
7. Paper towels are necessary to absorb the oil

From there you can really coat them with whatever you want but white sugar is easiest. You could even melt some chocolate chips like we did with our pressure cooker donuts or air fryer apple fritters and spoon some on the top instead.

Now you could use any sort of nut butter you preferred. Almond or sunflower work just as well as well as nut free butters for those with allergies. As long as the texture is thick you’re good to go. Made as fried donut holes no yeast you could fill with this same filling using a pastry bag and tip.

After you make these, here are a few other quick and easy dessert recipes to try:

• We love making cake mix donuts because you only need a few simple ingredients
  • or make powdered sugar donut holes at home if you want to go all out for the holidays
• Baked cake mix pumpkin donuts during the Fall and bring on the flavors!

We hope you enjoyed these fried peanut butter and jelly donuts too. I am going to try these as air fryer donuts soon and will share the results after I do so. I am totally obsessed with that new kitchen appliance now.