Usually there are two kinds of people in the world: the heart attack kind – a meat-lover, eating tons of butgers, fries, pizza and doener, and the diabetes kind – a sweet-lover, feeding him- or herself chocolate, pastry and candy.
BUT
In our world of progress, you can be both. Increase the risk of a heart attack AND diabetes at the same time, have a CRONUT.
Cronuts are a hit in the USA. Something so simple yet new is kind of booming on blogs, reports and in magazines. The hype made me curious and I was very interested in trying the new sensation.

I did some research on the topic and it turned out that a “cronut” is basically just fried croissant dough which you can buy in a can at your local department store.

So I just bought two cans and tried to make them. They turned out quite cute and the taste was… well, you know the taste of a croissant. After the frying, I put some vanilla sugar glaze on top which gave them a little sweeter flavour.
Actually, I was not that impressed as I had expected a burst of flavour. But I am not in New York and have only tried my amateur version.

On my trip to Frankfurt a. M., I accidently found a bakery offering cronuts. I had one together with a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks and, well, the taste was pretty close to my own ones. At home, I had left out the filling. And the rolling in sugar. Too much diabetes. But it tasted fine. So if you are still interested in the taste of cronuts – make a bunch at home! I will give you the instructions. You decide whether you like them or not.

Cronuts:

2 cans of croissant dough
sugar icing
fat (for frying), I used sunflower oil

Release the dough from the can and roll it out. squeeze the triangular perforation with your fingers so the wholes disappear. Divide the rectangular layers. Put on one layer a thin waterfilm by using a brush. Place another on top and go on like this until you finish one can. Roll the dought thinner with a rolling pin. Brush half of the surface with water, then fold and roll again, until the layers stick together. Now cut out circles with holes using cookie cutters of different size or a donut cutter. I used a small cookie cutter with a diameter of 5 cm (2´´) and a cupcake cutter.

Heat oil in a deep dish. You know it is hot enough, if there are little air bubbles coming up when you put in a wooden skewer.

Gently put in the cut out cronuts and fry. You might have to turn them around if you don’t have a deep fryer. They need to be amber brown outsie.

Place them on paper towels to cool. I had my bf brushing a little milk with butter on top. Decorate your sweeties with icing and sprinkles.