Hi Bold Bakers!
One of the best things about summertime is
going to the fair and trying fair food.
Fair food is pretty much everything and anything
fried.
Now a really good example of this is funnel
cake.
This delicacy is fried batter with a strawberry
sauce on top and whipped cream and let me
tell you, you have not lived until you have
tried this.
The recipe is on my website, BiggerBolderBaking.com
along with all of my other fun summer recipes.
Okay, we are gonna start out in a nice large
bowl.
So we are gonna sift together some flour,
baking powder, and salt.
So the reason that we’re sifting it is just
to get out any lumps.
Okay so those are our dry ingredients, now
into here I am going to add in some eggs,
and milk.
And then with a whisk, you do this all by
hand, super easy, just whisk it together until
you form a batter.
So now if you don't eat eggs you can replace
each egg with four tablespoons of milk, and
that will work well too.
Okay so this is our batter, looking great,
now I'm gonna pop this into the fridge, let
it just rest up for around 30 minutes and
we're gonna make our strawberry sauce.
Into a heavy-bottomed saucepan we are going
to add some quartered strawberries, a little
bit of sugar, and some water.
Now you just wanna turn this to a medium low
heat, and just let this mix come to a simmer
just for a few minutes.
So our strawberries have been simmering for
around 4-5 minutes, they're nice and soft,
so at this point I'm going to add in our corn
starch that is mixed with a little bit of
water, and when you add that in, you want
to just give it a stir around to make sure
that it just mixes with everything else and
there's no lumps.
Lovely, you can see it already start to thicken
the sauce.
And then I'm gonna add a little bit of vanilla
extract.
So we’re gonna let this simmer for another
minute or so just to let the cornstarch activate,
and then we’re gonna turn off the heat and
set it aside.
So while my strawberry sauce is cooling down,
I have saucepan over here, with around 1.5
inches to 2 inches of oil, now you can use
any kind of flavorless oil, canola, vegetable,
I just don't recommend olive oil or coconut
oil.
So I have this on a medium to low heat and
I'm just gonna let that heat up.
So here I have a piping bag to pipe my batter
into my frying pan.
You can also use a Ziploc bag or obviously
you can use a funnel to get that lovely fun
shape.
So what I'm going to do is just fill this
up with my batter, then cut a small hole in
the bottom, into our oil that's nice and medium
heat, pretty much just start to write like
you're doing a pen, just squiggle all the
way around, you can get creative, go back
and forth, no matter what you do here, this
funnel cake is gonna look great.
Perfect, so you want around half a cup of
batter per funnel cake, lovely.
And then we’re just gonna let that simmer
for around three minutes on each side, until
it’s golden brown.
You'll see it start to turn brown pretty quickly.
Without a doubt this is summer recipe, I remember
the first fair that I went to, in California,
it was actually the Marin county fair that
I went to with Kevin.
So much fun, great food, rides, there were
animals, there was a cow trying to lick Kevin,
it was really so much fun.
If you have a fair near you, I strongly suggest
that you go.
So it’s been three minutes, I can see that
my funnel cake is nice and brown, carefully
turn it over, and cook it for another three
minutes on the other side.
So there you have a beautiful funnel cake,
almost ready to be eaten, I'm just gonna cook
off the rest of the batter first.
This is a really easy and fun recipe to make
at home and honestly you only need around
two inches of oil.
You don't need to fill up a pot with oil.
Just a little bit and it will fry them just
fine.
Once they are all fried off they are ready
to be decorated.
So here in have mine on a plate and I'm gonna
dust it very generously with some icing sugar.
Then I'm gonna add some of our cooled down
strawberry sauce.
Look at that.
It’s a lovely color as well.
And then to top it all off, we’ve got a
little bit of whipped cream right here.
Fantastic, look at that.
Without a doubt, a feast for the eyes and
for the tummy.
Once of the benefits to this recipe, from
start to finish it is really fast.
So in no time at all you're gonna be enjoying
homemade funnel cake.
[Laughs] Oh, man.
Seriously, what could be bad about fried batter,
cream, strawberries, sugar, I'm telling you,
you haven't lived until you've tried this.
I hope you enjoyed this episode and make sure
you check out BiggerBolderBaking.com because
I have got tons of recipes up there perfect
for summertime.
I’ll see you back here really soon for more
Bigger Bolder Baking.
