Apple Fritters
Because Fried Dough With Shredded Apples Doesn't Sound As Cool
For the last few weeks I have been promising to make apple fritters for breakfast. My youngest child is especially good at reminding me of whatever oaths I utter, and he has been like a certain Demi Lovato song, on repeat on every station! Instead of Sorry Not Sorry it's been Fritter Remember Fritter blaring throughout our home.
The last three days have been filled with birthday parties, shopping, a football party, a baby shower, and probably a bunch of other stuff that I can't recall at the moment. As I crawled my exhausted form towards my bed last night, I looked at my boy's Pacific blue eyes and said,
The hug that I received was as sweet as the powdered sugar that I use to dust my fritters with, and this morning I found myself winding my hair into its prerequisite to cooking messy bun. They are called apple fritters not apple frithairs for a reason, and I recommend that you slap any hair over a certain length into some form of bun, ponytail, or under a cap before you begin making this recipe (or any food recipe for that matter, unless you enjoy extra amino acids in your comestibles.).
Before you could say Johnny Appleseed doing the Macarena, I had all my fritter dough components amassed on my counter top.
I began by washing and peeling some apples. I am pretty sure there was a Honeycrisp, a Swiss something, a Golden Delicious, and a Winesap in the pile. Because I was feeling lazy and/or rushed, I used the food processor to grate the apples. I normally just do things by hand, but as I had to teach school, pay bills, cook dinner, and catch an unruly calf before four P.M., I figured I could speed things up a bit via kitchen appliance utilization.
I whisked my dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
Added a couple of beaten eggs courtesy of one of my lovely laying hens.
And then added the wet ingredients.
My husband has been pressing apple cider for the last few days. Most of the cider has already been consumed by everyone on my road, but the last few gallons are going to be fermented into a hard cider, and I figured he would never notice 1/3 of a cup missing from the big jug of divine apple ambrosia.
Next, using two spoons and absolutely no discernible technique, I started plopping the fritter batter into my already hot oil. Having your oil up to temp is a no brainer on this application, unless you like grease saturated fritters, not that I would ever judge you for that. To grease each own.
In a few minutes and after a couple of turns, I plopped the fritters out onto a paper towel lined pie plate. By this point the entire house smelled like apple pie, and it brought the piranhas out of their rooms and away from Youtube.
Being a cordial sort, I made them stand and stare at the fritters until I felt ready to dust them with powdered sugar. It was like a scene out of a racehorse movie, as my family lined up and were ready to bolt, fingers first into the fritter pool.
This particular recipe makes 15 to 20 fritters depending on the size, and as I type this there are only a couple left. My son flew threw school today, I'm sure that the powdered sugar rather than gratitude has everything to do with it.
In the end, I'm sure that most of you have heard the whole, "An apple a day..," saying, I'm going to mix that old axiom up a bit: "An apple fritter a day makes your taste buds shout: HOORAY!"
Hope you enjoy!
Apple Fritters
4 cups vegetable or oil of your choice that can take high heat
1/1/2 cups of all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/3 cup buttermilk (or milk)
2 eggs, beaten
1/3 cup apple cider
1/2 tsp or more of vanilla extract
2 cups of peeled and grated apples, sweeter varieties work best!
1/2 cup powdered sugar
- Heat oil to 350 degrees. If you have a deep fryer, great! If not a deep skillet or pan will do.
- Mix together flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add the eggs, buttermilk, cider, and vanilla and mix until combined, Stir in apples. Make sure everything is well combined. It is going to be a sticky, thick batter.
- Using a couple of spoons, take a spoonful of batter in one spoon and push it off into the oil with the other spoon. Don't overload your pan by overcrowding your fritters. Cook them in batches giving your fritters plenty of room. Fry them til golden brown, remove from oil and drain on paper towels. Dust the fritters with powdered sugar and serve to any lucky people that you wish to bless with apple and cinnamon deep fried joy!!
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TY for contributing to my early heart attack... Making these ASAP:)
Hmm. I am completely okay with contributing to taste budular joy, but Myocardial Infarction seems like a gift that I wouldn't want to share, lol! Hope you enjoy and your cardiovascular systems holds fast!
Thank you for sharing one of the amazing recipes. I dont like to eat apple, but I like them in cakes, pancakes or the way you made it. Have to try it out. Keep it up :)
Thank you so much! I hope you get to try the recipe out and enjoy it as much as we all did!
verry cool great job
Well thank you kindly!
Man they look good. I haven't had an apple fritter in a while. My brother did make some corn fritters a few weeks ago. They were really good too. My family's farm is a part time operation now, but my uncle still plants corn every year. Thanks for sharing.
Confession time: I've never had a corn fritter. They sound excellent! Perhaps your brother and I can execute a trade, lol!
Of course I would just make you some fritters cause I kinda like ya and stuff😊
I'm shocked you've never had a corn fritter. My brother likes to eat his with a little maple syrup, mine are eaten as is. As long as the corn is sweet they don't need any help. I hope you get a chance to try some the next time you get your hands on some fresh sweet corn.
Well, I guess I better find a corn fritter recipe for next summer's harvest then!
Guau what nice recipe for breakfast, we do not have a lot of apples here in Central America but we have another kind of fruits like a mangoes which a little acid and coyld be replace the apples.
Thanks for sharing, if i would have time in the future i will try.
Best regard @galberto
I think a mango fritter sounds like heaven! I've made peach fritters before and mango is close texturally, so I think it would work marvelously in a fritter😊
Thank you for stopping by @galberto, I hope (if you have time) your fritter experiment goes well!
I loved reading your witty commentary, thanks for sharing the step by step process and the recipe. Apple-Fritters looks delicious.
Okay, your comment seriously made my day! It was like a comment to the fourth power of awesomeness or something else of inexplicable excellence! Thank you!!!!
Reading your comment made my day too. Thanks a lot, buddy. :)
I am so greatful for your son's never ending reminders about apple fritters. A promise to a child must never be broken. A touch of sparkling cider, presto...... school is an easy task. You always make things sound so easy. Did you get the calf rustled too? Thanks as always for a fun post. 🐓🐓
The first thing that I thought when I read your reply is that I am really a bull fecal matter artist! The tasks that make up my life are anything but easy, however, I am so tickled that I make my daily tasks sound so! LOL! Awesome!
I did finally catch the unruly juvenile bovine, but it took a lasso and some poo and snow surfing. He is now haltered and submitted to being so in a most serene matter 😉
Thank you so much for your kind words, I do so love writing and entertaining people. My poor coworkers definitely get the brunt of my good days, heh! And my boy has still got a fritter glow going on, lol!
Hope you had the most magnificent evening!
Glow Smow! Send me a couple of them fritters! You do post an entertaining day with excellent highlights that most of us might find difficulty accomplishing. Bovine tasks included.
😆 Thanks, lol!
I loved it all, but especially "...and absolutely no discernible technique." and "...catch an unruly calf before four P.M." It all really had me major chuckleheaded. Great post, and even greater looking fritters. (Though your "fried dough with shredded apples" doesn't really sound all that bad either. Call me high society). Thanks for the lift and laughter, and if you're so inclined, a preemptive thanks for 27 fritters in the mail towards the West by Friday ( :
Have a most wondrous night your amazing cookmanship-er-er.
Awe, to make you chuckle is a worthy endeavor indeed!
I love that you require twenty-seven fritters, a perfectly non-prime, yet solid numerical choice of excellence.
I have had a splendid evening, and am about ready to retire to zonk land, hope your night was fritterlicious as well!
Garrsh, thanks. That is a compliment to the Nth.
Wishing it was fritterlicious, but instead commentitious. So hard to keep up, waah waah waah, plus I have a new project on here, emanating from the BW challenge. No. 4. Which doesn't help any...but it is SO much fun. That is all the hint I will provide for now. A sleuthabout for the GKattabout O :
I sure hope my doctor concurs with this. If so, I’ll give him a hug as your son did to you. 😄
If your doc concurs, I might have to give him a hug too, lol!!