Apple Fritters

By baker2lm

Ingredients

• # FRITTERS
• # 2 cups All-purpose Flour
• # 1/2 cups Sugar
• # 3 Tablespoons Sugar
• # 2-1/4 teaspoons Baking Powder
• # 1-1/4 teaspoon Salt
• # 2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
• # 2 whole Large Eggs
• # 3/4 cups Whole Milk
• # 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• # 2 Tablespoons Melted Butter
• # 2 whole Granny Smith Apples, Peeled And Diced
• # Powdered Sugar (optional, For Dusting)
• # GLAZE (optional)
• # 1-1/2 cup Powdered Sugar
• # 1/4 teaspoons Salt
• # 1/4 teaspoons Vanilla
• # 1/4 cups Milk

Preparation

Step 1

In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.

In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with a fork, then add milk, melted butter, and vanilla.

Gently fold dry and wet ingredients together until just combined (do not overmix.) Fold in apples. Add enough apples to make a very chunky batter. You want the apples to shine though!

Heat a couple of inches of canola oil over medium to medium-low heat. When it gets hot, drop a little drop of batter into the oil. If it sizzles immediately and rises to the top, the oil is ready; if it burns quickly, turn down the heat.

Drop teaspoons of batter into the hot oil, six or eight at a time. Sometimes they’ll flip over by themselves; sometimes you have to flip them. Just watch them and make sure they don’t get too brown, but cook them long enough to make sure the batter’s cooked through, about 2 to 2 1/2 minutes total.

Remove and drain on a paper towel. Dust very generously with powdered sugar, or dip fritters in a light doughnut glaze (mix all glaze ingredients together, then dunk warm fritters).

Serve warm!

**May be heated up the next day in a 350 degree oven for 8 minutes.