Oh yes, you read that right. This is one of those things that I’d never think to make myself, but it was surprisingly easy. (BTW, how was everyone’s Halloween?!) I did a car with my neighbor for Trunk or Treat at our church. While we were making the decorations, we wanted something sweet to munch on while constructing our ‘Candyland’ theme. I found this recipe for funnel cakes and made a few changes, substituting one of the cups of flour with sorghum flour and using almond milk instead of regular milk. This was my second time frying food (not a skill I plan on using often), and it turned out loads better than my attempt to fry falafels (which I’m going to try baking next time).
You need to make sure the oil is the correct temperature. (Which, I believe was my problem in the falafel incident- it wasn’t hot enough so they fell apart.) You can check it with a candy thermometer.
I used frosting bags for cake decorating to pipe the batter into the frying pan. If you have a clean funnel, you can use that (it is funnel cake after all!). If you’re in a pinch, just use a large plastic baggie.
Cut the tip off the bag— make sure you twist the top before doing this so the batter doesn’t spill out!
Gently pour the batter into the pan. I found that if I quickly did a zig zag pattern one way, then across the other way it turned out better.
This is how I zig zagged it, then I just swirled some more over it all crazy. Don’t worry, just make sure you don’t dump it all to make a solid fried pancake and you’ll be fine. The worst that could happen is that it either 1.turns into a solid chunk with no holes, or 2.turns into funnel cake nuggets just floating around not connected to each other. The first batch is usually the mess up, so you’ll get the hang of it after that. It all tastes the same anyway.
Time to sprinkle on the powdered sugar!
Ready to eat!
YUM.
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YUM! You did such a great job, Kara! I’m terrified to try frying anything!
xo Josie
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YUMMMM! love this!
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that looks delish! you make it look so easy. now i will have to try :) also loving your silver nail polish!
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That looks so delicious and pretty easy to make!
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HOME MADE FUNNEL CAKE!!! O H M Y G A W D! ! ! ! I often thought about how to go about making funnel cake and you did it! I’m going to have to try this at some point!
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this looks delicious and makes me reminisce of the good old days of county fairs and first crushes <3
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Funnel cake looks so yummy. I always wait to get mine once a year at the State fair. I am definitely trying this recipe out.
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OMG i never knew u cud make funnel cake at home :o and it looks soo easy, the first and onli time i had it was whn i was in florida 6-7yrs ago and i fell in love with it will definatly try and make this :) thanks xx
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Yum for serious!!! Funnel cakes are the best and are my favorite fair food. Delish.
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i will never have to step food into a carnival again. brilliant.
OMG…Must try this! I need your addy lady. You won one of the Starbucks gift cards in our Monday Mingle giveaway!
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mmm, can i get some of that shipped my way, por favor???
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You are amazing. I’m like in awe right now haha. I’m so greedy I texted my bf about it. :p
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