Week One: Recipe Six

Apple Fritter Bites

FRITTERS

2 cups All-purpose Flour

½ cups Sugar

2-¼ teaspoons Baking Powder

1-¼ teaspoon Salt

2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon

2 whole Large Eggs

¾ cups Whole Milk

2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract

2 Tablespoons Melted Butter

2 whole Granny Smith Apples, Peeled And Diced - BOUNTY (and, I used 4)

Powdered Sugar (optional, For Dusting)

Vegetable Oil for Frying

GLAZE (optional)

1-½ cup Powdered Sugar

¼ teaspoons Salt

¼ teaspoons Vanilla

¼ cups Milk

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.

Dusted in Powdered Sugar

Dipped in Glaze

I can't even describe how delicious these were. I can't even decide which way I liked them better (glaze or sugar). SUCH a great recipe! These will be a great treat for Christmas Day. YOU HAVE TO TRY THEM!!

Bounty Hunter