Easy Food Recipes and Cooking - Vanilla Apple Puffs
Makes about 2 dozen Puffs
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup whole milk
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla paste
1 1/2 cups diced Fuji apples oil, for deep-frying
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder vanilla sugar, for dredging (recipe below)
How to Make:
- In a large saucepan, heat butter, water, milk, sugar and salt until boiling and butter has melted. Add flour all at once and quickly stir with a wooden spoon until batter leaves the sides of the pan. Remove from heat.
- Add eggs one at a time, stirring well after each addition. Stir in vanilla paste and apples.
- Heat oil in a medium saucepan. When oil is hot, drop rounded teaspoonfuls of batter a few pieces at a time, and cook until the balls float and turn golden brown, flipping over to brown the balls evenly. Remove from pan.
- Blend cinnamon with vanilla sugar (recipe below) and place in a large bowl. Dredge apple puffs in the sugar blend until well coated. Serve hot.
Vanilla Sugar:
3 cups white sugar
1 vanilla bean pod
- Place sugar in a jar. Split a vanilla bean and scrape seeds into the sugar. Race vanilla pod in the sugar, covering it well.
- Screw cap tightly and let sit for a week until sugar absorbs the full flavor of the vanilla bean.