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How To Make Funnel Cake
By Leeanne Utiger
Learn and know how to make funnel cakes, and ultimately keep the whole family happy and smiling. Funnel cakes are a well known form of cake that you will often see at fairs, amongst the cake stalls.
Funnel cakes are also often known as Dutch Treats.
However, now you do not have to wait until you go to a fair to get a taste of a delicious funnel cake, because I am going to give you details on how you can make your very own funnel cakes.
Funnel cakes are a sugar-coated pastry cake, that eveyone is capable of learing how to make, so I assure you, if you learn make funnel cakes at home, you will be well appreciated and loved. Not many people do not enjoy the tasted of a sugar coated pastry cake. Imagine the happy children you would have if you made some funnel cakes and served them up at a birthday party. These funnel cakes are sure to be a hit at any such event. To make things even better, funnel cakes are very easy to prepare and make. And remember, funnel cakes do not have to be any particular shape, the odder, the better in fact.
Once you have finished your funnel cakes , they should be light and airy and yet have a nice crisp brown texture.
Cooking funnel cakes is so much fun and takes very little time to do. Now I am going to get into how to cook funnel cakes and what ingredients you will need to be able to learn how to make your own funnel cakes.
To begin with you will need a funnel cake pitcher. (this is of course if you are learning how to make your own funnel cake mixture). You can if you so choose also purchase an already prepared pre-packaged funnel cake mixture. This you can find readily available at your local supermarket. If you can not locate the funnel mixture on the shelf, please feel free to ask the supermarket assistant for some help or directions as to where to find it.
Now back to knowing how to make your own funnel cake mixture.
Now that you have made sure you have a funnel cake pitcher ready for use, you will also need:
2 cups of milk, 2 eggs, 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, half a teaspoon of salt, and 1 tablespoon of sugar if desired. You do not have to use the sugar if you do not want to.
Now that we know what we ingredients we will have to have on hand in knowing how to make funnel cakes, we can now begin to learn the process of how to make funnel cakes.
To begin with, you will have to mix the milk and the eggs together. Then you need to sift all together the flour, the baking powder, the salt and the sugar (if you have chosen to use sugar in your funnel cake mixture). Once you have sifted all of these ingredients, you will then have to combine and mix them with the milk mix. Simply beat these together to make the mixture nice and smooth.
Your funnel cake mixture is almost ready for cooking. However before you cook the funnel cakes, you will need to heat up a pot of oil for cooking the funnel cakes in. If you think about it ahead of time, you can choose to have the oil heating on the element of the stove while you are in fact preparing the funnel cake mixture. This will ultimately save you some time while cooking funnel cakes.
Once you think the oil is heated enough to cook your funnel cakes in, you will have to make sure your funnel cake mixture is in fact of the appropriate consistency. To do this, simply by using your funnel cake pitcher, pour a little of the funnel cake mixture into the heated oil. If the mixture runs out too quickly, this means more flour is needed to be added to the funnel cake mixture. If it flows through the funnel cake pitcher too slowly, this means you will have to add a little more milk to your funnel cake mixture.
Once you have the consistency all sorted and how it should be, simply let drizzles of the funnel cake mixture run into your heated oil. You an make shapes or even spirals with the funnel cake mixture, that may otherwise be known as dough. Simply fry the funnel cakes on one side and the over and fry the other side of the funnel cakes until they are golden brown on both sides of the funnel cake. Once your funnel cakes are cooked on both sides, drain them and lift them out of the heated oil. Place them on a handy towel, or a serviette to drain any further excess oil away from them. While the funnel cakes are still warm, sprinkle and dust with castor sugar or icing sugar if you prefer.
Now basically that is all there is you need to know about how to make funnel cakes. However there are many recipes around for you to try.
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