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State Fair Funnel Cake Recipe - Fun Saving Money. Fair Funnel Cake Recipe. Summa Summa Summa Tiiiiiime, Summa Time!!! Summer is almost here divas!! Yes lawd!!! I am not really a fan of summer because I don’t do heat very well, but I do love the fact that every summer I can count on hitting up some awesome street festivals and fairs for some scrumptious hot funnel cakes!!! Mmmm…slightly crunchy on the outside and fluffy and chewy on the inside…golden and simply delish!! I’m a plain girl when it comes to my funnel cakes. Please read the helpful tips below before making these! Fair Funnel Cake Recipe 1 egg ¼ t. vanilla 1 cup milk ⅛ cup brown sugar, packed 1 cup flour ¾ t. baking powder Pinch of salt 2 cups butter flavored Crisco Powdered sugar (optional garnish) In a small bowl, mix together: egg, vanilla, milk, & brown sugar Mix well and set aside.

*Tips on how to make the best funnel cakes* Funnel: Use a funnel with at least a dime size opening or larger. Step 1.) 1 egg 1/4 t. vanilla 1 cup of milk 1/8 c. brown sugar, packed Step 2.) Step 3.) 1 cup of flour Step 4.) How To Make Funnel Cakes At Home Street Fair Food Week. Previous image Next image If we had to name the ultimate Fair Food, hands down it would have to be funnel cakes. The sweet smell of fluffy, frying bread in combination with powdered sugar is enough to make even the strongest go weak in the knees. Well, lucky for you, they aren't difficult to make and are perfect for a party or just a weeknight snack.Not wanting to disappoint anyone's favorite childhood (or adult!)

Memories, we really wanted to bring you a recipe that the home cook could whip out of their arsenal any time they wanted a little fun in their kitchen. The ingredients are minimal and are all pantry staples, so making funnel cakes is highly affordable and relatively painless, even though it involves frying. But, as we quickly learned, there are two schools of thought when it comes to making funnel cakes. The different schools of thought deal with egg content and the application of heat to the batter. So we made our own and combined the best of all different methods. Funnel Cakes. Make Funnel Cake at Home. I go to fairs and festivals sometimes just for the funnel cake, but you can make funnel cake at home and get the same delicious fried fat fun–without standing in line in the heat.

Every once in a while when I mention my funnel cake love, someone will ask what it is, reminding me that not everyone has been to heaven and back with a vat of oil. (Some people are so deprived!) Funnel cake originated as a regional specialty of the Pennsylvania Dutch, but you can find it all across the country at fairs, festivals, etc. It’s basically a sweet batter poured through a funnel in a circular pattern, fried in oil, then covered up with more sugar. Printer-FriendlyHow to make Funnel Cake: 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 2 eggs 1 1/2 cups milk Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and cinnamon in a medium-size bowl. Add eggs and milk to the flour mixture.

Fry approximately three minutes on the first side. Life is good. Mini Funnel Cakes.. A few weeks ago, I shared with you one of my favorite treats from the State Fair of Texas, Deep Fried Cookie Dough, well here is another of my favorite fair foods… As you can probably guess from the title and the picture it is funnel cake! Only this funnel cake is in a much friendlier portion size. Typically State Fair funnel cakes look like this..

The cake is the size of the plate and you feel sick if you eat one by yourself (not that I would know from experience or anything) I decided that I wanted to make funnel cakes that were a more manageable size. Traditional funnel cakes are made by filling a funnel with batter and then moving that funnel over hot oil in circular criss crossing motions to make the iconic funnel cake shape. As you can see, the principle is still the same, only with using a smaller bottle you have more control over your cake’s shape. There is no right or wrong way to make the design. Mini Funnel Cakes Dry ingredients 1 1/2 cups AP Flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt. Easy Funnel Cakes. [ Close Privacy Policy ] Privacy Policy / Your California Privacy Rights Revised and posted as of March 4, 2013 Prime Publishing, LLC and Ginsburg Enterprises Incorporated ("Company," "we" or "us") reserves the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time simply by posting such revision, so we encourage you to review it periodically.

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HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION AND WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? Offer Forms We also collect information about you when you complete a survey or offer form on one of our websites or web pages. Funnel Cake Recipe : Alton Brown. Prev Recipe Next Recipe Loading Video... First Up 03:11 First Up Alton's Funnel Cake Recipe 03:11 In French it's pate a choux, but to most of us it's plain old funnel cake. Now Playing 01:34 Now Playing How to Deep Fry 01:34 Get our tips for perfect frying at home. Now Playing 01:08 How to Measure Dry Ingredients 01:08 Exact measurement for dry ingredients is key for baking. Now Playing 00:47 How to Measure Wet Ingredients 00:47 Here's how to measure liquids for accurate results every time. Now Playing 00:56 How to Separate Eggs 00:56 Get perfect whites and pristine yolks every time with our tips. Funnel Cake Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown Show: Good Eats Episode: Choux Shine Funnel Cake 104 Reviews Save Recipe Level: Easy Total: 20 min Prep: 10 min Cook: 10 min Yield: 10 cakes Share This Recipe View Shopping List Watch how to make this recipe.

Boil water, butter, sugar, and salt together in a saucepan. Add a Note Categories: More from: 4th of July Healthy Highly Rated 5 Ingredients or Less Surprise Me. Funnel Cakes Recipe : Emeril Lagasse. Funnel Cakes Recipe : Paula Deen. Funnel Cake with Powdered Sugar Recipe : Robert Irvine. Neopolitan Ice-cream Cake Recipe. Easy Ice-cream Pie Recipe | Kids' Recipes. There are lots of reasons why parents should cook with kids.

First of all, it's fun! If you can get over the fact that half the flour in the cookie recipe will end up on the floor, cooking with kids is often as enjoyable for parents as it is for kids. It's also educational. Getting children involved in preparing food teaches them math skills, reading skills, safety, and creativity, in addition to helping them learn responsibility and awareness about the natural world. Plus, if you want your kids to know how to prepare dinner for the whole family when they're teenagers, cooking with them while they're little will have such later paybacks. To start cooking with a child of any age, a trip to the bookstore or library is a good idea.

You can get your younger child involved with what you're cooking at dinnertime by giving him simple tasks that he can accomplish, like the following. Older children can help choose recipes and follow them (with some supervision), and set the table. Ice-cream Cake Recipe. Cookie Dough Brownies. I’m pretty sure that my main reason for baking so much is the raw cookie dough/brownie batter/pie crust. Why does food taste so much more decadent and yummy before you put it in the oven and kill all of the salmonella? Weird, man. I’m actually not a fan of salmonella, like, at all. So, I topped these ooey gooey brownies with some eggless cookie dough. Then I burst. You know, from all of the cookie dough brownies that I shoveled in my mouth.

These are rich, but not as rich as I expected. Print Save Ingredients: 1 recipe or box of brownie mix, prepared and baked 3/4 cup salted butter, room temperature 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed 1/2 cup granulated white sugar 3 Tablespoons milk 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips Directions: In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy.

Adapted from Recipe Girl Don’t miss a post! S'more Cookie Bars. These were a huge hit! Keith, Andrew, and Kramer all ate at least two of these the other night. I brought some into work, too, and they quickly disappeared. They seriously tasted just like a s’more, and they should, considering that all of the same ingredients are used, just kicked up a notch! The crust is a graham cracker cookie, topped with marshmallow, a layer of chocolate, and a graham cracker crust to top it all off. These bars are sure to wow everyone that tries them! They couldn’t be easier to make, either. What you’ll need. Pulse about 8 graham crackers in a blender or food processor to get your graham cracker crumbs.

Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and graham cracker crumbs. Cream together the butter and sugars, until light and fluffy (at least 3-5 minutes), then beat in the egg and vanilla. Gradually mix the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Press half of the dough down into the greased and/or lined 8×8 pan (I doubled it and did a 9×13). Enjoy! S’more Cookie Bars. S’more pie. A year ago, I made s’mores from scratch and brought them to the Memorial Day barbecue on my friend Jocelyn’s roof, celebrating the thousands of other hottie uniformed types that had sailed in for Fleet Week.

[I just spelled that "Weak. " It's all so telling, innit?] We assembled them from Nancy Silverton’s graham crackers from the La Brea Bakery cookbook, as featured on 101 Cookbooks, [which were, incidentally the most accurately-flavored homemade graham crackers I've baked, much closer that the ones I'd attempted a couple years ago from Retro Desserts] and Thomas Keller’s marshmallows, as featured on Cooking for Engineers, and packed them up with skewers for toasting and giant bars of Hershey’s milk chocolate (exactly what we used in summer camp).

Second only to the men in uniform, they were the hit of the party. And then I never told you about them, because I forgot to take pictures of the finished product. Really! I was dead wrong on each concern. One year ago: Zucchini Carpaccio Salad. Big Girl Smore’s Pie. This S’mores Pie will be the hit of your next BBQ! I hope you don’t mind if I share this deliciousness with you.

This is big girl pie. Big Girl S’mores Pie. This is the kind of pie that will bring you to tears. Yes, you’ll cry for pie. You’ll cry because of its utter and ridiculous deliciousness. Cry because you have lost all self control and are standing over an entire pie with a spoon and smeared chocolate on your cheek.

Cry because you can see your swim suit dream disappearing bite by euphoric bite. Cry because you can’t believe you have lived this long without it in your life. Cry because you have now devoured most of the pie without taking a photo…oh, wait..ummm…maybe that’s just me. Believe in the power of marshmallow and chocolate. S’mores Pie. First make your crust… Evenly spread the Marshmallow Creme over the bottom crust. Now spread the broken chocolate pieces on top of the Marshmallow Creme.

Now, form the remaining dough into a ball and place on a piece of wax paper. Then bake and dig in! S'mores Cookies. Yesterday was busy with swimming, BBQing, and relaxing. My Laundry Monday turned into Laundry Tuesday topped with an additional load of damp swimming towels. Being the good parents we are we counted swimming as baths for the kids and sent them to bed smelling of sunblock.

Then as I snuggled on the couch to write a post about these cookies I brought to our BBQ I just…could not…keep…my eyes…open. *Snooze* These S’mores Cookies are a perfect hello to summer. These cookies have a graham cracker base with a chocolate chip cookie sprinkled with chocolate and marshmallows topping it. Ingredients 11 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar, packed ½ cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon sea salt (optional) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 ½ cups flour 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 cup mini marshmallows 3 regular sized Hershey’s bars, broken into pieces 1-2 packages graham crackers, broken into squares Instructions Notes. Warm Toasted Marshmallow S'more Bars. Red Velvet Cupcakes - Delish.com. Cream Filled Chocolate Cupcakes.

Also known as Hostess Cupcakes! Hostess cupcakes iced with Hot Chocolate Butter. Oh. My.Yum. Yo Ho Ho Hostess Cupcakes Along with yesterday’s Cookie Dough Dip, I brought these cupcakes to Sunday’s pirate party. Unlike Hostess’ cupcakes, mine are: whole-grainlow in fat and caloriesfree of high fructose corn syrup and trans fats But seriously, people will eat them up!! Little Devil Cupcakes Inspired by this recipe. 1 cup flour (I used white-whole-wheat. Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Frost cupcakes with warmed Hot Chocolate Butter. Then put the cakes in the fridge for the frosting to harden. Sugar Note: I put in 3/4 cup sugar, because these cupcakes were being served to people who are used to standard cupcakes. An alternative to the creme: Try stuffing them with Healthy Cookie Dough Dip.

Or, you could imitate some of the people at the party and dunk these cupcakes into the cookie dough dip. RECIPE OVERVIEW. Mini OREO Surprise Cupcakes Prep time: 10 min Total time: 52 min Makes: 24 servings What You Need 1 pkg. (2-layer size) chocolate cake mix1 pkg. (8 oz.) Make It Heat oven to 350°F. Nutritional information per serving Calories 220 , Total fat 14g , Saturated fat 5g , Cholesterol 50mg , Sodium 260mg , Carbohydrate 23g , Dietary fiber 1g , Sugars 14g , Protein 3g , Vitamin A 4%DV , Vitamin C 0%DV , Calcium 4%DV , Iron 8%DV . Martha Stewart Chocolate Desserts - Rich Chocolate Dessert Recipes. No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake - Easy Cheesecake Recipe. In Katrina's Kitchen: Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake. Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Did you know that yesterday was National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day? I need to get myself a calendar and start marking these things down for next year.

It just so happens that I had made these little cheesecakes a while ago and never did a post about them because my husband didn’t love them (more about that later). However I thought these would be perfect to share with you this Monday morning. The recipes are simple and the method is easy. Sometimes you have to agree to disagree, right? I originally made this for my teenage brother.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Recipe Print Save The classic no-bake cheesecake gets a makeover with a chocolate chip cookie crust Ingredients: Chocolate chip cookie dough, purchased or prepared2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened1/4 cup sugar1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract1 8oz tub Cool Whip or about 3/4 of a 12oz tub 1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional, to taste) Directions: Notes:

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