Quickest apple fritters with salted caramel & cold custard
Prep
10 mins
Cook
5 mins
Servings
4
Difficulty
Easy
When I'm craving something warm and indulgent but don't have much time, these quickest apple fritters are my go to solution. Ready in just fifteen minutes from start to finish, they're honestly easier than ordering takeout. The beauty is in their simplicity: crispy golden fritters studded with sweet apple pieces, then dusted with cinnamon sugar and served alongside silky cold custard and rich salted caramel. Apples are naturally packed with fiber, which is a wonderful bonus to this little treat. Best of all, you probably have most of these ingredients in your kitchen already, making this a genuinely budget friendly dessert that tastes far more impressive than the minimal effort required.
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Ingredients
- 100 gramspancake batter(pancake mix)
- 35 gramscaster sugar
- ½ tspvanilla extract
- ¼ tspfine sea salt
- 1apple(finely diced)
- 1essential vegetable oil(vegetable oil for frying (about 200g))
- 50 gramscaster sugar
- 1 tspground cinnamon
- 1no.1 madagascan vanilla custard(No.1 Madagascan Vanilla Fresh Custard, optional)
- 1no.1 salted caramel sauce(No.1 Salted Caramel Dessert Sauce, optional)
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Instructions
- 1
First, make the fritters. Mix pancake mix with 70ml water, sugar, vanilla and salt until lump-free. Stir in the diced apple. Heat a frying pan on medium heat with a generous glug of oil (enough so you can baste). Once hot (around 180°C is ideal), spoon large dollops into the hot oil, baste, then flip after around 1 minute 30 seconds to 2 minutes (so they’re looking golden and puffed). Cook for another 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds on the other side, basting with oil to ensure an even cook. Transfer to a plate lined with kitchen paper to absorb excess oil.
- 2
Combine sugar and cinnamon in a bowl large enough to hold the cooked fritters. When cool enough to handle but still warm, dust the fritters in cinnamon sugar and serve with cold custard and warmed caramel sauce for dipping on the side.
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