Amount of time the recipe takes:
About 35 mins
Ingredients/what you need:
- 13g granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 56g butter, (no salt) make sure they are in tiny pieces
- 141g flour
- Some vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 250ml of water
Ingredients for coating:
- ¾ teaspoon of cinnamon (ground)
- 100g granulated sugar
Baking instructions:
- For the coating, mix ½ cup sugar and cinnamon in a dish (make sure it’s not a deep dish), and set aside.
- Pour 1½ inches of vegetable oil in a large pot or deep pan and heat it at 360 degrees. Prepare the dough while the oil is heating.
- Add the salt, sugar, butter and water to a large saucepan and boil over medium-high heat.
- Add flour, then reduce heat to medium-low and cook and stir constantly with a spatula until mixture comes together and is smooth (but it’s alright to have a few lumps in it).
- Transfer the mixture to a larger mixing bowl, let it cool for 5 minutes.
- Add vanilla and egg to flour mixture then (immediately) blend with an electric mixer.
- Blend it until mixture comes together and is smooth (it will separate at first but keep mixing and it will come together).
- Transfer it to a 16-inch piping bag fitted with a rounded star tip that is not bigger than ½ inch.
- Carefully pipe mixture into preheated oil, into about 6 inch lengths, cut the end with scissors.
- Let it fry about 2 minutes per side until it is a golden brown colour.
- Transfer it to paper towels to dry it quickly- for about 15 seconds (don’t wait too long or they’ll be dry and the sugar won’t stick as well).
- Transfer to the cinnamon sugar mixture and roll it to coat.
- Repeat the process with remaining dough (don’t fry more than 5 at once, separate with metal tongs if they stick to one another).
