Maple Bacon Apple Fritters
Maple Bacon Apple Fritters
They taste as wonderful as they sound. I wanted to take dessert to dinner last night. I had a lot of apples and a couple of hours. I’d made several apple cakes lately so wanted to go in a different direction. Apple fritters seemed like a good idea. I made a yeast dough and used just enough flour to make a thick batter. I wanted them to be light. The original plan was just to make apple fritters but since I was cooking bacon for another dish already it seemed like a cool idea to add bacon to the dough. Then the idea of making the glaze with maple syrup made sense. I decided I had better post this soon- before I forgot what I did.
Maple Bacon Apple Fritters
3 c. flour
1 packet active dry yeast
2 T. sugar
2 t. cinnamon
1 t. salt
1/2 c. half and half
1/2 c. water
1 egg
2 c. finely chopped apples- peels and cores removed
1/2 c. cooked crumbled bacon
oil for deep-frying
Glaze:
2 c. powdered sugar
several tablespoons maple syrup
In mixing bowl- I used a stand mixer- place 2 cups of the flour with the yeast, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Heat together the half and half and water until warm and add to flour mixture. Beat with electric mixer for 3 minutes. Add the egg and the last cup of flour and mix 4 minutes more. Batter will be very thick. Mix in apples and bacon. Cover and let dough rise for 45 minutes. Flour work surface and scrape dough onto floured surface. It’s sticky so be careful here. I dusted the dough with flour and shaped into a square. Handle as little as possible. Using a dough scraper- a knife would also work- I cut the dough into squares- about 2 inches across. Don’t worry about them being perfect. They are supposed to be rustic. Heat oil in pan to 350 degrees. Make sure oil is at least a couple of inches deep. To save on oil I used a smallish pan- but only cooked a few at a time. To know when I have reached 350 degrees I place a kernel of un-popped popcorn in the pan when heating the oil. The popcorn will pop at 350 degrees. When the oil is hot enough, fry the fritters, a few at a time, until golden on both sides. It will take a couple of minutes. Turn to cook on both sides. Drain 0n paper towels. While fritters are cooling mix powdered sugar with maple syrup to make a thick glaze for dipping. Dip fritter tops into the glaze- allow excess to drip off. Place on tray and glaze will drizzle to cover the fritters. Makes about 24.
Cut dough into 2-inch squares
Fry until golden
Dip warm fritters into maple glaze
Freshly dipped fritter
Glaze will harden as fritters cool
