Apple Fritters

These are so delicious I made them twice  over 2 days!

This recipe is from Laura Vitale

You can follow her video. 

http://www.laurainthekitchen.com/recipes/apple-fritters/

Recipe

Ingredients 

Cake flour 1.5 cups 

I changed this to 1/3 cup bread flour and 1 n 1/4 cups plain flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 cup caster sugar 

1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

Mix all the above in a bowl n set aside

Use another bowl n mix in the following

2/3 cup milk

1 egg

2 tablespoon melted unsalted butter

 (roughly around 33gm)

Peel and dice one Fuji apple

Add the wet into the dry ingredients

Mix with spatula 

Add in the diced apple

Mix well

Heat the oil  - I used my Meyer deep fryer and set temp to 5

If you use a wok, test the temp by sticking the end of wooden spoon into base of wok

The oil is hot enough if you see bubbles form at end of spoon

Prepare a tray with kitchen paper towels

Use an ice cream scoop n scoop half a scoop of the batter n lower into oil

Fry about 8 pcs at a time 

Turn them in the oil to try and achieve brown all over

When golden brown all over, remove n drain oil on paper towels 

When cooler, remove and place on plate.

Sprinkle some icing sugar over them and serve still warm

Ingredients except apple n oil

The batter 

Scoop half a scoop

Frying 

Drain on paper towels

Ready to eat 

Crispy exterior n soft interior with crunchy apple

Happy cooking!

Spiced Apple Cranberry Muffins

This recipe comes from Cooks.com submitted by Belle.

http://www.cooks.com/recipe/2r56n9cv/spiced-apple-cranberry-muffins.html

I like this fruity muffin a lot.

Recipe as follows :
2 cups of flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground ginger  (I omitted)
1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 large egg, beaten
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup molasses ( I replaced with honey)
1/4 cup veg oil
1 cup finely chopped spiced apple - I just used a red apple
3/4 cup sweetened dried cranberries

Preheat oven to 180 Celcius

Soak the cranberries in hot water for 15 minutes.
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger.
Stir until well mixed and no streaks remain.
Make a well in the center of mixture.

In a bowl, mix together the brown sugar, egg, milk, molasses (honey) and oil. Add to the dry ingredients, stirring until just moistened.
Fold in the apples and soaked cranberries.

Spoon batter into buttered or paper lined muffin pans, filling 2/3 full.

Bake for 16 minutes or until golden and a wooden toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out nearly clean.

Remove muffins from pan and cool on a wire rack.

Yields 9 muffins but I made 12.

Before baking 

Apple n dried cranberry 

After baking

Apple Loaf

Apple Loaf  Recipe is from Martha Day cookbook.  It is a marvellous cookbook with so many recipes yet to try them all!

 

 

Ingredients :

1 egg, 250ml bottled or homemade apple sauce, 55 g melted butter or margarine, 110 g dark brown sugar, 50 g caster sugar, 285 g plain flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 n 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg (i replace with 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg), 70 g currants or raisins, 55 g pecans or walnut chopped

 

 

1. Preheat 180 degree celcius oven. Line and grease your loaf tin.

2.Break the egg into the bowl and beat lightly. Stir in the apple sauce, melted butter and brown and caster sugar. Set aside.

 

 

 

 

 

3. In another bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Fold the dry ingredients into the apple sauce mixture in 3 batches.

 

 

4. Stir in the raisins and walnuts.

 

 

 

5. Pour into prepared tin and bake until skewer comes out clean. About 1 hr. Let stand 10 mins. Turn out onto a rack and cool completely. The top of loaf will be slightly hard. It smells really wonderful and the inside is very soft.

 

 

 

Enjoy cooking!