- If you ever wanted to make homemade funnel cake,
then today's video's for you.
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where I, John Kanell, teach you how to make
delicious homemade dishes to share
with your family and friends.
This funnel cake will be ready before you know it.
So let's get started.
First off, we're going to pour about two inches of oil
into a large Dutch Oven or pot
and then we're going to set it over medium high heat.
I want this to be 370
before we start adding our batter in.
Just a drop of oil.
Now into a large bowl,
I'm adding three quarters of a cup of milk.
Two large eggs.
Teaspoon of a nice vanilla measured exactly.
Two tablespoons of granulated sugar.
And we're going to whisk that up.
Give that a good whisk until it's nice and smooth.
And now in a smaller bowl, we're going to combine
the dry ingredients and mix this up.
This is basically like a runny pancake batter,
but you're making the most amazing thing in the world.
Funnel cake.
I'm so obsessed with it because as a child,
we would go to Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm
and they have a really good funnel cake.
Right now I'm adding one and three quarter cups
of all purpose flour, that's 210 grams.
Half a teaspoon of salt.
And three quarters of a teaspoon of baking powder
so it can puff up. (laughing)
Our scale is done.
We're going to give this a whisk
and keep a careful eye on our oil.
You want it to be 370,
so if it's too cold, they'll be soggy.
If it's too hot, they'll be burnt.
Candy thermometer is very helpful right now.
A quick word about the whole funnel thing.
So I just so happened to find in the basement
this funnel that I used for filling pastries.
It's kind of fancy and I love it,
but I never use it, except for today.
If you don't have a big funnel,
what you can just do is use a pastry bag
and just snip the tip off.
Really it's so easy and foolproof.
So you can use a funnel, a bag,
and I'll show you both ways I think.
My oil's getting close.
We're going to combine the wet and the dry right now.
I'm just going to stir it together
because that whisk is going to be a mess.
Oh my gosh! I love seeing
the potential of the deliciousness
that will be funnel cake.
Sort of fold it together.
Get rid of those lumps.
I'm going to try and use this.
I am just a little bit skeptical
if it is thin enough for this to happen.
So let's add a little bit in.
There's a stopper that's built-in , this is the trigger.
(giggling)
As I feared, it's not coming out,
so we're going to use the piping bag.
Huh! I'll never get to use this.
It needs a larger diameter hole.
I know that if I put a lot of batter in here,
it would force some out
but it's still not going to be good enough.
So we're just going to set that aside.
Fill a piping bag up and squeeze it up.
I want about a half inch opening
so you can snip the tip off
or use the appropriate round tip.
And now we're just gonna squeeze
this out into a circular motion
to create a delicious disk
to share with your family and friends.
All right, squeeze that out.
It should be about six inches
and you can just drizzle it to kind of create a nest.
We're going to do the first one just by itself,
but after you get more confident,
you can do two or even three at a time,
depending on how large your Dutch Oven is.
We're going to fry this until it's a deep
golden brown color
and then use a spider or slotted spoon to flip it out,
and then keep going.
Oh, I can just see the powdered sugar piled on top.
You want to get a wire cooling rack
and some paper towels just to sop up the excess oil.
And then this can just go upside down if you're careful.
(soft whimsical music)
(laughing) I'm so excited!
You know, a lot of the fairs have been closed
and not open for business.
So I cannot tell you how many times
I've been craving funnel cake, but it's not happening.
All right! So one, then you just keep going.
This is so easy to pipe.
And at first the batter is going to sink
and you're like, "Oh, where did it go?"
But it'll come and pop right back up.
You know, I'm going to do three at a time
'cause I feel totally confident in this.
So we like to have these with just powdered sugar.
But if you have funnel cake with something else,
let me know in the comments.
Is it jammed?
Do you have some caramel, some chocolate?
Does all this sound good to you
and maybe you're just like,
"I'm going to add it to my recipe."
Let me know, I'm totally down to try something else.
All my batter is done,
and this made about nine funnel cakes.
It made exactly nine funnel cakes,
but it could be a little bit more or a little bit less.
You might like yours jumbo, mega funnel.
Once these are out of the oven,
dust liberally with powdered sugar.
And just like that, they're ready to serve.
Let me know what you call these
if there's a different name where you live.
If you like this video,
check out my quick and easy dessert playlist.
Mmmh! Crunchy.
Perfectly sweet. Just right.
I'll see you in the next video.