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Love & Best Dishes: Homemade Funnel Cake Batter Recipe | How to Make Funnel Cakes
May 14, 2022
Homemade Funnel Cake Batter Recipe | How to Make Funnel Cakes - Paula is sharing her for homemade funnel cakes recipe so we can enjoy fair food recipes at home!
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0:00
- Hey, y'all.
0:01
(laughs)
0:02
Good morning, good morning, good morning.
0:04
Who's in the mood for a funnel cake,
0:06
besides Ira Strong?
0:08
(laughs)
0:09
Y'all, I got a letter from Ms. Ira Strong
0:14
from Houston, Texas.
0:15
And she said,
0:16
hi, Paula, would you please make
0:18
a funnel cake like at the fair?
0:20
I just love the little funnels,
0:22
but cannot get them right.
0:24
So I've got to be perfectly honest with you, Ira,
0:29
I've had to play with this one.
0:31
It's been so long since I made a funnel cake.
0:35
I had to really
0:37
(laughs)
0:38
get out the old books.
0:42
And my recipe that's on the website,
0:47
it's a five star recipe.
0:51
I first,
0:52
thank you, Theresa.
0:53
- [Teresa] You're welcome. - The first time I did it,
0:56
I got my piping bag
0:59
and I cut a little hole in it.
1:01
That is wrong because this batter is so thin,
1:04
it just all poured out and-
1:10
- [Michael] Should have put a littler hole.
1:11
- Huh?
1:13
Yeah, should have put a littler hole
1:15
or not a hole at all because it's that thin.
1:19
So
1:23
I happen to have a funnel in the pantry,
1:28
but I didn't use it.
1:30
So Eddie has pulled that out
1:31
and said, I think you oughta tried the funnel.
1:33
He and Teresa both voted for this.
1:35
But I think that you will find
1:38
if you don't have a funnel maker,
1:42
I would recommend just using a measuring cup
1:46
where you have more control.
1:48
Those holes in the bag,
1:49
you ain't got control, Ira.
1:51
So throw that bag in the trash.
1:54
All right, so I'm gonna start
2:00
by putting our dry ingredients together.
2:02
I've got a tablespoon of sugar.
2:05
You know, it really doesn't need much sugar
2:06
because we gonna top it with powdered sugar.
2:11
All right, a teaspoon of salt,
2:14
and a teaspoon of baking soda.
2:19
Baking soda, right?
2:20
Yes.
2:27
And because the batter was so thin.
2:31
I had bumped my recipe up to two eggs.
2:35
So that's what we gonna try this time.
2:41
So there's our eggs
2:45
and our milk.
2:47
Now the recipe calls for two cups of milk.
2:50
So like I said, it's a thin, thin batter
2:54
but I'm just gonna start with the one cup
2:57
and oh my gosh.
2:59
I pulled something up there.
3:00
Reached too far.
3:02
- [Michael] Oh, no.
3:03
- Uh-oh!
3:05
And my distance ain't so good.
3:06
We just wanna "ah!"
3:11
Oh, y'all, this getting old?
3:13
It ain't for sissies.
3:14
I'll tell you right now.
3:18
You can't put your head in the sand
3:20
and pretend like it don't exist no more.
3:25
Okay. So we are gonna slowly add our dry ingredients
3:29
to our wet.
3:31
All right, let's see.
3:32
I need my vanilla
3:34
about a teaspoon of vanilla.
3:36
- [Teresa] You need the mixer, don't you?
3:38
- Yeah, but you know what?
3:39
I think I'm just gonna try doing it this way, Teresa.
3:43
Although you're supposed to get a smooth, smooth batter.
3:46
So I may need to pull that out.
3:51
Why don't I just go ahead and do that?
3:53
- [Michael] Your recipes are toughest to follow.
3:55
'Cause you change everything.
3:57
You just change everything.
3:58
You said you're supposed to-
4:00
- No, I just added...
4:01
- [Michael] Supposed to be two cups,
4:02
But I'll do one cup.
4:03
It's supposed to be more.
4:04
- We're playing, we're playing around.
4:07
- Supposed to use the mixer,
4:09
but I'm not gonna use the mixer.
4:11
- Cause I tell you what Ira,
4:13
it got my goat yesterday.
4:16
I finally just had to tell Eddie and Teresa
4:19
that I think we need to hang it up for this day.
4:22
- [Eddie] Well, now don't put yourself down
4:25
because someone here said
4:27
it was the best thing he's ever eaten.
4:30
- That's because he lives off of McDonald's.
4:34
- [Teresa] It was still a compliment.
4:35
- It was, it was.
4:37
- [Teresa] It may have not looked pretty.
4:39
- He won't eat any thing I make,
4:43
but those flopped funnel cakes he loved.
4:49
- [Teresa] We're talking about Mike.
4:50
- Oh Mike.
4:53
Okay.
4:57
So I think you were right on the money
5:00
with the mixer, Teresa.
5:05
I'd probably had to call Michael over here to beat it.
5:10
If I did it by hand.
5:14
So like I said,
5:17
the recipe calls for two cups of milk
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but I'm doing it a little slower this go around
5:25
and I'm going add that second cup
5:28
little on the slow side.
5:44
I'm not a leftie.
5:53
I just hate for something to get my goat, Ira.
6:00
And I know most people
6:04
don't like that.
6:08
And I'm determined
6:12
if I'm not gonna quit 'til I got it.
6:15
- [Teresa] So we're on to day two.
6:17
- And we're on to day two!
6:22
And, Teresa
6:25
had to run the grocery store a little while ago
6:27
and I said please look
6:29
and see if there's any thermometers for grease.
6:34
And I got candy thermometers
6:36
but those don't go up high enough.
6:43
So she found one.
6:44
So we don't have to guess today
6:46
but in my research
6:52
last night...
6:56
Went to bed thinking about that damn funnel cake, Ira.
7:03
Okay, I think that was like 3/4ths of the cup.
7:05
Wasn't it?
7:06
So I cut that back like a fourth of a cup.
7:17
Okay, it really turns into a smooth batter fairly quick.
7:24
All right, let's see what our thermometer says.
7:26
It's like 340
7:30
and this needs to be cooked
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Probably start around 375
7:35
and then maybe turn it down a little bit.
7:40
But I'm so proud to have that.
7:42
But in my research last night
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I had forgotten all about this tip.
7:49
I had heard it, gosh, probably 20, 25 years ago.
7:53
But if you don't have a thermometer
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you can stick the end of a wooden spoon in your grease.
8:00
And if it bubbles around it,
8:03
your grease is ready.
8:04
See it's bubbling.
8:06
Can you sit bubbling, Eddie?
8:11
See it?
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- [Eddie] Yes, yes.
8:12
- [Paula] You see it, seen it?
8:14
I seen it.
8:18
Okay.
8:22
The wooden spoon says it's ready,
8:24
but our thermometer says not.
8:27
So I'm going, I'm gonna turn this back up.
8:32
I had it high and then I
8:36
turned it down.
8:37
Let's see.
8:40
What's the least messiest way to get this-
8:45
- [Teresa] Don't forget the butter.
8:46
- Oh gosh, Teresa.
8:50
- [Teresa] Or we'd be back today for it.
8:51
- [Paula] I know it.
8:54
And then we've got a half a stick of melted butter
8:58
and we're just gonna fold that in at the end.
9:04
- [Michael] That's bad when you forget the butter.
9:05
- I know, that is bad, isn't it Michael?
9:09
- [Michael] Something's going on.
9:15
- All right.
9:17
Here we go, cook 'em up.
9:23
I just gotta keep my eye on that can of grease.
9:30
And I totally recommend
9:36
using peanut oil.
9:38
You know, as long as nobody in your family
9:40
has peanut allergies.
9:43
It has a greater resistance to burning.
9:51
So I don't wanna fill this too full
9:52
because if I get too heavy handed,
9:55
I wanna be able to stop it quick.
10:00
So here we go, Ira.
10:01
I'm using a different method this day.
10:05
So I wanna start on the outside edges
10:16
and go round and round and round.
10:20
Zigzag it.
10:25
Okay.
10:28
You know another thing I think we can do, y'all,
10:31
is use a pancake batter, you know?
10:38
I'm just gonna take that out now.
10:42
I'm get rid of all our little crumbs
10:51
and these cooked very quick.
10:53
I made it bigger than I meant to, y'all.
10:56
This is about the size that the fair makes 'em though,
10:58
isn't it?
11:00
- [Teresa] They're like plate sizes.
11:01
- [Paula] Yeah.
11:08
All right.
11:09
Let's see if I can do this.
11:11
Going to bring my grandmother Paul's spatula in
11:13
for the big job.
11:18
Oh, shoot.
11:21
It tore up.
11:25
That's why I didn't wanna make it so big.
11:29
- [Teresa] Well, the bigger, the better.
11:32
- [Paula] It's so hard.
11:33
Look, I love those crumbs like that.
11:47
Okay.
11:59
Okay, so this looks better
12:03
than yesterday's project,
12:05
but it's still too thin.
12:08
So I'm gonna cut back on the milk.
12:11
- [Teresa] Okay, so maybe like a cup and a half at the most?
12:14
- Maybe just a cup Teresa.
12:18
I swear, this is,
12:27
this is really...
12:28
- [Teresa] Ooh it looks good though.
12:30
- Doesn't it look good?
12:31
- [Eddie] So I wonder what the difference is
12:32
between funnel cake and fried dough?
12:38
- [Teresa] Nothing. - Nothing.
12:39
- [Eddie] It's the same, okay.
12:40
- [Teresa] I think it's just the fact
12:41
that there artesians out there
12:42
that can make it look like a funnel.
12:44
- [Eddie] Oh, okay.
12:45
- [Teresa] We apparently can't.
12:46
- [Eddie] I was gonna say,
12:47
'cause this reminds me of
12:48
when we would go to the beach back home,
12:50
the fried dough stands. - Yes, yes.
12:52
Oh my gosh.
12:53
We used go to Panama City
12:54
and we'd get a fried shrimp basket.
12:58
And they threw in a fried biscuit.
13:01
They throw the biscuit in the dough.
13:06
- [Eddie] Yeah.
13:07
- Speechless.
13:09
It was so good.
13:11
- [Eddie] Well, when you mentioned fruit yesterday
13:13
I seem to remember them having
13:14
like the fruit topping - Yeah.
13:16
- [Eddie] and the cinnamon sugar.
13:18
- [Teresa] Well, I think you can put
13:18
all kinds of things on this.
13:20
- Oh yeah you can.
13:21
You can just get like cherry pie filling
13:27
and put in the center of it.
13:29
- [Teresa] Well, I think that looks good.
13:30
- [Paula] Ira.
13:33
I think we got it girl,
13:36
but we gonna cut down on that milk some.
13:38
- [Teresa] You know, Ira could be a guy.
13:41
- No, it says Mrs.
13:43
- [Teresa] Oh, does it?
13:44
Okay, I just didn't want to...
13:46
- Our pool guy is named Ira.
13:53
Okay.
13:54
Call Mike.
13:57
Not Michael, but Mike.
14:00
'Cause he's a true test.
14:01
Uh-oh I didn't get any on the edges.
14:03
- [Teresa] It's gotta be hot.
14:05
- Yes. It's hot.
14:09
You want some Mikey?
14:12
Mikey-Mike?
14:14
Come on, get you some.
14:18
- [Teresa] Oh, you just can't go wrong with grease.
14:23
- So...
14:27
Yu know, I love my biscuit mix.
14:30
I love my biscuit mix.
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I think it's the best one out there on the shelves.
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So I think that my biscuit mix-
14:42
I wanna try making a funnel cake with my biscuit mix.
14:45
But you would just put more milk in it.
14:49
And I make my biscuits with buttermilk
14:51
but I would use regular sweet milk on the funnel cake.
14:56
What's the verdict P-Paul?
15:00
- Might get you a job at the Tilt-A-Whirl.
15:02
Operating the Tilt-A-Whirl.
15:04
You making funnel cakes at a fair.
15:11
- Why do I stay?
15:15
Why do I stay?
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- [Teresa] 'Cause love's blind.
15:19
- For the money.
15:25
Yum, yum.
15:26
Come on Eddie reach in here get you some.
15:28
Theresa, did you get some yet?
15:29
- [Teresa] I did.
15:32
- [Michael] I like the part that fell off.
15:34
- I know me too, Michael.
15:38
So.
15:41
- [Teresa] Well, at least
15:42
it's the second time's the charm on this one.
15:44
- But still too thin.
15:51
- Let's see, I turned the fire off,
15:52
but I'm gonna see if I can get this.
15:55
- [Michael] Yeah, just do the little ones.
15:57
- Yeah.
16:01
That's a good size one right there, now..
16:04
That size is manageable.
16:07
This one's gonna be really good.
16:10
Not the most beautiful funnel cake.
16:12
But it's going chew real good.
16:25
All right, Mike, you want to slide me the plate
16:30
back over?
16:39
Look at that one, Teresa.
16:41
- [Michael] You're getting closer.
16:43
- Huh-uh.
16:44
Look Teresa.
16:46
Too bad I covered it with sugar now.
16:49
- [Teresa] Oh yeah.
16:50
We're getting there.
16:51
- Oh, I love it when it breaks apart like that.
16:56
Okay, Ira, we gonna keep playing with this consistency
17:00
until we get it just right.
17:04
Right?
17:07
- [Teresa] Like I said, the recipe's amazing.
17:09
- [Paula] Yes. The flavor is incredible
17:12
and I love, I love the vanilla flavoring.
17:16
You know, that it adds to it.
17:20
You think Eddie?
17:26
Would you like some Eddie?
17:27
- [Eddie] Yes.
17:28
- I'm offering you some.
17:29
- [Teresa] Don't forget to take a picture.
17:32
- Okay, take a picture of this.
17:36
Oh.
17:40
Mikey.
17:42
- [Michael] All right.
17:47
- I got my own thing.
17:48
- Here, have a bite of that.
17:50
- No, you ain't getting me again.
17:54
- Something right here.
17:55
- Bye y'all.
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