Apple Donut Goodness

Right so this week has been a wee bit hectic with me being back at work x2. I say x2 because I'm actually doing two jobs. Couple of hours working for the youth department at our Church and taking on 6 Musical Theatre groups. This was our first week of doing both and SB was AMAZING as she  comes to both work places with me. Check out the smile I got while she sat next to me on the couch when I worked from home on Wednesday. How delicious is she? 

Anyway she was in bed by 8:30pm tonight and I went to put the kettle on to make my new favourite "nightcap" Red Seal's Apple and Elderflower tea and watch My Kitchen Rules on youtube. The thing is the kettle didn't work so I asked J to come and have a look at it and he fixed it, but turning it on at the wall, but by that time I was firmly implanted onto the couch and had absolutely no energy to get up and make myself tea. Anyway on MKR the dessert they made were Italian donuts. I got up to get a glass of water and there they were staring me in the face. Deliciously tart green apples and this amazing Merlot J got from work which I have been rationing over the past month. Now J has this thing whenever deep frying is mentioned he get's all excited like a kid on Christmas morning and goes ooh oooh ooh we can make apple donuts! And for some reason watching donuts being fried on MKR gave me the inspiration to make these bad boys. 

Super easy to make, deliciously indulgent. We both especially love the tart taste that comes through from the green apples that makes this dessert not to sweet...but don't do a me and smoke out the house at 10pm. The best thing is that these are ingredients that most of us have on hand all the time.

The Paul's Apple Donut Goodness

3 Green apples cored and sliced very thinly so they are donut shaped with a hole in the middle (I didn't have a corer thingy so I just halved and sliced them) 

Batter

1/2 cup of flour

2 T Brown Sugar

3 t cinnamon

Water

Coating

Cinnamon

Icing Sugar

1. Heat oil in a pan, just a shallow amount. Approximately an inch. *Putting the lid on, gets the oil hotter, faster

2. Sift flour, brown sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. I like the batter on this nice and thin, almost like a tempura, so I add water in until I get the desired consistency I like, which is almost as thin as milk. But if you like your batter thicker go for a custard like consistency

3. To test the heat of the oil, drop in a bit of batter and see how long it takes to go brown. Adjust your temp from there. I ended up needing to lower the temp on my oil as my first apple went black in 20 seconds

4. Once you get your oil to a desired temp, coat your apples and stick them in the oil, they should take 30-50 seconds

5. Put them on a kitchen towel to drain excess oil

6. If I were making these for guests I would dust them individually with my cinnamon, icing sugar mix but as it was 10pm, my house was smoky and the Blacklist was loaded ready to go, I simply put a few tablespoons of icing sugar in a bowl with a generous sprinkle of cinnamon and then tossed the apple donuts through. 

Yes J did complain about the smoke but once he had implanted himself next to me on our couch with a bowl of apple donuts on one knee and a bowl of ice cream on the other, there were no complaints in this house hold!

Enjoy xx