/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5569007
You should fry it in pork or beef fat. Dead serious.

Funnel cake is mostly something you get at county/state fairs and things like that. I haven't met very many people who have made it at home. I've seen kits for it at stores occasionally but I have no idea how good they are.

>>5569012
Not a problem, I make churros and tortas fritas in fat all the time.

>>5569015
Yes, I got that from my googling, but that's not gonna happen in my country, and I want to try them.

The trick is to prep your oil by throwing a few ice cubes in it. This really let's the funnel cake get a fucking delicious texture. & add a lot of powered sugar too

>tfw remembering when Jack in The Box used to sell mini funnel cake

I used to get them all the time. Now I have to wait for fairs and shit.

It's basically a thin pancake batter that is poured into the oil a certain way and fried so recipe is up to your preference. I'd probably go with a recipe that doesn't have butter in because I feel like that'd make it too rich but considering it's fried batter you might as well go for it and be full on fatty for the authentic 'merica experience

>>5569007
Make a crepe batter, put it in a squeeze bottle of some sort. Get a pot of oil hot enough to deep fry anything you want. Squeeze your crepe batter into the hot oil in a huge squiggly mess like the picture you posted.
Once it's golden brown you just cover it in whatever toppings you like.

>>5569232
>add a lot of powered sugar too
OP, you THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.

Also, where are you from that you've never had funnel cake (obv. outside US but just curious)? Funnel cake is my absolute all-time favorite fair/sporting event food.

Funnel cake is GOD DAMN DELICIOUS. I hope you make it OP.

>>5569273
Yes, I got the procedure from youtube videos, just wanted to make sure of the ingredients.

>>5569232
Never heard about the ice trick! Will try, thanks.

>>5569365
I'm from Argentina! When I saw the funnel cakes in the movie I thought they wuld be somethiing more similar to our tortas fritas (see pic) but googling tells me it's more like pancake/creppe batter, and anons confimerd. I'm definitely making them this weekend.

>>5569440
Oops forgot pic.

>>5569440
Not just a few ice cubes, mind you. You want a hot oil, to ice ratio of about 4 to 1.

Ice and hot oil... sounds like a great way to start a fire!

>>5569492
more like a giant scalding explosion that may or may not start a fire

>>5569440
Definitely let us know how it turns out. I would love to share in the joy that will be your first taste of warm funnel cake

>>5569026
anon if you've never had one you are in for a damn treat, its probably my favorite fair food splurge.

>inb4 amerifat

like most things we get shit over its something you eat maybe once a year on a special occasion. I love them and its been a couple years since I've had one.

>>5569492
A fire of flavor that is!

Anyone caught divulging the recipe for funnel cake will be paid an unpleasant visit.

We call them Strauben here in Austria.

>>5569440
please don't do the ice cube thing. please. it will hurt you.
funnel cakes are great. they make a bit of a mess in a home kitchen, but hot damn they're so tasty. one of the easiest ways to deal with them is to get a large squeeze bottle and cut the tip off so it's about 1/4 inch or .5 cm in diameter. put the batter in that and squeeze into the hot oil. remember to flip the funnel cake, and keep a thermometer to make sure the temperature is right. there's nothing better than a light fluffy funnelcake, but there's also nothing worse than an oil soaked or burnt lopsided wad of dough that can result if you don't follow directions.

anyway good luck, have fun, make sure to have friends over and lots of toppings like whipped cream, fruit and chocolate and always powdered sugar.

>>5569260
shut the fuck up you limpwristed cunt. you will never understand the deliciousness that comes with accepting a vice for a vice. i bet you'd gag if you had foie.

>>5569026
>Not a problem, I make churros and tortas fritas in fat all the time.

Well at that point you might as well just skip this whole thing. Funnel cake is great, but it's really just big flat churros with powder sugar.

>>5570694

unless it's not a vice to begin with retard

I eat funnel cake exactly once a year, at a local fair. This thread is making me crave funnel cake so bad ;__;

Pic related--it's the most recent funnel cake I ate, back in late April.

>>5570727
>implying fat, salt, sugar, and (more importantly) delicious meatsies that can only be acquired through what libtards call cruelty aren't vices

>>5570732
>meatsies
You sound fat and kind of stupid. I bet you wear a lot of cargo short and flame shirts. There sure are a lot of yokels and rubes on here lately. I bet you're the easiest mark in the world when you're walking down the midway. Keep getting those funnel cakes at the fair, and keep dropping money on games you won't win.

>>5570725
Seriously? Because the recipes I'm finding are different from the churro butter.

>>5570957
Surprise motherfucker, I'm actually Anna Kendrick.

>>5569440
>Never heard about the ice trick! Will try, thanks.

This will cause the oil to fucking lose its shit and you will sustain actual burns, anon was trolling you

>>5569440
I use crushed ice instead of cubes, I find it works way better and doesn't cool down the oil too much

They sell them in stores here around Easter.

>>5572226

i read that in doake's voice coming out of anna's mouth.

thank you for the chuckle.

>>5572262
that looks like shit

>>5572389
tastes good, faggot

>>5572262
That is not a fucking funnel cake, motherfucker.

>>5572432
wikipedia says it is.

>>5569232
You're gonna scald this mexican guy's skin. He doesn't cook amurican.

Holy shit I tried funnel cake for the first time the other day. It was wonderful.

>>5569440
They're sort of similar, but the texture is different

Sorry yuro gotta come to Murica to enjoy our fattening cuisine

>>5569440