Funnel Cake

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown

Show: Good EatsEpisode: Choux Shine

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (68)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(68)

Cook Time:
10 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
10 cakes

Times:

Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 10 min
Total:: 20 min

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Ingredients

1 cup water
3/4 stick butter (6 tablespoons)
1 tablespoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup flour
1 cup eggs, about 4 large eggs and 2 whites
Vegetable oil, for frying
Powdered sugar, for topping

Directions

Boil water, butter, sugar, and salt together in a saucepan. Add flour and work it in until it is all incorporated and dough forms a ball. Transfer mixture to the bowl of a standing mixer and let cool for 3 to 4 minutes. With mixer lowest speed, add eggs, 1 at a time, making sure the first egg is completely incorporated before continuing. Once all eggs have been added and mixture is smooth, put dough in a piping bag fitted with a number 12 tip. Heat about 1 1/2 inches of oil in a heavy pan. Pipe dough into oil, making a free-form lattice pattern; cook until browned, flipping once. Remove cake from oil, drain on paper towels, and top with powdered sugar. Continue until all of the batter is used.

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recipe Funnel Cake
Chris Cashion, OK 10-17-2009
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Waste of Choux Pastry
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

This recipe isn't very easy. I'd rate it a 6 out of 10 for difficulty. And it IS NOT funnel cake. This dough is used to... make eclairs, cream puffs, crullers, and beignets. The true funnel cake batter is virtually identical to pancake batter. And as most of us know, pancake batter is very easy to make. Not sure why Alton diverted from his normal adherence to proper cooking and recipes. Even a friend of mine told me "you're wrong" when I explained how funnel cakes are made. He cited this episode. Of course, this isn't the only screw up Alton has made. I could cite at least a dozen more. But that's for another review. Bake your Choux pastry for eclairs and cream puffs. Fry your Choux pastry for crullers and beignets. Fry your pancake batter for funnel cakes.Read more
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Alexis Mechanicsburg, PA 10-16-2009
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This is not funnel cake.
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

Anyone who's coming to this recipe from a search needs to look at the title of this episode: Choux Shine. This recipe is for... deep fried choux. It's tasty (think French crullers) but it is not the funnel cake you get at a fair or carnival. That's a basic unleavened batter, much thinner so you can actually pour it through a funnel. Read more
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Louis Manchester, NH 09-28-2009
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Love it with a small change
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

A B most of your recipes are wonderful this one needed a small change, 1 tablespoon of Rum extract, 2 tablespoons of brown... sugar, and 2 tablespoons of white sugar, with three eggs and three egg whites. It was not as eggie as the first time we made it, this was only the second try and it was wonderful.Read more
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Albert arlington, TX 07-30-2009
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way too eggy
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

please, no one try this. my home stank of egg for a good while. it tasted like egg with powdered sugar and was really nasty. ... good lord man i expected better from you!Read more
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Lynn San Antonio, TX 06-10-2009
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Too eggy and bland...
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

Maybe I need to watch the episode on this one but I found these to be really bland and too eggy. It really tasted like a... scrambled egg sort of concoction to me. I know I have a dinky little cheap fryer (as opposed to a fry pan full of oil) but they took longer to cook than estimated too. Was not very pleased with the recipe - which is unfortunate because I look to AB for a LOT of my recipes and have been really happy before.Read more
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Camille Reisterstown, MD 05-22-2009
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Not worth the ingredients or trouble!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

these were way too eggy that none of the kids in the house would eat them. It didn't cook very well and i think that there is... way too many eggs in the recipe. It didn't seem like it even cooked all the way through. It was tasteless and disgusting. I am very disappointed. I will definitely never use this recipe again!Read more