Homemade Apple Fritter Recipe with Cinnamon and Sugar

Is there anything better than a simple delicious dessert that takes less than 30 minutes to make?  If you love these types of recipes then you will fall head over heels for this Homemade Apple Fritter Recipe with Cinnamon and Sugar.  Apple fritters are those tasty odd shaped donuts that you see at your local donut shop usually covered in some sort of glaze.  While I usually dig the glaze, I thought a cinnamon and sugar dusting would be more complimentary to the apples as well as the vanilla bean ice cream and honey I put over top!

If you were able to join me in the Franke Kitchen Systems booth at KBIS in Orlando Florida last month then you got to try this Homemade Apple Fritter Recipe with Cinnamon and Sugar live.  Everyone who hung out, watched the demo and got to eat them were beyond ecstatic at just how easy they are to make as well as just how delicious they are.  While I served the apple fritter recipe up with some homemade whipped cream at KBIS, I decided to change it up a bit at home by topping off with vanilla bean ice cream and honey.  While both toppings were amazing, I’m a bit partial to the ice cream and honey because well, it’s ice cream!

It probably takes a total of 25 minutes to make the apple fritter batter, dice the apples and get a batch fried up, it’ seriously that easy.  The batter is a basic dough that uses eggs and baking powder to help the recipe rise as well as making it light and fluffy.  It’s important to whisk the eggs and milk in a separate bowl because often times if you just add the eggs whole to the dry ingredients it becomes difficult to completely whisk it due to the other ingredients, so do it separate.

The Franke Roller Mat in our house is coveted by all who get the opportunity to witness it live.  They. Love. It.  Whether they see me use it to dry dishes on, or as a hot pad to keep it from messing up my countertops, or just as I did in this recipe by using it as a colander to wash off produce.  The Franke Roller Mat is so versatile and honestly used every single day in our house.  Once you wash off the apples you then want to peel them up and slice them very thinly around the core.  I always just peel my produce right into my Franke Farm House sink because the Franke garbage disposer we have is so insanely awesome and powerful enough to move a boat, it’s amazing!  I like to use a combo of sweet and sour apples so for this apple fritter recipe I used gala and granny smith apples.  You could absolutely use fuji, honey crisp or whatever sweet apples that you prefer.

While small dicing your apples just know that shape really does not matter, just as long as they are on the smaller side.  When you are done dicing up your apples you want to toss them around with a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg before folding them into the apple fritter batter.  The batter is thick so folding in the apples may take a few minutes to make sure they’re completely mixed in.  Once the batter is formed then it’s now time for frying, which is really easy.  I use canola oil when frying up these apple fritters because it’s a little cleaner neutral oil with a high smoking point to ensure the fritters are cooked through and have a nice golden brown to them.  You want your oil to be In between 350° to 375° when frying these apple fritters, but if you don’t have a candy thermometer to test the temperature of the oil than just add a little bit of batter into the oil and if it fries up and floats to the top then you are good to go.  I add about 1 to 2 tablespoons of batter at a time to the oil but feel free to go bigger or even smaller if you’d like.  If you notice the apple fritters are turning brown quickly just simply turn the heat down a little so that they are still frying but not turning as brown as fast.

Once your fritter batter is all fried up toss them in a bit of cinnamon and sugar before topping off with ice cream and honey!  MAKE THIS ASAP!!!