Fun Cake Sundae: Funnel Cake, Ice cream and Whipped Cream Recipe

Funnel Cake is a delicious, light summer time dessert. It is easy to make and tastes delicious with an ice cream sundae plopped on top! Funnel cake is deep-fried that is why I did not make a big serving. It reminds me of popcorn in the sense, after the first bite you unknowingly keep eating because it is “THERE”.

You need to set up a Dutch Oven for the recipe or use a deep fryer. I put a bunch of canola oil in a stainless steel pot.

Ingredients

• Canola oil for frying

• 1/2 cup confectioners sugar

• 4 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 Tbs. baking powder

• 3/4 tsp. salt

• 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

• 3 eggs, lightly beaten

• 3 to 4 cups milk

• 2 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1. Mix the baking power, flour, salt, brown sugar. In a separate bowl mix the eggs, milk and vanilla.

2. Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture. Wisk for 2-3 minutes.

3. Heat up the oil to about 200- 350 F.

4. Now comes the hard part you are going to have to FUNNEL the cake batter into the Dutch Oven. I used my Wilton dessert decorator (which I use to icing cake). I poured the batter and squeezed it out in a circular motion into the dutch oven. If you don’t have one of these just spoon the mixture into a plastic baggy and cut a hole (pictured below).

4. Let the cake brown which takes about 5-10 minutes

5. Transfer to a plate and sprinkle confectioners sugar.

7. I added one scoop of chocolate-vanilla ice cream and some low fat whipped cream.