Easy spiced apple fritters

Name: Easy spiced apple fritters
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1 cup Flour, a large one; ¼ cup Caster sugar; 1 tsp Baking powder; ¼ tsp Apple spice mix, for batter, see recipe below, plus more spice mix and caster sugar combined to dust over cooked fritters; ¼ tsp Salt; 3 Eggs; 50 ml Cream; ⅔ cup Apple cider, approximately (Main); 2 Apples, use up to 3 apples, depending upon size, thinly sliced (use a mandolin if you have one) (Main); 1 bottle Cooking oil, enough to shallow or deep-fry fritters

for 8 people

Tam West

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Ingredients

1 cup	Flour, a large one
¼ cup	Caster sugar
1 tsp	Baking powder
¼ tsp	Apple spice mix, for batter, see recipe below, plus more spice mix and caster sugar combined to dust over cooked fritters
¼ tsp	Salt
3	Eggs
50 ml	Cream
⅔ cup	Apple cider, approximately (Main)
2	Apples, use up to 3 apples, depending upon size, thinly sliced (use a mandolin if you have one) (Main)
1 bottle	Cooking oil, enough to shallow or deep-fry fritters

Directions

Sift flour with caster sugar, baking powder and apple spice mix (see recipe below) and salt. Whisk eggs with cream. Add to a well in centre of flour and whisk to incorporate. Add apple cider and whisk into a smooth batter. Chill 30 minutes.
Thinly slice apples and mix into batter.
Shallow or deep-fry large spoonfuls of the batter into beignet-like fritters and dust them with a mix of apple spice and sugar. Or fry the mix in butter to make apple pancakes, sprinkled with apple spice sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice to serve.

Apple spice mix

Lightly toast 1 tsp each of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, mace or nutmeg and black peppercorns. Cool and blitz (in a spice mill or coffee grinder) until finely ground and store in a jar.