When my husband first had a beignet we were at Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans and he said “It’s just fried dough with sugar”. Just. Pffft. I am no dum dum though, instead of launching into a discussion about whether this marriage was going to work or not I went ahead and finished them heh heh heh Somehow the idea of making them seemed a little intimidating, but when my little girl watched the Princess and the Frog and asked me what a Beignet was then I knew I had to get cracking. The dough recipe is pretty straightforward. I just halved the usual amount and found it still made several dozen. The dough that I fried up on day one was airier than the more flavourful dough of day two. Either way it is a win. I rolled mine thinner than most recipes suggested because doughy is not a word I am keen on and I must say it worked very well. These petite beignets were slightly chewy on the outside and light on the inside. Yum. Confectioners’ sugar and I aren’t best buds so I decided to create a citrus sugar for my beignets and folks, there […]

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