Unfortunately as much as I love living in Carpinteria, I gotta say this year's Avocado Festival was pretty weak. Where were all the avocado?! I did enjoy my first DEEP FRIED AVOCADO. Why not deep fry an avocado?! Lets deep fry everything.
Including FUNNEL CAKES. Ahhh, my all time favorite festival pastime. Brings me back to the ol' Contraband Days festival back home. I can scarf down a cake in seconds.
Two big thumbs up for the poor guy sweating his ass off in the funnel cake cart at the festival. That was the only booth with a line! Its been very hard for me to find funnel cakes that live up to my southern fried standards, but this was perfect! (load me up on the powered sugar next time!)
Well Sunday was the last day of the festival and I wasn't going to say goodbye until I got another powdery mouthful of my favorite treat! I ran...RAN to my Mr. Funnel Cake man. :(
No. He was closed. That really hurt. But I dried my tears and dragged Alphonso to the grocery store.
We are DEFINITELY having Funnel Cake for my birthday. I am a funnel cake pro!
Ingredients:
1 egg
2/3 cup milk
2 tbsp. sugar
1 1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
Directions:
1. In a deep skillet, heat about two cups of oil over medium-high heat until hot. Test the temperature by dropping a pinch of flour into the hot oil. If it sizzles right away without smoking, it's perfect.
2. Beat egg and milk. Mix all other ingredients in a separate bowl and slowly add to the egg mixture, beating until smooth.
3. Using a funnel, drop into hot oil working from center outwards in a web pattern. (You can use a gallon sized freezer bag instead of a funnel by pouring the batter into the bag, snipping off a small corner of it, and squeezing the batter into the oil.)
4. Cook for about 2-3 minutes, remove from the oil when golden brown and crispy.
5. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.
