Amish Apple Fritter Recipe
Today we are making an Amish Apple Fritter Recipe! With fall comes the vibes of falling leaves, pumpkin spice everything, pumpkin patches, Halloween, and … one of my favorite doughnuts, APPLE FRITTERS. Crunchy and sweet, dipped in sugar glaze, apples oozing out of every bite – the perfect autumn apple dessert (paired with a cup of apple cider!) is surely an underrated one.
In today’s easy recipe, I did some slight changes to an existing fritters recipe that’s linked in the recipe notes, and rolled it in cinnamon sugar for a nice crunch. TA-DA! Actually one of the first amazing donut (if you can call a fritter a donut) I’ve tried. So here you go!
Why You’ll Love This Amish Apple Fritter Recipe
Hot, Warm Spiced Cinnamon: This delicious treat is perfect with a large mug of coffee in the morning – even if you aren’t a morning person! Apple pie, apple crumble, or this warm apple fritter all give me that fuzzy feeling inside. Filled with fresh apple chunks, topped with a sweet glaze and fried to a true golden brown color makes me appreciate fall, a totally different season of life where the leaves are shedding and nature is going through its cycle. It’s apple season!
Substitutions
Vegan Butter: Avocado oil may work.
All Purpose Flour: Do not substitute anything for the flour. It may work with Bob Red Mill’s 1:1 All Purpose Flour substitute, but I haven’t tried it.
Lemon Juice: Do not substitute anything for the lemon juice.
Cane Sugar: Xylitol or brown sugar may work.
Flax Meal: Chia meal (ground up chia seeds) can also make a “chia egg” versus a “flax egg” made with flax meal.
Milk: Use your favorite non-dairy milk. I prefer oat milk for its creaminess. Taste the milk before using in the recipe. If you like drinking it plain, then it should be good to use in the recipe.
Amish Apple Fritter Recipe Notes
- Typically, Amish Apple Fritters are coated with a glaze. I used a cinnamon-sugar in my recipe, but the glaze option is given in the recipe card below.
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Amish Apple Fritter Recipe
Equipment
- Frying pan
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp flaxmeal
- 4 tbsp room temperature water
- 2 medium fresh apples diced // Granny Smith or Pink Lady apples work the best
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 3 tbsp vegan butter eg. Melt Organics butter sticks
- 10 tbsp non-dairy milk this is a half cup milk plus two tbsp
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- dash vanilla extract optional
For a Cinnamon-Sugar Coating
- 2 tbsp cane sugar brown sugar may work
- ¾ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp pink salt
For a Glaze Coating
- ½ cup icing sugar / powdered sugar
- non-dairy milk
For Frying
- canola oil or vegetable oil
Instructions
- Make the cinnamon-sugar mixture or the glaze first by combining the ingredients for each as given in the list above. For the glaze, start by adding one spoon of non-dairy milk to the icing sugar. Keep adding more until it can "drizzle" in terms of consistency.
- Mix the ingredients in a wide bowl, so each donut can be dipped fully into the mixture. Set this bowl aside until the fritters are done frying.
- In a small bowl, make the flax meal egg by mixing warm water and flaxmeal. Let sit in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- After 15 minutes, in a separate bowl mix together the butter, milk, and flaxmeal mixture.
- In another bowl, mix chopped apples with 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Then mix this into the wet ingredients.
- In a separate large mixing bowl, mix together the dry ingredients.
- Add the wet apple mixture to the dry flour mixture. It should be a little runny and if it isn't, add some more water to it (go teaspoon by teaspoon) until it's not a dough. You shouldn't be able to form a ball with it.
- Heat a frying pan filled with vegetable oil on the stovetop to 350 F. If you don't have a deep-fry thermometer to check the temperature, then drop a little bit of the mixture into the hot oil to make sure it is hot enough and the mixture is frying well.
- Drop small mounds of the apple mixture into the oil. The fritters should be small-medium sized. Allow them to brown on one side, then flip them over after. This should take about 5 minutes per fritter.
- When each fritter is done, use a slotted spoon to pick it up out of the oil. Roll the freshly fried fritters in the cinnamon mixture and place on paper towels to soak up any excess oil. Alternatively, drip glaze over the entire top of the fritter.
- When all the fritters are done, turn off the heat for the oil and let them cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack before eating.
- Enjoy fresh!
Notes
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Storage
- Calories were calculated using the cinnamon-sugar mixture and without the added oil for frying.
- I do not recommend to store these. They are best eaten fresh!
- Based on this recipe.
