Apple fritters with fruits in rum

Name: Apple fritters with fruits in rum (Apfelkrapfen mit Rumtopf)
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 200 g/7 oz/1¾ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour; 100 ml/3½ fl oz/scant ½ cup milk; 5 ml/1 tsp baking powder; 40 g/1 oz caster (superfine) sugar; pinch of salt; 5 ml/1 tsp butter; 2 apples; oil, for deep-frying; icing (confectioners’) sugar, to dust

Apfelkrapfen mit Rumtopf

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Germany

By Mirko Trenkner

Published 2009

About

Fruit fritters are a very popular dessert in Germany. At festivals you can smell them cooking from far off, and the aroma draws you like a magnet. Here, they are served with Rumtopf, a delicious traditional German preserve.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz/1¾ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour
100

Europe
Germany
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Mix the flour and milk in a bowl and add the baking powder, sugar and salt. Melt the butter in a small pan until it starts to brown, then mix it into the batter.
Heat the oil in a deep-fryer to 180°C/350°F. Peel and core the apples and cut them in