Cream Cheese Beignets with Walnut Honey

Name: Cream Cheese Beignets with Walnut Honey
Yield: Serves 4-6
Ingredients: Icing sugar, for dusting; Zest of ½ lemon; Vegetable oil, for deep-frying; 25 g (1 oz, 2 tablespoons) caster sugar; 150 g (5 oz, generous 1 cup) plain flour, sifted; 150 ml (¼ pint, ⅔ cup) clear honey; 2 eggs; 75 g (3 oz, ¾ cup) walnuts, chopped; 450 g (1 lb, 2 cups) cream cheese

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Passion for Cheese

By Paul Gayler

Published 1997

About

These beignets are one of those sticky, Middle Eastern-style desserts with lots of honey and nuts. Rather than the usual heavy pastries, however, they are light and fluffy little fritters.

Ingredients

450 g (1 lb, 2 cups) cream cheese
25

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Put the cheese, sugar and lemon zest in a bowl and beat together until smooth. Stir in the flour a little at a time, until thoroughly combined. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then set aside and leave to stand for up to 1 hour.

Put the vegetable oil in a deep-fat fryer or large saucepan and heat to 190°C, 375°F. Drop heaped teaspoonfuls of the cheese mixture into the hot oil a few at a