These easy spiced apple fritters will spice up your winter

There are few things as delicious or as comforting as a warm homemade dessert and these easy spiced apple fritters are a home run any time of the year!

All you need are a handful of ingredients and in no time your kitchen will smell amazing and everyone will be licking their fingers!

 Ingredients:

1 cup Flour

¼ cup Caster sugar

1 tsp Baking powder

¼ tsp Apple spice mix for batter (see recipe below) plus more spice mix to dust over cooked fritters

¼ tsp Salt

3 Eggs

50 ml Cream

⅔ cup Apple cider, approximately

2 Apples, use up to 3 apples, depending upon size, thinly sliced (use a mandolin if you have one)

Enough Cooking oil to shallow or deep-fry fritters

Apple Spice Mix:

Lightly toast 1 tsp each of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, mace or nutmeg and black peppercorns. Cool and blitz (in a spice mill or coffee grinder) until finely ground and store in a jar.

Method:

1. Sift flour with caster sugar, baking powder and apple spice mix (see recipe below) and salt.
2. Whisk eggs with cream. Add to a well in the centre of flour and whisk to incorporate.
3. Add apple cider and whisk into a smooth batter. Chill 30 minutes.
4. Thinly slice apples and mix into batter.
5. Shallow or deep-fry large spoonfuls of the batter into beignet-like fritters and dust them with a mix of apple spice and sugar. Or fry the mix in butter to make apple pancakes, sprinkled with apple spice sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice to serve.

Enjoy!