Quickest apple fritters with caramel sauce

Quickest apple fritters with salted caramel & cold custard

Name: Quickest apple fritters with salted caramel & cold custard
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 100 g pancake mix; 35 g caster sugar; ½ tsp vanilla extract; ¼ tsp fine sea salt; 1 apple, finely diced; vegetable oil for frying (about 200g)

Dreamed up by Waitrose cook Alex Szrok when hankering for a sweet treat at home, this warm, indulgent autumn pud is made with store cupboard staples and whatever apples are in the fruit bowl. Ready in just 15 minutes, serve with a swirl of ready-made caramel sauce and custard for pure dessert heaven.

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Serves4
CourseDessert
Prepare10 mins
Cook5 mins
Total time15 mins

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100g pancake mix
35g caster sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp fine sea salt
1 apple, finely diced
vegetable oil for frying (about 200g)

To serve

50g caster sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
No.1 Madagascan Vanilla Fresh Custard, optional
No.1 Salted Caramel Dessert Sauce, optional

First, make the fritters. Mix pancake mix with 70ml water, sugar, vanilla and salt until lump-free. Stir in the diced apple. Heat a frying pan on medium heat with a generous glug of oil (enough so you can baste). Once hot (around 180°C is ideal), spoon large dollops into the hot oil, baste, then flip after around 1 minute 30 seconds to 2 minutes (so they’re looking golden and puffed). Cook for another 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds on the other side, basting with oil to ensure an even cook. Transfer to a plate lined with kitchen paper to absorb excess oil.
Combine sugar and cinnamon in a bowl large enough to hold the cooked fritters. When cool enough to handle but still warm, dust the fritters in cinnamon sugar and serve with cold custard and warmed caramel sauce for dipping on the side.

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