I need a recipe for ELEPHANT EARS or FUNNEL CAKE batter PLEASE!! - Big Big Forums

Tigerseye0420 · 10-01-2001, 09:23 PM

please help i LOVE these they are my favorite...both are excellent if anyone has a recipe for this or knwos a site that has the recipes PLEASE post them here! Thank you SOOOO much!

WVCindy · 10-01-2001, 11:23 PM

This is the recipe we use at my sons football games:
2 cups self rising flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups of milk
I hope you like this....we make alot of money off of them.

gemeralderin · 10-01-2001, 11:32 PM

I went and found my funnel cake recipe and found that it almost exactly matches cindy's, so I won't waste time typing it again, but what are elephant ears?

Tigerseye0420 · 10-01-2001, 11:52 PM

elephant ears are almost the same as funnel cake except instead of it being all funny looking like funnel cake it is one big round "cake" They are soooo good!

scruffylilthing · 10-02-2001, 01:27 AM

i used to eat these all the time aren't they just yest doughnuts flattened out with cinnamon on top.

1 1/2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons white sugar
3/8 cup shortening
2 tablespoons active dry yeast
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 quart oil for frying
3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
6 tablespoons white sugar

Directions
1 In small saucepan over medium heat, combine milk, salt, 2 tablespoons sugar and shortening. Heat until shortening melts and sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and let cool to lukewarm, 110 degrees F (43 degrees C). Sprinkle in yeast and let sit until foamy.
2 Transfer mixture to large bowl, and stir in flour to make a dough. Knead until smooth, cover and let rise 30 minutes.
3 In a large heavy skillet or deep fryer, heat 1 inch of oil to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
4 Roll out 1 to 2 inch balls of dough into thin sheets. Fry sheets 1 to 2 minutes on a side, until puffed and golden. Drain on paper towels.
5 Combine cinnamon and 6 tablespoons sugar. Sprinkle over warm pastries. Serve

got this off of all recipes.com hope this helps sounds right to me

momof3js · 10-02-2001, 11:46 PM

Suuuuuuper Easy Funnel Cakes

1C flour 1/4t salt
1t baking powder 1/2t cinnamon

Pur vegetable oil in skillet to a depth of 1 inch. Heat to 360 degrees over medium high heat. In small bowl, combine 1 egg with 3/4C milk. Add dry ingredient and beat with fork til smooth. Hold finger under funnel opening and pour 1/4C batter in funnel. Allow batter to pour from funnel into hot oil- moving funnel in a circle to form a spiral shape. Fry 1 minute, turn, and continue to fry til golden. Remove to paper towel and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

YUMMM!

worldofdan · 10-02-2001, 11:52 PM

I was just on another site and I was reading this recipe when I clicked back to big big and saw your request, so here you go. I have not tried this, but,

EASY FUNNEL CAKES:

SUPPLIES:

cooking oil
kitchen funnel
3 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
2 cup whole milk
3 2/3 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder

DIRECTIONS:

pour 2 inches of oil into large pan
heat on Medium or Medium-High

Combine eggs and sugar
Slowly add milk and beat mixture
add all dry ingredients
beat untill smooth

Hold finger over opening of funnel and pour mixture into it (hint...only put enough batter for one cake at a time so you can lay funnel down once batter is in oil)

hold funnel above oil and carefully remove finger..move funnel around creating design

let cook untill golden brown on one side then flip and cook same on other side

remove from oil and drain on paper towel

top with powdered sugar or anything else youd like.

FOR ELEPHANT EARS...

I was at my in-laws a couple of weeks ago and we wanted these so bad so we took frozen bread dough, (frozen dinner rolls dough) we unthawed the dough in the microwave (wrapped it in saran wrap that had been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray), rolled them out and we put them in heated vegetable oil and fried them. Then we sprinkled them with cinnomon and sugar. Wha La, there was elephant ears.