Easy Homemade Apple Fritters: the recipe for some delicious and fragrant sweets

Easy homemade apple fritters are delicious and fragrant sweets. Sweet and juicy, the apples are first cut into slices, then rolled into a creamy batter and finally fried in hot oil. The result will be irresistible: they're fragrant fritters with a soft heart, rolled in a mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon powder, to make them even more fragrant. So let’s find out how to make easy homemade apple fritters by following our recipe step by step and enjoy them as a snack or at the end of a meal together with a custard or a dollop of whipped cream.

How to make Easy Homemade Apple Fritters

Prepare the batter; pour the milk into a bowl, add the egg yolks (1) and mix with a whisk.

Add the type 00 flour, powdered yeast for cakes and a pinch of salt, passing them through a sieve (2), and mix until you get a thick batter.

Whisk the egg whites until stiff and gently add them to the batter (3); put in the refrigerator and let it rest for a few hours.

Peel the apples, cut them into thick slices and, with the help of a paring knife, remove the core (4). Transfer the slices to a bowl with cold water, acidulated with lemon juice.

Heat the extra virgin olive oil and bring it to a temperature of 170 degrees C. Dip the apple slices in the batter and then dip them in boiling extra virgin olive oil (5); when they are golden brown, turn them and continue cooking on the other side as well.

Drain the apples and let them dry on a sheet of absorbent kitchen paper. Dip the apple fritters while still hot in a mixture of brown sugar, cinnamon powder and vanilla (6).

Transfer the apple fritters to a serving dish and serve hot (7).

How to store Easy Homemade Apple Fritters

To fully enjoy its fragrance and crunchiness, we suggest to eat apple fritters still hot and freshly made: cooling down, they would lose their characteristic consistency. If there are some apple fritters left, keep them in the refrigerator for a maximum of 1 day and, before enjoying them, pass them for a few minutes under the oven grill.