Pumpkin Pie Fritters

Instead of making traditional doughnuts or Polish paczki I decided to fiddle around in the kitchen and made these tasty pumpkin pie fritters.  They are delicious just like pumpkin pie without the crust and in less time (yes it is possible).  They are also FRIED which means LOVED in my household.  As long as something is fried I can be certain that it will be eaten by my husband, he is simple like that, well at least when it comes to fried foods.

You will need: 15oz pure pumpkin can, 1/2c flour, 1/4 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 2tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ginger, 1/4 tsp nutmeg, 1/8 tsp cloves, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp vanilla, vegetable or canola oil for frying.  You can subsitute cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves with 1tsp pumpkin pie spice mix.

Sift the spices, baking powder and spices together.

Break 2 eggs into a bowl… you can’t make a cake without breaking some eggs.

Mix, mix, mix.

Add vanilla and mix some more.

Add the can of Pure Pumpkin whisk until combined.

To the dry ingredience add sugar.

and salt.

Mix the dry stuff with the wet stuff, meaning flour stuff with pumpkin stuff…. got it?

Swirl it around a bit to combine it all.  At this moment you will have to fight your urge to eat the batter.  Make sure not to allow any children to taste it or else you will have a hard time finishing this “project”.

Now step back and admire the beauty of greese…. well I mean oil…. heart healthy oil.

Drop tablespoon of mixture into med/hot oil.  Meaning if it is smoking it may be too hot and will burn your fritters.  If you are not sure how fast it will brown try with an itsy bitsy fritter and see how he does.

Make sure to fry only 4-5 fritters at a time, they fry quickly don’t worry you will be eating soon.

When you see them  brown on the outside in about 8-10 seconds flip them on the other side.

Using slotted spoon remove fritters from hot oil.

Place on paper towels to drain.  Napkins will do the trick and if all is lost toilet paper will work also.

Place on a plate and sprinkle with sugar.  Powder sugar would be better but I was out of it.  I actually did not taste the sugar before sprinkling the fritters just to find out it was not sugar at all.  “Kathy these are really salty”…. “What?  Why?  Did that 1/2 tsp really make that much of a difference?” … “No I think you sprinkled them with salt”….. “oh”…

Serve warm with Ice Cream, Whipped Cream or by themselves.