Baking fritters is something very typical for this season. And while I have still not much love for celebrating carnival, I like to bake fritters once in a while. These apple fritters were inspired by some left over miniature apples, we used as decoaration for our christmas. After christmas I kept this cute little apples in my open kitchen shelf for because they were to beautiful to eat. But now the started to shrivel and so apple fritter were my new idea for them.
When baking apple fritters you can find two kinds of recipes in Germany: Some are baked with a yeasted dough only, while others use a additional layer of Pâte à Choux to keep the apple piceses fixed in the fritters. I opted for the second variant and choose my favourite Pâte à Choux recipe and a standard yeast dough. From there it was only a short way to a delicious afternoon treat…
The Ausgezogne is a south german deep fried cake which is similar to a doughnut but instead of a hole there is a very thin dough layer in the middle. Sometime this cake is called Knieküchlein (literally knee cake), too as the thin dough layer can be archived by stretching the dough over the knee. But it can be stretched by hand, too, and is very similar to forming pizza dough.
I’m always relieved when the time of carnival lays behind us, as I told before. Sarah of 
I like carnival only in very small doses. Because I am working in one of the strongholds of carnival in Rhineland and because I am living in a small town that is as “jeck” as cologne its impossible for me to avoid carnival and all the drunken people. Drunkard are the most annoying part of carnival for me. But carnival has a delicious side, too. There are all the baked goodies you can get at this time of the year. I like Berliner, a kind of jelly filled donut, very much. According to