Make Your Own Funnel Cakes: Frugal Recipe for Large Families

Our family enjoys going to our town’s fair each year, but being a one income, large family with 6 kids, we rarely let everyone indulge in the food that they sell.  If we did, we could easily spend A LOT of money in one evening.  Instead, we figured out how to make funnel cakes at home.  Since we’ve done that, I can’t even imagine paying $4 or more for a funnel cake, just to eat it standing on a street near rides.  They are so easy and super cheap to make!!  We joked about taking our funnel cake mix and portable burners down to the fair with us and making them by the car.  I don’t think we’ll really go to all that trouble, we DO make a point to make some near the festival time.

Here’s the recipe we use.  Keep in mind that this recipe is for a large family.  It made about 10 funnel cakes using 1/2 cup for each one.  Please don’t pay attention to the weight loss tab at the top of my page, lol….um…yeah, this doesn’t fall into that category!  🙂

Funnel Cakes

3 Eggs
2 1/4 Milk
1/3 c. Brown Sugar
3 c. Flour
2 1/4 t. Baking Powder
1/2 t. Salt

Powdered Sugar to top with

Oil for Deep Frying

Combine eggs, milk, brown sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. Mix until smooth.  Heat oil to 375 degrees.  Swirl 1/2 cup of batter at a time into the hot oil with a funnel or measuring cup.  Fry for 2 minutes on each side.  Drain and sprinkle with powdered sugar.