DISH RESEARCH · Dish
Funnel cake
Also known as: funnel cake dough, Funnel cake with sugar, Funnel cake with sugar and fruit
American fairground batter streamed into hot oil and fried into a crisp lacy cake.
About Funnel cake
Funnel cake is an American carnival and fairground sweet made by streaming batter into hot oil in overlapping circles. This profile follows a baking-powder version lightly flavoured with cinnamon and finished with icing sugar.
The batter is mildly sweet and milky, with cinnamon adding warm fragrance. Frying gives it a deep toasted flavour, while the powdery sugar finish provides the strongest sweetness.
The cake forms an irregular golden web of intertwined crisp strands with small tender pockets inside. Its surface is craggy and dusted white, and it is eaten warm while still brittle at the edges.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Funnel cake
American Carnival Funnel Cake with Cinnamon Sugar.
- Vegetable oilDeep-frying medium
- MilkBatter liquid
- EggsBatter binding and richness
- All-purpose wheat flourFried batter structure
- Baking powderBatter leavening
- Granulated sugarBatter sweetness
- Ground cinnamonWarm spice
- Table saltSeasoning
- Icing sugarPowdered finishing sweetness
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Vegetable oil: . The source permits vegetable oil or shortening; this profile fixes vegetable oil, but its exact plant source and blend are not supplied.
- Milk:
- Eggs:
- All-purpose wheat flour:
- Baking powder: . The source does not identify a brand or complete leavening formula.
- Granulated sugar:
- Ground cinnamon:
- Table salt:
- Icing sugar: . The source's confectioners' sugar maps to the established icing-sugar route; its starch or anti-caking formula is not supplied.
Origins & food traditions
King Arthur Baking supplies the complete funnel-cake recipe selected here, combining milk, eggs, wheat flour, baking powder, sugar, cinnamon and salt before frying in the source's vegetable-oil-or-shortening choice; this profile fixes vegetable oil and retains the icing-sugar finish. The reference article independently identifies funnel cake as a Pennsylvania-associated American fair food made by pouring batter in a circular pattern into hot oil and commonly serving it with powdered sugar.
Countries
- United States
- United StatesCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- American Cuisine
- Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine
- American cuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.