African doughnut hole or fried cake or doughnut drop or Amime Keke

African Doughnut hole, a quick fry cake batter beignet. Yes, It is literally fried cake because ingredients are basically the same as  cake ingredients. A delicious beignet introduced to African by European during colonization and now sells as street snacks.

Instead of baking the cake, we are frying it. Sure, it’s not the healthiest snack but it is certainly fun and tasty. Beside eating these once in a while shouldn’t harm your body figure.  Believe me I tried air frying them and it didn’t work! Of course, if you are gluten sensitive then you should try your favorite gluten free cake mix. Please note that the best milk for this recipe is evaporated milk or whole milk. You can of course use a lactose free milk also.

The fried beignets can be coated with powdered sugar or table sugar or even a mixture of sugar and cinnamon for fall flavor! I do prefer them plain unlike my middle child!

If the batter mixture is too thick, add milk a tablespoon at a time. Your batter should be able to drop easily into the frying oil.

Although every cooks’ style varies the main ingredients are always the same.

What you will need for this recipe is:

-Flour

– Evaporated milk

-Egg

-Butter

-Baking powder

-Sugar

-Salt

– Vanilla

– Lime zest

-Oil for deep frying