I don't know about you, but I love cooking and baking sweets for the holidays! So, I decided to go out on a limb and try something I have never made before, but see quite often in cooking competitions like "Chopped" on The Food Network....Beignets. It's a French term for fried doughnuts. Only, not the doughnuts we are used to getting at the bakery here in the US, but a slightly less rich and less sweet fried pastry. Now, typically these beignets are simply dredged in plain old powdered sugar after being deep fried, but again, I decided to try something a little different with my toppings. Here's what I did: Topping #1 -- Sweet Chai (favorite!) 1 cup powdered sugar 2 tea bags Vanilla Chai tea, opened (I got this idea for the tea from my friend Bre Whitley - from a cookie recipe she sent me last year!) Topping #2 -- Orange Cinnamon 1 cup granulated sugar 1 ½ tsp orange zest ½ tsp cinnamon Topping #3 -- Chocolate Mint 1 cup hot chocolate mix 2 peppermint candy canes, ground to a fine powder So -- now that you know how I gave my beignets flavor, this is how you make the dough. This makes an AWFUL lot, so if you can, I would recommend halving the recipe. They are not sweet at all (if you try them plain) so if you prefer sweeter, I'd add a little more sugar (maybe another ½ cup if making the full recipe). Alternately, if you like the orange zest topping, I would even suggest adding the orange zest to the dough (along with the flour) and then just using cinnamon and sugar to ...
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