Posted on 09/05/2006 9:55:11 AM PDT by Millee
There are fried Twinkies and even fried candy bars.
Now, vendor Abel Gonzales Jr. has come up with a new artery-clogging concoction for the State Fair of Texas. It's Fried Coke.
Gonzales deep-fries Coca-Cola flavored batter. He then drizzles Coke fountain syrup on it. The Fried Coke is topped with whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry. Gonzales said the Fried Coke came about just from thinking aloud.
Gonzales' diet-buster wins the creativity honor at Big Tex Choice Awards.
Judges for the second annual Big Tex Choice Awards Contest chose Shirley London's Fried Praline Perfection as the tastiest fried delicacy.
The two won out among 26 entries such as fried macaroni and cheese and a deep-fried cosmopolitan.
London said she came up with the fried pralines idea after buying pralines at the fair last year. She plans to sell the pralines alongside fried marshmallows.
The fair begins Sept. 29.
Texas' food on a stick obsession ping.
Sounds like it needs more bacon but that's probably just me.
> Make it Deep Fried Diet Coke...
I was thinking more like a Deep Fried Rum & Coke. Yum!
I can't say I would have done any differently. :)
It sounds OBSCENELY good!
Of course, everything sounds good to me now. I feel like Scarlett O'Hara in that scene where she's on her honeymoon with Rhett and eating everything in sight.
It needs more cowbell...deep fried!
Or deep fried pina coladas for the ladies...
LOL! Welcome home!
I've had it before...little gas station up in the Smokies along I-40 has it. Mmm mmm!
**Freeper Kitchen Ping***
uh... mmmm... yummy?
Sounds like "Coronary On A Stick" to me! :)
Not having been to the Fair this year, or anywhere where this is served, I tried to imagine what it would taste like.
To begin with, what is "coke-flavored batter"? How would something made with flour and eggs taste like a thin liquid cola drink?
It might "suggest" the taste of Coca-Cola, but I doubt it tastes just like it!
OTOH, I love the idea of the coke syrup on top. All in all, I believe "Deep-Fried Dr. Pepper" would be a much, much tastier snack - all that plum/cherry flavor. Cola is just, well, cola.
That's entirely do-able. I use beer batter for practically everything I fry. Then again, I don't fry much anymore. But, when I do ... there is a honey beer that's quite exceptional for batter-making.
Haven't tasted it by itself and won't, so can't vouch for its drinking quality.
TGI Fridays has a new appetizer - deep fried mac and cheese. I love mac and cheese and I love fried food but I don't know about this combination....
Fried dill pickles dipped in ranch dressing. yummmmm
Mmmm - sounds like it would taste like the wonderful brown burnt part of the cheese on cafeteria mac & cheese, but lots of it!
Yesssss, love 'em.
OK - I just saw a demo of the recipe for the deep-fried Coca-Cola on our local morning news. (Let me say I still think Fried Dr. Pepper would be much better.)
They started with funnel cake mix from the grocery store. They used the one you've probably seen with the little Pennsylvania Dutch motif on the logo - don't know the brand and probably doesn't matter.
You make up the funnel cake mix per the instructions, except that you use regular Coca-Cola in place of all the water.
Then you heat your oil or crisco for deep-frying and you make funnel cakes like normal, using a funnel to swirl the batter into the grease, around in a spiral, then back and forth to make the sort of latticework pattern.
Instead of using Coke fountain syrup, they made the syrup themselves. To make the syrup, you use the rest of the 2-liter bottle of Coke and heat it in a pot on the stove to reduce it, like making a wine reduction (boil it down to where it's syrupy; not too high heat, though, so it won't crystallize or harden).
You pour hot syrup over each hot funnel cake right out of the fryer, then sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon, also coconut if desired.
They didn't add whipped cream or a cherry like the contest winner, but I would. Unless it were Dr. Pepper, because you wouldn't need the cherry, since it would taste like something already.
I love good kosher dill pickles but deep fried? I don't know about that.... (And I love Ranch Dressing so much I could practically drink it straight from the bottle.)
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