Homemade Fried Flower Shaped Appetizer

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 100 g plain flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt, to taste
• 50 g butter, chilled
• 1/2 whole egg yolk, beaten
• 1 2/3 ounces water, cooled
• 1 cup fresh coconut oil, plus 2/3 a tablespoon coconut oil (for frying)
• 1 whole egg
• 50 g sugar
• 1 drop food coloring, pink
• 1 tablespoon coloured candy sprinkles

Recipe

• 1 for the dough: sift the flour. place the flour and salt in a large bowl. mix. rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. next add approximately 1/2 of the egg yolk and the water. mix well with your hands. try to work quickly.
• 2 wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for 10 -15 minutes.
• 3 now take the chilled dough and roll out into a large square that is about 1/8 inch thick, using a rolling pin. cut it into 12 round shapes (diameter 2 inches) using a pastry cutter or cookie cutter.
• 4 next take 6 of the rounds and, using a sharp knife, make straight little cuts in towards the center of the circle (don’t cut all the way through the circle – you are cutting about a half inch in towards the center, kind of like bicycle wheel spokes). then take each of the 6 cut circles and place one on top of each of the uncut dough rounds (so you have a solid round underneath, and a bicycle wheel cut round on top). you can brush a little water in the center of the plain round first, in order to help the two pieces stick together. if needed, you can also place a wooden round stick through the center of the spoke round and the bottom one, to make them stay together.
• 5 after that deep fry them in hot oil (over medium heat), until they are golden brown . remove them from the oil onto absorbent paper to drain for a minute or two. as it fries, the top round should puff up like flower petals.
• 6 for the meringue: place the egg and sugar in a bowl and whip the mixture using an electric hand mixer. after 5 minutes of whipping, add food coloring. continue to beat the mixture until stiff and standing in peaks.
• 7 after that take the cooled flower shaped pastries and get them ready to fill. next put the meringue in a pastry bag with a piping tip and pipe the filling into the center of the appetizer. next sprinkle some colored candy on top, if desired. i’ve done this in the photo above.
• 8 serve and enjoy.