Deep-Fried Cookies

Recipe: A Quick and Indulgent Dessert at Home

You can trust Americans to come up with an ‘extra’ layer on an already finished or loaded product, like kitchen-sink cookies, doughnut sandwiches, deep-fried butter, and now deep-fried cookies. These kinds of crazy foods are associated with American fairgrounds, where anything from pickles to biscuits is dipped in batter and deep-fried. So here’s a desi version of it, using the homegrown Sunfeast Dark Fantasy Vanilla Fills Cookies. What you get is a thin, crisp shell around a soft, melted vanilla centre. This easily ranks among the quickest dessert recipes out there, while still being sweet and indulgent. You get a variety of contrasting textures, too, that make for a fun mouthful of this sweet treat, with the thin, crunchy, and mildly sweet batter shell giving way to a warm cookie with its molten centre turning gooey, and the deep-frying that is oh-so-sweet. Because Sunfeast Dark Fantasy Vanilla Fills Cookies already have a filling, they don’t need any extra preparation. All you need to do is make sure the cookies are chilled before you start the process. Getting the batter consistency right is also important for the best-tasting batch of deep-fried cookies, as a thicker coating will ick you out and taste doughy and not palatable. It uses a simple mix of flour, sugar, baking powder, milk, and egg to coat the filled cookies in a light, slightly sweet shell that crisps up quickly in hot oil without needing a long fry time.