Just finished making some beignets in honor of Mardi Gras also known as Fat Tuesday! Serve with espresso chocolate sauce and a cup of coffee or café au lait.
For a spectacular beignet recipe, check out this Serious Eats video recipe:
Espresso Chocolate Sauce recipe: In a small saucepan, heat 1/4 cup cream (I used low fat milk cause that’s all we had), 1/4 cup espresso or strong coffee (chicory coffee would be perfect), and 1/8 cup evaporate cane juice (or granulated sugar). Whisk and bring to a boil. Place 4 oz. good quality chopped semisweet chocolate or chips in a heat safe bowl. Pour the milk-coffee mixture on top of the chocolate and mix until smooth. Serve with the beignets or some fruit too!
My dad is also making some Filipino Fried Chicken, which is my grandmother Inang’s (my Mom’s mother) recipe, can’t wait!
What are you up to today?
To all my readers,
Happy Fat Tuesday!
&
“Laissez les bons temps rouler!”
(“Let the good times roll!”)
Now I gotta go exercise after eating a couple of beignets!
Also, I can’t forget…
Happy Darwin Day and Happy President Lincoln day too!
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Don’t these look TERRIFIC!!! Happy Fat Tuesday too! 🙂
Thank you Mickeydownunder! They weren’t too sweet even with the chocolate sauce 🙂
Great minds think alike…I just made some too 😀
Yay! Hooray for beignets!
Love everything with a little chocolate sauce. Thanks for the link. Happy Mardi Gras! ~FTW
Your welcome! Looking forward to reading more from your blog.
Do you know Chef Philip (from the video)? I’ve been to meetings at his event center–adorable and fun guy. Loved seeing him teach beignet lessons:-) Yours turned out mighty fine! Yum yum yum.
Wow amazing that you got beignet lessons from Chef Philip! I’ve never met him, though I’m glad that he made that video 🙂
lol–didn’t mean to imply he taught ME beignet lessons. I’ve seen him do cooking demos, but forgetting exactly what for–not beignets, though. What I did mean was that it was fun to read your post and see your chosen video. Well done per usual:-)
It looks fabulous! Thanks for sharing the video!
Thank you 😀 Learned about the basting method for frying through this video–was really helpful in making the beignets puff up and brown evenly.
Yum!!
Definitely was! 🙂
I totally know where to come if I want to cook anything. Thanks for the awesome goodies!
Thank you for the kind words! I have more books to read on my list from reading your blog 🙂
They look great Samantha. I also am a big fan of coffee and any little treat to go with it is always good too.
Thanks for sharing.
Chef Randall
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Thanks. I used to be a big coffee drinker when I was in college, but now I get jittery so I drink decaf when I want some coffee. Nothing like a good cup of coffee and a sweet treat 🙂
🙂
By the looks of your beignets, I would have a hard time stopping from eating them all!
I did sample quite a bit of them. Good thing I made them while visiting my family so I could share them!