How to make the best french beignets

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It's time for episode 7 of my winter series, this week I'm making beignets for shrove Tuesday next week.
Shrove Tuesday is known as pancake day in a few countries, and although some people do also eat pancakes on the day in France, it is more traditional to eat sugar coated fried foods like donuts, merveilles or beignets.
My grandmother always cooked beignets and I absolutely love them.
If you've never had them before I would say they're probably most similar to the texture of a cruller but the size of a donut hole, the outside is crispy and the inside incredibly airy and moist.
They're technically easy to make although they do take some time, so it's a good weekend bake. The dough is a choux pastry, if it's your first time making it, it's a great way to learn this culinary basic which you can reuse for a lot of baking recipes such as profiteroles, eclairs and cheese puffs.
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Ingredients: (approx 18 beignets)
125mL water
40g salted butter
63g plain flour
2 eggs, medium
Vanilla sugar
1L vegetable oil

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hahah thanks I'm obsessed! It was a Christmas present and I almost cried when I opened it, didn't even know they had a fruit pattern

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@@spoonfuloffelicityit's so cute! My mum and I collect them and it's getting a bit out of hand 😅

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Easily done haha!