# BIG beignets like in "The Princess and the Frog"

This is an easy homemade version of the famous New Orleans beignets, inspired by the ones found at Café du Monde.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 400 g flour
- 2 beaten eggs
- 15 cl whole milk (or vegetable milk)
- 2 cuil. à soupe sugar
- 1 cuil. à café level teaspoon of salt
- 11 g baker's yeast
- 5 cl milk for yeast
- 80 g cold butter, cut into pieces
- à volonté Icing sugar

## Instructions

1. Put all the ingredients in your drummer's tank equipped with a kneading hook, or do it by hand.
2. Make a nice dough.
3. Flour your work plan.
4. Take your dough lightly, lower it and fold it to give it a little bit of strength.
5. Put the dough in a lightly greased bowl and let it grow under cover for 1 hour.
6. Degas the dough.
7. Flatten the dough.
8. Lower it with a pastry roll.
9. Cut the dough gently with a rule.
10. Fry the dough in a bath of oil at one hundred and seventy degrees until golden brown.
11. Place the golden brown beignets on paper towels.
12. Sprinkle with a little bit of sugar.

## Equipment

- drummer's tank (stand mixer) equipped with a kneading hook
- bowl
- pastry roll
- rule
- bath of oil
- paper towels

## Tips

- Butter makes everything better.
- Water well without projecting oil on yourself, because oil at this temperature, it tingles.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@gastronogeekofficiel/video/7492070845712583958?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7590767474443011606
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/c4911e21-2f6f-4b51-a316-a7112a187309
- Extracted: 2026-01-02

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