ny style zeppole?

[Burntroof ofmouth]

I live on long island new york and work in nyc. I cant seem to find a recipe for fried zeppoles that the pizzarias and carnavils and fairs sell, here in new york they all taste the same butt wondering if anyone came across any good info

[Alfredo]

Ah, zeppole - the ultimate street food indulgence! Fried dough dusted with sugar - Italian health food, circa 1955. I grew up around the Arthur Avenue "Little Italy" in the Bronx, and just thinking of them brings me right back.

I don't have a specific recipe - I sometime do a home version using pizza dough - but a Google search for zeppole turned up 130,000 hits zeppole - Google Search

[Burntroof ofmouth]

Yeah i know. ;{ thats the prob, 13,000, and so many were differnt, thought i could cheat, and get some help , without testing.

[jjerrier]

I just saw a recipe for zeppole on Everyday Italian about "street food". Haven't made it yet, but looks super easy:

- 1 stick room temp butter
- 1 cup water
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 4 eggs
- pinch salt

Melt butter in pan on stove, add cup of water, sugar, and pinch of salt and stir to combine

Remove from heat and stir in 1 cup flour til combined

Return to heat and stir to cook off "floury" taste

After a minute or so, remove from heat and transfer to a bowl

Add 1 egg at a time and blend into dough with hand held mixer (add egg, mix, add egg, mix, add egg, mix, add egg, mix)

Use ice cream scooper to drop dough into 375 degree oil

Drop finished zeppole from fryer into vanilla cinnamon sugar (1 cup sugar, 2 tbsp cinnamon, seeds from 1 vanilla bean - stir to combine)

Eat