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Dinner · 25 min · 4 as a snack

Loukoumades

Honey puffs without a fryer: small batter cakes, honey while hot, cinnamon. They should soak, not sit dry. Don't make pancakes.

The sheet · 4 as a snack · 25 min

easy

Why tonight. Honey puffs without a fryer: small batter cakes, honey while hot, cinnamon. They should soak, not sit dry. Don't make pancakes.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • flour
  • yogurt
  • honey
  • cinnamon
  • baking powder

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: butter.

Method

  1. The batter is loose, closer to a thick pour than a dough. Stiff batter gives you heavy balls.
  2. Wet the spoon between each one so the batter slides off cleanly.
  3. Oil at 175C. Too hot and they brown before the middle sets; too cool and they drink oil.
  4. Honey poured over the moment they come out, while they are hot enough to absorb it. Cinnamon last.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

flour
Thickener and structure. Raw flour tastes like paste, so it wants a minute of cooking in fat before liquid arrives — that minute is the difference between a sauce and a lumpy disappointment.
yogurt
Acid and creaminess together, which is why it works as a sauce with no cooking at all.
honey
Sweetness with a floral edge and enough body to change the texture of what it is in.
cinnamon
Warm and sweet-smelling without being sweet, which is why it works in a stew as readily as in a pastry.
baking powder
Lift, on a clock. It starts working the moment it is wet and again in the oven, so a batter that sits on the counter has already spent half of it.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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