Buñuelos (thin fried fritter like dessert)

Serves 8 persons

• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon cold butter
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 pinches of baking powder
• 5 – 6 tbl hot water
• 1 cup of cooking oil
• 1/2 cup sugar for dredging

1. Sift the flour with the salt and baking powder into a bowl.
2. Add butter and incorporate it into the flour using your fingers as in a pie crust then add the water little by little until it forms into a mass that can be rolled. (the texture of soft cookie dough or an ear lobe)
3. Take golf ball size pieces and with a rolling pin form circles the thickness of a thin tortilla that you can see your hand through.
4. Heat the oil in a frying pan and deep fry the buñuelos until golden.
5. Hold each buñuelo above the pan to drain a little after cooking and while still hot dredge each one in regular white sugar
6. Serve and enjoy.