March 08, 2011

Fastnacht Day

Today goes by a few different names:  Fastnacht Day, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, and Pączki Day.  In honor of it being Fastnacht Day, I made traditional fastnachts.  Sadly, they don't taste anything like a doughnut or even a potato doughnut... they taste like funnel cake, and pretty bad funnel cake at that.  You can find the recipe here, if you're curious about it.


Even if they didn't turn out quite how I had planned, it was still quite a bit of fun making them.  I was even able to get my brother involved and had him hovering over the deep fryer, vigilantly monitoring the frying process.


To accompany the fastnachts, I whipped up a couple modern day pastries with some yarn.  The pattern for these doughnuts can be found over at lionbrand.com.