Deep Fried Apple Rings

I have been dying to make these for a few weeks now, and finally got around to it!  I served them with a pork cutlet and some mashed potatoes, but will definitely be re-purposing them for a dessert treat and another dinner here on the blog!   They were beyond easy to make, and were the only part of dinner that did not make it into the leftovers bowl!

Deep Fried Apple Rings 
Yields 4 servings

Ingredients 
3 Gala apples, cleaned and peeled
1 cup complete pancake mix
3/4 cup warm water
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp all spice
1/4 tsp ground cloves
Oil for deep frying


To Prepare the Apple Rings 
1. Cut your apples into rounds, straight through the stem and core, which we will remove in the next step!
2. Once you have cut all three apples into rounds, cut the cores out.  I found it was easiest to do this by taking a 1 inch round cookie cutter and putting it through the core area.  It only took a minute to get through all of them!
3. Start heating your oil over high heat.
4. Mix the pancake batter, water, and spices together.
5. Dip a few apple rings in the batter until well coated, pick them up with a fork through the middle, let the excess batter drop off, and put in the oil.
6. Brown on one side and then flip and cook until brown on the other.
7. Pull them out of the oil once browned on both sides and place in a bowl or on a plate.  
8. Repeat steps 5 through 7 until all of your apples are cooked.
9. I sprinkled with a little more cinnamon before serving!