Oven-Baked Beignets

Name: Oven-Baked Beignets
Ingredients: 1/4 warm water (105° to 115°); 1 quick-rising active dry yeast; 1/4 granulated sugar; 3 all-purpose flour; 1.5 baking powder; 1/2 baking soda; 1/2 salt; 4 cold butter or margarine; 3/4 low-fat buttermilk; 1 egg; 1/4 confectioners' sugar; 1/3 granulated sugar; 2 instant espresso powder; 1 instant espresso powder; 1 cornstarch; 1 cornstarch; 2 whole milk; 1.5 unsweetened chocolate

Oven-Baked Beignets was pinched from <a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefinder/oven-baked-beignets-recipe?src=soc_fcbk" target="_blank">www.goodhousekeeping.com.</a>

"Beignets — French for "fritters" — first appeared in our pages in 1969, but the puffed, powdered donut has been a New Orleans breakfast basic since the 1800s. Although the custom in the Crescent City is deep-frying, we call for baking, which saves time and calories. The easy espresso-chocolate dipping sauce gives the pillow-shaped pastries a caffeinated, Creole kick...."

INGREDIENTS

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1/4 warm water (105° to 115°)

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1 quick-rising active dry yeast

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1/4 granulated sugar

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3 all-purpose flour

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1.5 baking powder

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1/2 baking soda

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1/2 salt

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4 cold butter or margarine

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3/4 low-fat buttermilk

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1 egg

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1/4 confectioners' sugar

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1/3 granulated sugar

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2 instant espresso powder

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1 instant espresso powder

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1 cornstarch

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1 cornstarch

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2 whole milk

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1.5 unsweetened chocolate

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