Sopapillas, I remember them as a kid but I don’t think I’ve had one since. I remember them to be awesome non the less. Come to find out its basically deep frying a tortilla. Since shortening is not so healthy for you (as if deep frying is) I had to search a little while to find a recipe for sopapillas that did not require it. I eventually found it deep in the comments of an allrecipes.com recipe. It was to remove the shortening and replace the water with milk. I went ahead and used coconut milk and it was perfect. They came out with just the right sponginess. I ended up using my pasta machine to roll premeasured dough balls out to a specific thickness. Experimenting with thicknesses I ended up rolling them at a six then a five and keeping them about the size of the palm of my hand. They fry super fast too, mine were like four seconds on each side. Top ‘em off with some honey (God’s candy) and your good to go. The recipe says to cool the dough in the fridge for an hour. I fried some right away and cooled the rest overnight. They both came out great.
