Oreillettes de Montpellier

Preparation: 10 mins

Ingredients
50 g flour
2 eggs
30g castor sugar
75g butter
1 sachet baking powder
1 sachet vanilla-scented sugar
Juice of 1 lemon
100g warm water
Icing sugar
Oil (for frying)

Preparation (10 mins Cooking time 30 mins)
Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and vanilla sugar.
Make a hole in the centre and add the eggs, the melted butter, the water and lemon juice. Mix first then knead lightly.
Roll out the pastry as fine as possible. Cut it into diamonds, circles and rectangles.
Heat the oil in a frying pan. Plunge the cut out shapes into the oil and leave them to fry gently.
Lift them out one by one, and leave them to drain on absorbent paper.
Sprinkle with icing sugar