Paula's Fried Butter Balls

If I'm going to cook like Paula Deen I figured what better way to start than with FRIED BUTTER!! Butter seems to be a trending ingredient in just about every recipe on her website, and something that I need to stock up on apparently.

The recipe is as follows: 1 egg, 1 cup flour, salt and pepper, 2 ounces of cream cheese, 2 sticks of butter, peanut oil for frying and seasoned bread crumbs. How ever no trip to the grocery store is ever complete without forgetting something and this time it was the seasoned bread crumbs. I improvised, altho I don't really know what seasoned bread crumbs taste like so I will season them to my tastes after they are done cooking.

To make the bread crumbs, I broke apart bread and spread it out in a dish and put it in the oven on low (my oven doesn't have a temperature gauge, it's a little old, so we just have carved notices in the knob) I let it sit in there until they felt completely dried out and then put them in my bullet and chopped them all up.

The first part of the recipe was to cream the butter and cream cheese and then make balls out of it with a melon baller. Either I'm just not a baller or butter does not agree with a melon baller. Maybe it was because it was still in a mixing bowl and getting warm. I put it in some tupperware and stuck in the freezer to firm it up a bit. Looks like this: (this is my first blog, so I dont know how to not make the pictures side ways)

Needless to say, it was still hard to melon ball butter even half frozen. But I kinda managed to get them round like and out by sticking a knife down the side and popping the butter out of the baller. After that it was back in the freezer until they were completely frozen.

Next was to roll them in the flour, then dip them in the beaten egg, and into the bread crumbs. It took 2 eggs to coat everything but that may just be because the flour was coming off. I don't think your floured butter balls can just wade around in the egg, it has to be a quick in and out or else the flour starts coming off and the egg doesn't want to stick. Then it's time to drop them into the bread crumbs and roll them around until they are completely coated. And back in the freezer to freeze again. Below is a picture of the butter balls, some already coated with bread crumbs.

By this time my kitchen was a wreck, I think it's because I don't have a swanky island like Paula's where you can put the dishes below the countertop and they just disappear. I need one of those, but that will have to wait since we don't have room in our mobile mansion for an island. I was pretty excited waiting for them to freeze so that I could fry them and try them, but it was already 9 o'clock and when my honey got home he said that fried butter balls was not a dinner. bumm. They are still in the freezer, but tonight when I get home, those things are going in the deep fryer! I'll let you know how they taste.