Lori N.
Yelp
It's almost summer and that means carnivals, county fairs, and amusement parks! Uh...no. Canceled this year, thanks to COVID-19. But, no worries, Braud's comes to the rescue. Braud's is a kiosk in Town Square that serves up lots of varieties of funnel cakes and just re-opened last week after the mandatory COVID closing.
The inner little girl in me LOVES carnival and county fair foods of all kinds...cotton candy, corn dogs, and deep-fried anything. I've been making up for lost time because I was "deprived" of indulging as a kid. I usually have two funnel cakes at every carnival or county fair. I make it my first stop when I enter and I always get another when I leave. Gotta get my funnel cake fix in. Who knows when the world may end, right?! Needless to say, I've had more than my share and am a pretty good judge of these yummy deep-fried spirals.
These were good here. They were fried well without any burnt overdone edges, which can be common when you have 18-year olds doing all the deep frying at local fairs and carnivals. The owner worked here on both my visits and he does a great job with frying.
There's just one thing that didn't make them perfect for me though. On both visits, the spirals towards the center of the funnel cake clumped together, giving it a dense and almost cake-like texture. This amounted to only about 20 percent of the cake, but I did toss out the 20% on both visits. If the center was just as light and airy as the outer part, these would've been perfect funnel cakes.
I really liked that they made all their funnel cakes to-order, and weren't pre-made in advance, which I've seen done at amusement parks. You can choose to add various flavors of ice cream and fruit toppings.
I'd easily come back here again to satisfy my summer cravings for funnel cakes! The best news is you can get these funnel cakes here all year round!