Pillow soft New Orleans Beignets (princess and the frog)

First of all we are gonna start with making our sponge. We need to grab a jar, a bowl or whatever you prefer for this. You need to use lukewarm water in order to get it you can just microwave the water for abut 15-20 seconds or until you feel like its the right temperature.
You wanna add active dry yeast and mix until you see everything well disolved. No yeast lumps anywhere, cover with a damp paper and allow it to became bubbly for about 10 minutes in a place where it feels warm, could be outside by your window if it sunny or by the fireplace.

Crack one egg in a separate bowl and then pour it in the bowl you are gonna be mixing all the ingredients.
Pour the flour, milk, granulated sugar, condensed milk and soft butter. If its not so soft its fine because we are gonna knead the dough but if you can get it to be soft without using a microwave its an easier job for you and your stand mixer and add the sponge we made before.

you want to knead your dough in a stand mixer for about 15-18 minutes but if you don’t have one you can just knead for a couple more minutes.

allow the dough to rest in a slightly oiled bowl for about 2 hours in a warm place

In a slightly floured surface or slightly floured parchment paper (trust me do this one for better results) roll out your dough to be around 1cm / 0.40 inches thick trying to shape it into a square. Now sprinkle some flour on top of this super pillowy dough and cut into as many squares as you’d like, i recommend you doing 9 because they’re gonna grow so much when frying. Another key point if its too sticky and it gets stuck on your knife, using a couple of drops, oil the blade of the knife really carefully with the help of a paper.

Fry when you see the oil being bubbly, it should not be too hot remember, we don’t want to eat raw dough, and we don’t want to burn our beignets. Don’t fry too many at the same time or the oil temperature will drop. As a result you will see them getting all puffy! Drain them on some paper towels.And keep repeating the process

You can: coat them on icing sugar and then a drizzle of honey or you can add honey and then the icing sugar. We did the first option because it makes more sense to us but you can chose whatever feels best for you