Huey’s Southern Café
Beignets

Bite into a beignet (ben – YAY) and you’ll get much more than a face full of powdered sugar. These sweet, little dough pillows are lightly fried clouds of heaven found right here in Savannah. At Huey’s Southern Café on River Street, an order consists of 3 beignets, served hot with a warm southern pecan praline dipping sauce made from brown sugar, creamy butter, real vanilla and laced with tiny pieces of crunchy, chopped pecans. “We make the dough here fresh daily,” says Ginger Sommers, assistant manager. “They are cut into rectangles, deep fried, and sprinkled with lots of powdered sugar. In season, we probably go through at least 50 lbs of powdered sugar each week…We sell so many of them on the weekends that we have someone in the kitchen solely dedicated to making beignets 6 hours each day.”

Huey’s Southern Café, 115 East River Street, 912.234.7385

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