Pronto Pup {Copycat Recipe} (2024)

FAQs

What is the batter on a Pronto Pup? ›

Pronto Pup batter is made with pancake batter, whereas non-descript corn dogs use variations of cornbread batter. While both include cornmeal, the difference is in the sweetness: corn dogs have it; Pronto Pups don't.

Combine cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt, egg and sugar. Add milk until batter has a pancake type consistency (Too much milk, and batter wont stay on hot dogs, too little and your batter when fried will be cracked). Dry off hot dogs with paper towels, coat with flour, and skewer through the center of the corndog.

That's likely because Pronto Pup batter only uses a dash of sugar in comparison to the sweeter corn dog crusts. While there is cornmeal in the Pronto Pup batter, according to Minnesota franchise owner Gregg Karnis, there's also corn, wheat and rice flours, giving it a more grain-forward taste.

There's only a dash of sugar, unlike the sweeter corn dog crusts.

Pronto Pup is to the "C-D word" as Xerox is to copier and Kleenex is to tissue — but at its heart, it's a corn dog. And some claim it was the very first one in the country. Pronto Pups aren't native to Minnesota, but Minnesotans have wholeheartedly embraced them.

Pronto Pups are only $4.

Pronto Pup - About 332 calories due to the sweeter batter.

Korean corn dogs are hot dogs, cheese, rice cakes, or fish cakes fried in a batter on a stick and dressed with sugar, ketchup, mustard, and/or mayo. They are a sweet & savory treat that can be made in a variety of different ways!

Papa Pup on-a-stick. 10" flour-battered deep-fried hot dog.

We like to think that you can credit America's obsession with fried foods, in part, to brothers Neil & Carl Fletcher. Fletcher's Original Corny Dogs, the famous meal on a stick, was invented and debuted at the 1942 State Fair of Texas.

Where was the first corndog made? ›

Pronto Pup of Rockaway Beach, Oregon, claims to have invented the corn dog in 1939. Cozy Dog Drive-in, in Springfield, Illinois, claims to have been the first to serve corn dogs on sticks, on June 16, 1946.

A corn dog is a sausage (usually a hot dog) that has been skewered, coated in a cornmeal batter, and deep-fried.

Carl and Neil Fletcher started selling their corny dogs—deep-fried hot dogs dipped in corn-bread batter—at the Fair in 1942. It has not been proven if they are the inventor of this treat, but I do believe they were the first to call it a corny dog as opposed to a corn dog, as it's more commonly known.

The salty and savory flavor of the hot dog, the crunchy sweetness of the cornmeal coating, the comforting nostalgia of childhood memories — that's corn dog! When it comes to classic comfort food, nothing beats a good ol' fashioned corn dog.

First, we toast a Puka (hole) in the center of our freshly-baked buns. Next, we add your choice of our garlic lemon secret sauce in mild, spicy, hot or lava along with a selection of one of six original tropical relishes: mango, pineapple, papaya, coconut, banana or starfruit.

Remember -- this batter can be saved for a day or two so no need to use it all at once. If reusing batter from fridge take it out long enough for it to be room temperature. You might need to add a TBSP or two of water to loosen it back up to the right consistency.