Question: what is the difference between funnel cake and fried dough?
Answer: It's simply fried dough. You can use bread dough or pizza dough, stretch it into a circle, drop it in hot oil and voila! Funnel cake, on the other hand, isn't dough at all. ... One feels that fried dough is more filling while the other argues that the cake-like texture of funnel cake is more light and crispy.