Funnel cake Fail!

I had to run through my trusty friend google to make sure funnel cake wasn't one word instead of 2.  Now that the dilemma is out of the way I shall blog my fail.  Cam got a deep fryer for Christmas, (& a waffle maker too, hence Martha Stewart), since he used this contraption for the first time he's mentioned making a funnel cake.  The man is NEVER SATISFIED!  His mentioning of said cake became more frequently once he used his waffle maker, so last night we attempted the carnival goodness.  We used pancake batter, because lets face it, the only difference is the granulated sugar you add.  So I made Cam the batter & had him start heating the oil and we put the batter in a little squeeze bottle.  Once the oil was ready we dropped the batter in there only to discover, it didn't stay together in a string fashion.  The batter would break apart into little clumps & so we had  bubble cake!  I didn't take pictures, it was a disgrace.  Cam did still eat it though.  So, we've come to 2 different conclusions, we had too much oil or the oil was too hot.  However, I think there's a 3rd uh-oh and Cam doesn't want to believe it, there's too much air in the squeeze tube.  We are going to go at this funnel cake experience again the next time I go to the grocery store.  For now he'll have to resist the urge, and settle for making french fries, & whatever else he can in that deep fryer.