Churros and Dipping Sauce

It’s so easy to whip up some churro dough and make homemade cinnamon and sugar churros . The crispy outside and chewy inside are perfect for creamy melty dipping chocolate and an addicting, delicious any time snack. 

 

There is nothing in this world better than fried dough. Or really…fried anything.

All the greats come fried – chicken, potatoes, Oreos…you get me. The fried dough that formulates a churro is SO good and provides the perfect platform to roll in sugar or dip in chocolate (or both!).

Remember that when you make this dough it needs to be piped into fried as soon as its cool enough to handle. Dough that sits can break apart. What are Churros Made From? Traditionally Mexican churros are made with a dough called Choux, which has flour, sugar, and egg. In this quick and easy recipe, there is no egg.  I like the simplicity of this  eggless dough recipe with nearly the same outcome and these churros are totally delicious. 

Churros with Chocolate Sauce

This recipe makes 10 churros, which is enough to be 2 servings, but if you eat them like we do, I would say its a personal size churro recipe. 

✔ Fried ✔ Crispy ✔ Yummy

• 1 cup water
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• vegetable oil to fry
• 1/2 cup white sugar (for topping)
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon (for topping)

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Chocolate Dip

• chocolate frosting or chocolate hazelnut spread

 

How to Pipe Churros 

How to pipe Churros – The dough can be quite thick to push through a star tip, so simply cut off a pastry bag end or use a thick zip lock baggie corner. The size hole you cut is the thickness of the churro. Some people like thin like “churro fries” and some like them a little thicker, which helps get more of the outside crunch but inside chew.

If you adjust your churro size smaller, just be mindful that it cooks faster and if you make it too large, the middle wont cook as fast as the outside.

For the first few churros, you may be adjusting your timing.   For the purposes of this recipe, the size of the churros are about a “cheese stick.”

 

 

 

How to make Churros at Home

Add water, sugar, salt and oil into a saucepan.

Heat over medium high heat, stirring frequently.

Bring to a boil. Remove from heat.

Stir in flour until a dough forms, but do not overmix. 

Let dough cool for just a few minutes so it’s easier to handle without burning yourself holding the piping bag, but still warm.

Heat vegetable oil in a skillet until hot. (I had about 2″ of oil in my pan)

Place dough into pastry bag and snip the tip so it’s about 1″ in diameter.

Pipe a 4-5″ strip of dough into hot oil or pipe on a cutting board and use tongs to carefully place into hot oil.

Either method works.

Fry 3-5 churros for 3-5 minutes, until browned on the outside.

Remove fried churros from pan and drain excess oil on paper towels.

Repeat process until all dough is cooked.

Mix sugar and cinnamon together and dredge churros into mixture, coating evenly.

 

Heat dipping sauce in microwave for 10 seconds and stir.

The chocolate sauce we used is Nutella chocolate, spooned into a bowl, microwaved for 10 seconds and stirred. You can reheat the Nutella as needed while eating.

Makes 10 churros

Where can you buy premade churros? Do not want to make your own churros?  Every brand makes them a bit different from crunchy to soft, but some fan favorites  are Taco Bell and Jack in the Box. Additionally, you can find frozen churros at local stores- OREO has a churro filled with cookie cream!

As always, if you test out this recipe and have feedback, made changes that are DELICIOUS, we want to hear from you! Leave a comment and let us know your changes, your dipping sauce ideas, or to troubleshoot if you had problems. We want every recipe to be perfection for you and love hearing from our readers!

Trisha