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Family Friendly Fridays: Chocolate Churros

February 18, 2011 By Julie 47 Comments

I have had this recipe on my radar for some time now.  It all started when I resolved to create a list of 100 “must make” dishes in the name of organization and pop it up on my Facebook page.  I added churros to the manifest and concluded almost immediately that I needed to make them ASAP.  And here I am, four weeks later, and they’re finally up for all to enjoy.  I’m honestly not sure why it took me this long to make them (although I’m positive my husband would have some valuable insight to share regarding said procrastination habits).  They’re simple to make, the kids loved them, and the hubby literally ate half the batch upon walking in the door from work, proclaiming it be an appetizer before dinner.

I personally loved the addition of chocolate to the mix.  I realize that I  “de-authenticated” the recipe a bit by doing so, but my goodness, this is chocolate we’re talking about.  I’m sure once you’ve tried a couple you’ll be able to forgive me for the indiscretion.

Ingredients Needed:

1 Cup Water
3 Tbsp Butter
2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
1/4 tsp Salt
1 Cup Flour
2 Tbsp Cocoa
2 tsp Cinnamon
2 Large Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1/4 Cup Sugar
Oil for Frying

Start out by adding your water, butter, brown sugar, and salt to a pot and let it come to a rolling boil.

While your water is heating up, grab the flour, 1 teaspoon of the cinnamon, and the cocoa.  Mix it all together.

Once your water is boiling, remove it from the heat and add in the chocolaty flour mixture.

Stir it in until a dough ball forms.  Here’s where we’re at so far.

Notice that there’s a smile forming on your face.  You’re making churros baby.  Even better, in a few more minutes you’ll be eating churros.  Chocolate churros.

But of course I digress.

To finish up the batter, you’ll add in the eggs and vanilla.  Mix it together well to finish off your dough.

Time to cook these little beauties up.

Grab your pastry bag and load it up with the dough.  I find that if I stick the pastry bag inside a glass and roll the edges of the bag down around it, I have a much easier time filling up.  For the tip I used a size 1M from Wilton.  You can find it at your local craft store in the cake and candy making section.  Mine was $1.49, so not too big of an investment.  You can also  pipe them out by  cutting a corner from your bag.  You simply won’t have the classic star shape that you usually see associated with churros.

Grab a fryer if you have it, or simply grab a large pan and fill it with about 1″ of cooking oil.  Turn your heat on medium high and give it a good five or so minutes to heat up.

Once your oil is good and hot, you can start piping out your churros.  I found that cooking about 3 to 4 at a time worked well.

It’s too bad I can’t pump churro smell out of my computer, because it was at this point that my kitchen was beginning to smell pretty darn incredible.

Cook the churros for about a minute on each side and then pull them out and allow them to cool and drain.   As you can see, my first few looked more like “J’s” than churros, but after a couple more attempts, I got the method down a bit better.

Mix together the white sugar and remaining teaspoon of cinnamon.  Grab up your cooled churros and spin them around the mixture in order to get them good and coated.

Now all that’s left to do is grab a bowl chocolate sauce for dipping and have at it.

Chocolate churros.  You can’t tell me they weren’t worth the wait.

 

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Chocolate Churros

Total Time: 40 min

Ingredients:

1 Cup Water
3 Tbsp Butter
2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
1/4 tsp Salt
1 Cup Flour
2 Tbsp Cocoa
2 tsp Cinnamon
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1/4 Cup Sugar
Oilfor Frying

Directions:

Start out by adding your water, butter, brown sugar, and salt to a pot and let it come to a rolling boil.

While your water is heating up, grab the flour, 1 teaspoon of the cinnamon, and the cocoa. Mix it all together.

Once your water is boiling, remove it from the heat and add in the chocolaty flour mixture.

To finish up the batter, you'll add in the eggs and vanilla. Mix it together well to finish off your dough.

Grab up your pastry bag and load it up with the dough. I find that if I stick the pastry bag inside a glass and roll the edges of the bag down around it, I have a much easier time filling up. For the tip I used a size 1M from Wilton. You can find it at your local craft store in the cake and candy making section. Mine was $1.49, so not too big of an investment. You can also just pipe them out by just cutting a corner from your bag. You simply won't have the classic star shape that you usually see associated with churros.

Grab a fryer if you have it, or simply grab a large pan and fill it with about 1" of cooking oil. Turn your heat on medium high and give it a good five or so minutes to heat up.

Once your oil is good and hot, you can start piping your churros into the oil. I found that cooking about 3 to 4 at a time worked well.

Cook the churros for about a minute on each side and then pull them out and allow them to cool and drain.

Mix together the white sugar and remaining teaspoon of cinnamon. Grab up your cooled churros and spin them around the mixture in order to get them good and coated.

Serve with chocolate sauce for dipping.

Chocolate Infused Churros on Foodista

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Filed Under: Dessert, Family Friendly Fridays, Food, Other, Other Sweet Treats Tagged With: brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, Cocoa, eggs, flour, food, Mexican, oil, recipe, salt, Sugar, vanilla, water

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Comments

  1. Miel Abeille says

    February 18, 2011 at 7:08 am

    My mouth is watering! Freshman year of high school, we made churros in Foreign Cuisine. Yum!!! Maybe I’ll surprise someone with a tasty treat one night after tacos. 🙂

    Reply
  2. deeba says

    February 18, 2011 at 10:06 am

    Oh yes, these are worth grabbing right off the screen! I love churros, and these look delish!!

    Reply
  3. Katerina says

    February 18, 2011 at 10:13 am

    I know that churros are served with coffee or chocolate in Spain and I’ve always wanted to try them. I am keeping this because after seeing these beauties I will definitely make them.

    Reply
  4. Pamela Fatone says

    February 18, 2011 at 10:16 am

    east breezy love it! thx

    Reply
  5. Pamela Fatone says

    February 18, 2011 at 10:18 am

    That was EASY breezy! can not eat and spell at the same time 🙂

    Reply
  6. Biren @ Roti n Rice says

    February 18, 2011 at 11:26 am

    Believe or not, I have never tried churros. Your chocolate ones look really good. Please send a few over 😉

    Reply
  7. Faith says

    February 18, 2011 at 11:36 am

    I had churros several times but I don’t think they are compared to yours Julie. Yours look so delicous and easy to make. I love the addition of choclate to it, it makes it even more delicous.

    Have a great weekend 🙂

    Reply
  8. Laura in Cancun says

    February 18, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    You’re KILLING me! *drools onto keyboard*

    Reply
  9. Tanvi@SinfullySpicy says

    February 18, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    This is delight!!! I love churros.What pro looking churros u have made Julie!!I saw Giada’s episode on Food Network where she was making churros but trust me your recipe is far easy than hers.I m gonna try this obe for sure.Have a nice weekend!!

    Reply
  10. Rach says

    February 18, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    I’ve never heard of these, but they sure do look yummy!

    Reply
  11. Kasia says

    February 18, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    I saw churros so many times and never got to make those… but yours… oh yum! as soon as I have some time on my hands they are on my list 🙂

    Reply
  12. Mama Kelly aka Jia says

    February 18, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    I just love churros and I bet the family would love eating a batch made from scratch.

    Reply
  13. Gina says

    February 18, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    Oh, my! Churros were a big part of my younger years in San Diego. We would go to The Panaderia in Old Town where they made them fresh. Can you believe I started a diet AND my first blog yesterday? Don’t think it will stop me from following your blog if I can figure out how…Thanks! ?

    Reply
  14. rebecca says

    February 18, 2011 at 11:45 pm

    wow these are fun reminds me of Barcelona the normal ones with hot choc but you combined the two perfect

    Reply
  15. Sylvie @ Gourmande in the Kitchen says

    February 18, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    Chocolate churros are inspired! Churros are great dipped in chocolate sauce, so why not add it directly to the dough! Love it.

    Reply
  16. Anna Johnston says

    February 19, 2011 at 4:21 am

    I’ve NEVER had these churros. My life is incomplete until I try them…, they look amazing Julie 🙂

    Reply
  17. Medeja says

    February 19, 2011 at 6:18 am

    They look cute.. and that cacao is nice addition 🙂 cute treats

    Reply
  18. anne says

    February 19, 2011 at 10:54 am

    Choolate…Churros…oh my , this is being added to my “must make” list! anne

    Reply
  19. Ameena says

    February 19, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Can you believe I have never had a churro? My gosh, I can’t believe what I’ve been missing! I love the chocolate version that you’ve come up with – it looks delicious!

    Reply
  20. Sorta Southern Single Mom says

    February 19, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    I have issues with Family Friendly Fridays… my kids will love this…my waistline will not! 🙂

    Reply
  21. What2Cook says

    February 19, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    How I love me some churros, but for some reason I never thought about mixing chocolate into the dough.

    Now I know what I am going to be eating later on today. 🙂

    Reply
  22. Mari's Cakes says

    February 19, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    I love this recipe, and I am going to make it right now. I’ll let you know the outcome, but I am sure it is delicious.

    Thanks for the recipe.

    Reply
  23. Mari's Cakes says

    February 19, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    They came out DELICIOUS!!! I had to add a little more flour, but it taste great!!! We love it! Thanks

    Reply
  24. Kay, The Church Cook says

    February 19, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    Oh,wow! My children will adore these. THANK YOU, Julie!

    Reply
  25. Beth says

    February 20, 2011 at 8:33 am

    Those look amazing! I wish I could smell your kitchen too!

    Reply
  26. A little bit of everything says

    February 20, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    I love churros but mine never turned out so beautifully like yours. love the cinnamon-sugar coat. thanks for sharing Julie. Hope you’ll have a wonderful Monday

    Reply
  27. Monet says

    February 21, 2011 at 12:18 am

    Personally, I think churros and chocolate were destined to find each other. I love eating these little pieces of fried dough, but I’ve never tried making them before. Yours look too good! Thank you for sharing tonight! I hope you have a great Monday, my friend.

    Reply
  28. Holly L says

    February 23, 2011 at 1:01 am

    I have always wanted to make my own churros – truly one of my favorites!

    Reply
  29. Jason says

    February 24, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    I never knew it was that easy to make churros. They look great!

    Reply
  30. Mari's Cakes says

    February 25, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    Julie, I did it for the third time!!

    I know what went wrong, the first time I waited for the water to cool down a bit, which is wrong.

    Your recipe is exactly right. The third time I did it I poured the flour on boiling water then turn of heat and stirred. They came out PERFECT!!! Thanks.

    Reply
  31. Marialuisa says

    February 28, 2011 at 9:45 am

    Hey from Spain. Thanks you made your “Chocolate con Churros”, that´s really Spanish. We have them anytime, when we are hot, when we are cold, in summer, in winter…..when we are a bit depressed…….god, so good!!!.
    Thanks
    Regards from Spain
    Marialuisa

    Reply
  32. Robyn | Add a Pinch says

    February 28, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    Oh my, these look heavenly!

    Reply
  33. AllieMakes says

    March 1, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    This looks SOO yummy! I never would have thought to use a decorating tip to do this into the oil. Genius. And Chocolate?? Seriously Genius!

    Reply
  34. malia says

    March 1, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    gorgeous! and i am loving your little *facelift” on your dear blog. looks amazing! xo

    Reply
  35. roz says

    March 1, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    I’m so glad that you stopped by my blog and are now following; I’m now followin your TREMENDOUS foodie blog too and look forward to all of your great posts! Roz

    Reply
  36. Stephanie says

    March 3, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    I love churros but I’ve never had a chocolate one. These look amazing!! I’m really impressed that you made them from scratch and deep fried them yourself too. I’m sure your kitchen smelled incredible. They should make candles and air fresheners in scents like churro! (Hmm, that’s a good idea…)

    Reply
  37. Brian @ A Thought For Food says

    July 13, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    This is the second churro recipe I’ve seen in the past week and i’m hooked. They look marvelous!

    Reply
  38. The Cilantropist says

    August 7, 2011 at 11:38 am

    I was browsing over at Gojee and saw this recipe and had to stop by. Genius!!! Adding chocolate to one of my favorite fried treats is a smart move lady. 😉

    Reply
  39. lia says

    April 14, 2012 at 8:19 am

    hi i wonder whether we can charge brown sugar to white sugar?

    Reply
  40. LisaDay says

    February 21, 2013 at 7:40 am

    I really want to make these as well. Cinnamon. Dough. What can be better?

    LIsaDay

    Reply
  41. http://www.jadenovah.com/ says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:04 am

    Hi Angie, your brown rice pilaf look very yummy. Love the combination, very unique. As usual your presentation and photography is excellent.Have a lovely week ahead.

    Reply
  42. Belle says

    August 31, 2020 at 6:28 am

    Lovely recipe, they make up nicely. I made mine up in my new churro maker. My only issue was that I found the batter extremely thick and hard to pipe. Loved them all the same though.

    Reply

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