Churros Central

[Leah Soechting]

Upuntil several years ago, this churros obsessed food blogger thought Churros was native to Mexico. Thus on her first (but certianly not last) trip to Mexico, she was expecting to be in churro heaven. Churros, churros, churros everywhere.

The safest and easiest way to cook churros is to use scissors. Because the batter is so thick, you can pipe the batter out and it will hang from the piping bag as you lower it into the oil (as opposed to dropping out, causing the oil to splash), then just snip with scissors.

Thank you for the recipe. The recipe is simple and very easy to make. Just that the dough 50-50% flour:water ratio makes quite a tough dough. I made x4 of the portion. For the first batch it did turns out really well but for 2nd batch the dough is quite dry so I added a little bit more water to soften the dough. Piping churros requires a lot of patience because this is when the chaos begin. My piping bag burst out and I had to replace it 7 times. Also using scissors is quite troublesome as the extra seconds I took to grab the scissors each time makes the piped dough becaming slimmer and slender the longer I took to cut it. In the end I just pinch it with my finger. Otherwise if it is has already fell into the oil due to gravity, I just cut them with scissors inside the oil. The churros is really crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Will definitely make this again but I need to find a cookies press gun to pipe the dough next time.

Fantastic recipe. Saved the day when the local Mexican restaurant put chocolate and strawberry syrup all over our churro order and I had a dissapointed boy. Was a fun easy recipe for a 9 year old to help with.

After reading the comments I used a gallon freezer bag instead of a pastry bag and had no issues.

As a Spaniard living in Australia, I appreciate finally seeing a proper authentic recipe for churros! It is exactly the way my grandma would make them! For anyone struggling with a piping bag I would recommend using a cookie press instead if you have one.

I was never a churro person till I came here!! The churros were defrigginlicous! The customer service friendly and speedy. The vibe cute as a button (or well churro). There were so many options but my husband and I ended up getting 3 churros with Nutella dip and holy moly, my life changed in an instance!...

After lunch I stopped by Chiki Churro and got the sundae with two churros and vanilla ice cream. The guy behind the counter was friendly and gave recommendations. I am a sucker for a dessert and the sundae was definitely a great choice.

...The churros are crispy and bready. They are a more heavier type of churro. Not the typical airy kind. I was quite surprised at how they were able to get them so crispy and chewy at the same time. They are delicious! I found them to be filling and 3 could easily be shared. In hindsight, as with any fried item, they are best eaten right away...

You guys, churros and chocolate whiskey sauce! If this is wrong, I don't want to be right. I really don't know when I had my first churro, which sounds a bit like the history of churros, which no one seems to know the exact origin of. Some say it began with Spanish shepherds, while others claim it originated in China by Portuguese merchants who discovered something similar and decided to recreate it. What can't be argued is that they're delicious, and that I've had a lot of them, especially at baseball games. What am I supposed to do when someone is waving what amounts to a Spanish version of a cruller donut in my face?

Recently, my friend and pastry connoisseur Beth Meyer went to Spain, where evidently churros are about as common of a breakfast item as croissants are in France. Why didn't I think of this? I'll never eat a S'mores Pop-Tart again. Naturally, being the pastry chef that Beth is, she recreated the Spanish delicacy, making her own churros recipe. So it was only appropriate to challenge Beth to create a whiskey version. Which essentially entails adding a couple tablespoons of whiskey to the chocolate sauce.

As Beth discusses in her original post, churros are essentially fried pastry dough made from Choux paste, which is also used in dessert recipes like eclairs and profiteroles (cream puffs). All you really need to have is a large star pastry nozzle and disposable pastry bags. Most everything else you probably have in the kitchen. See the full churros recipe below from Beth.

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In a medium saucepan, over medium heat, melt butter, water, 1 tablespoon of sugar and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and add flour all at once. Quickly stir together with a spatula until no lumps remain, and the mixture begins to form a ball. This will take about 30 to 45 seconds. Remove from heat and place loose dough ball in a large bowl.

Fry dough for 5 to 7 minutes. This might seem like a long time, but the dough through the center needs to cook through. The churros will be a deep golden brown, and may split slightly when cooked. Keep an eye on the timer. Remove churros from hot oil and place on a paper towel. After slightly degreased, toss in cinnamon sugar mixture and place on a plate to serve.

Place chocolate chunks, pinch of salt, and espresso powder (if using) in a medium bowl. In a small saucepan, bring the heavy cream to a boil. Pour the heavy cream over the chocolate pieces. Let rest for 1 minute before whisking. Whisk until chocolate is completely melted. Serve warm with warm churros.

When I was newly-wed (somewhere around the mid-80s), my new husband and I went to Disney World. While riding the energy ride (the one with the dinosaurs where the theater seats turn into trains), the dinosaurs died. We sat there, in our seats, while the lights went on, men in overalls came from behind the scenes, and all the dinosaurs hung their heads and uttered a dying groan. We had to leave by walking behind the dinosaurs. Guess what? There is no behind on the dinosaurs! We walked behind the machinery, through what looked like the back of a factory, and out into Disney.

Love all your recipes.Just wanted to let you know!I just made the churros for afternoon tea for friends and they were fantastic.l have made a few different recipes and these were amazing.Thank-you Thank-you.

Big fan of churros but never made them. I have a question; would this work by coating them in oil then baking or are we just looking at profiteroles if I did this? I ask this because I have a deep fat fryer phobia. Weird, I know.

Awesome recipe! It looks a little like choux, but fried. Anyway, what I rmemnber from Disneyland is candyfloss^^Anyway this recipe is great, even greater with some melted nutella (or is it too much?)!

You should try the spanish version. All cofee shops serve them for breakfast. Small ones (churros) or big ones (porras). Recipe is much simpler. Wam the water (about cups) with a pintch of salt. Add the same amount of flour with a teaspoon of baking powder. Mix well. Form the churros and fry in hot oil. Sprinkle with sugar before eating.

I love your writing!! I find it interesting to see how people write, especially after reading their work or hearing them talk. You write and talk differently to what I imagined, but I like it. I dont know really what I imagined, but now I am imagining eating these delicious churros!! yum. you rock.

I ask because I am looking for a good, commercial-grade pastry bag. My current one is a heavy gauge rubberized/cloth one, and it is starting to tear where the tip edge meets the bag. Not cool to have filling oozing out from the tear. Trust me on this one.

I grew up in Anaheim, with annual passes to Disneyland. Churros totally remind me of childhood afternoons at the Magic Kingdom. But without the chocolate sauce. Churros need no sauce. Churros are already perfection.

Those look insane. Somehow I think my hubby might love me more if I made these, but I have to resist! For a little while at least. Wow, those look good :D I remember going to Disneyland once when I was younger(with frizzy hair and big teeth too if I remember correctly). Although I never hurt myself in any way. But I would have purposely tripped or something if I could have seen Tinkerbell smoking. Hilarious!

ohmygoodness. those look amazingly delicious. is it wierd that i have a lot of food-related memories of disney as well? though mine memories involve couscous with cranberries at magic kingdom over thanksgiving break when i was nine. i wish i had a churro memory, though. yum!

delicious! this seems to be a basic pate a choux dough, right? so i bet you could pipe them onto a sheet pan, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and bake them to make like, the best eclairs ever, right? maybe fill them with cinnamon-spiced chocolate pastry cream?

SAME EXACT tradition here! Funny thing is when I took my kids there about two years ago they still have the churro stand in the exact same spot as when I was a kid. It was great sharing that tradition with them! :)

Despite all that, the churros were a hit! All of my taste testers at the picnic agreed that this was a winning recipe. No one could tell it was baked as opposed to fried, and the bite sized portions made them easy to transport.

With some kitchen tongs, place hot churros onto some tin foil or parchment paper and sprinkle/roll into cinnamon sugar, all sides. The cinnamon/sugar mixture comes included inside the box of frozen churros.

We made this churros recipe for Cinco de Mayo this year and our family of four easily finished off a single batch in one sitting like it was nothing. So if you have more people that you are planning on serving, I definitely recommend doubling (or tripling!) the batch.

Spain is well-known for its sun-clad beaches and mouthwateringly fresh food. And while my years in Barcelona and Madrid were full of fun in the sun, no one mentioned the cold that emanates from stone and plaster walls during winter in an apartment building hundreds of years old.

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