Family favourite churros

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Ingredients

  • 50g caster sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder
  • 125g plain flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 250 ml boiled water
  • 15 ml olive oil
  • canola oil
  • Chocolate sauce
  • 100g good quality dark chocolate
  • 25g good quality milk chocolate
  • 15ml golden syrup
  • 150ml double cream
Difficulty
Medium
Serves
25
Special options
Vegetarian, Egg-free,

An easy dessert that is fun to make. Choose your favourite dipping sauce, we love chocolate and strawberry or simply enjoy with sugar and cinnamon.

Method

For the chocolate dipping: Melt all the chocolate sauce ingredients in a heavy-based saucepan, really gently, and once the chocolate starts to melt, stir everything together, take off the heat and leave in a warm place.

For the sugar coating: Mix the sugar and cinnamon powder in a wide, shallow dish (this is for shaking the cooked churros about in) to coat churros later.

For making the churros:

Combine flour and baking powder, mix well

Add in the oil, and freshly boiled water, mix until you have a sticky dough, let it rest for 10 minutes

In the meantime, heat the oil in a small saucepan (the oil should be around one-third of the way up the sides of the pan). The temperature should be around 170°C.

Load up a pipping bag with a large star-shaped nozzle and fill with the churros dough.

Squeeze short lengths of dough about 5-6 cm into the hot oil, and snip off the churros with a pair of scissors.

Cook the churros in batches about 3-4 at a time, until they are golden, dry them in paper towel.

Just before serving, toss all churros in the sugar and cinnamon mixture and shake them well.

Serve with dipping sauce.

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