Churros con chocolate are churros are served with a delicious warm chocolate sauce, for a fun and delicious treat. Super easy to make at home with regular pantry ingredients!
If you’ve ever enjoyed churros in a restaurant, you’ll be pleased to know that they are easy to make at home!
You only need a pastry bag and optionally a tip (for the ridged shape) and you’re good to go!
Warm churros dipped in chocolate are a special treat!
Ingredients and substitutions
A few notes about the key ingredients …
Chocolate – a good quality dark chocolate will produce the best results for the chocolate sauce.
Vegetable Oil – you’ll need a good quantity of vegetable oil for frying the churros. I find vegetable oil works well, but other neutral-tasting, high-smoke-point other will work here, as well.
Recipe tips!
These are most easily made using a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. That’s what makes the ridged shape in the churros. I your don’t have these, you can just add the dough to a plastic bag and snip of a corner. You will get a simple tube shape, but they will still be delicious!
Making ahead, storing and freezing
Churros will always be best enjoyed freshly fried. You can store any leftovers in an airtight container and reheat on a baking sheet in a 350F oven to bring a little crispness back to them.
You can freeze the churros for longer storage.
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Ingredients
For the cinnamon sugar:
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
For the chocolate sauce:
- 1 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream, 35% b.f.
- 1 cup semisweet 70% chocolate, finely chopped
For the Churros Dough:
- 1 cup water
- 2 1/2 Tablespoons white granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Vegetable oil for deep-frying, about 4 cups (1 L)
Instructions
- Cinnamon Sugar: In a small bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon just to combine. Set aside.
- For the chocolate sauce: In a medium saucepan over medium heat, add the cream. Let it come to a gentle simmer, making sure it doesn’t boil. Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl, then pour the hot cream over the chocolate and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Allow to sit for 4 minutes, or until the chocolate is melted. Remove the plastic wrap, and whisk or stir to combine. Set aside.
- Churros Dough: In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the water, sugar, salt, and vegetable oil. Bring to a boil, then remove the pan from the heat. Using a wooden spoon, beat in the flour until thick paste forms. Return the pan to the heat, and cook for another minute.
- Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed pot or deep fryer over medium-high heat to 375°F (191°C). Line a baking sheet with paper towels.
- Place the dough into the piping bag. Pipe dough about 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) in length into the oil, use scissors to cut the dough. Do 3 or 4 at a time so as not to overcrowd the pot. Deep-fry until golden brown and crispy, about 4 minutes. Remove using a slotted spoon or spider and let drain on the paper towel–lined baking sheet. Immediately toss with the cinnamon sugar to ensure the coating will stick. Repeat with the remaining batter.
- Serve warm or at room temperature with the chocolate sauce.
Hi! I’m Jennifer, a home cook schooled by trial and error and almost 40 years of getting dinner on the table! I love to share my favourite recipes, both old and new, together with lots of tips and tricks to hopefully help make your home cooking enjoyable, stress free, rewarding and of course, delicious!
THIS. IS. SO. GOOD!! I made it for my much much younger sister’s ninth birthday and she LOVED them!! The only thing was I didn’t have the star shaped piping bag so I used a regular one. What I recommend for this is that you make sure it is even when you push it out of the bag, because if not it will be a bit lopsided and not very pretty. Still will be delicious though! Also didn’t have heavy whipping cream, so I just melted HERSHEY’S and it was still delicious. For the most part this is so so easy and fun and I loved it so much. Dunno if you made the ones in the picture but if you did, wow they are beautiful!!!
So glad you enjoyed them, Joss :) And yes, I did make the ones in the photo (I had a star tip to use, though). Thanks so much!
Yo creo que esta receta fue muy buena. La receta fue fácil y divertida de hacer. La salsa de chocolate hace mucho mejor. El churro era delicioso. Es un postre muy bueno, y quiero hacer el de nuevo.
Muchas gracias, Katie :)