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Homemade Churros and Hot Chocolate Recipe

Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine Mexican, spanish

Ingredients
  

Churros

  • 250 ml Water 1 cup
  • 12 gr White Sugar 1 tbsp
  • 6 gr Salt 1 tsp
  • 60 gr Butter 4 tbsp
  • 125 gr All-Purpose Flour 1 cup
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • Frying Oil
  • 100 gr White Sugar for Coating 1/2 cup

Hot Chocolate Sauce

  • 250 ml Water 1 cup
  • 25 gr White Sugar 2 tbsp
  • 11 gr Cornstarch 1.5 tbsp
  • 15 gr Unsweetened Cocoa Powder 2 tbsp

Instructions
 

  • In a saceoan, mix water, salt, sugar and butter. Place it a medium heat unti the butter melts and starts simmering.
  • Reduce the heat, add the flour and fold it in. Cook and stir constantly with a spatula until mixture comes together and is smooth.
  • Add the vanilla, transfer to a new bowl and wait for the mixture to cool.
  • Use an electric mixer to incorporate the eggs one at the time.
  • Transfer the choux pastry into a piping bag with a star tip.
  • You can pipe the churros directly into hot oil to fry, or pipe them into precut parchment paper pieces, and fry them in hot frying oil.
  • Fry for about 2 minutes on each side, or until golden brown.
  • Allow the Churros to slightly cool, then coat them with sugar. You can add vanilla flavores sugar or cinnamon to the sugar if you prefer to.

Hot Chocolate Sauce

  • Mix together the sugar, cornstarch, and the unsweetened cocoa powder. Add the cold water and mix together.
  • Cook the mixture on medium heat while continuously whisking until it thickens.
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