Churros with Warm Dipping Chocolate

A Churro is a pastry dough based snack fried in oil and the outside has an uneven texture due to being piped through a piping bag with a star shaped nozzle.

Ingredients serve 6

½ cup water (125g)

½ cup milk (125g)

2 tsp caster sugar (15g)

100 g unsalted butter

150 g plain flour

1 tsp vanilla extract

3 eggs (150g)

Method

Place water, milk, sugar and butter in a cooking pot and bring to the boil, add flour, stir until evenly combined. Add eggs gradually and pipe mixture onto trays with baking paper using star nozzle no. 9. Freeze and store in closed containers in the freezer. Cook in the deep fryer on 180º C approx. 5 min., let excessive oil drip off and then roll in cinnamon sugar.

Hot Chocolate Sauce

Place 200 g cream in a cooking pot and bring to the boil. Add 50 g dark chopped chocolate and stir until dissolved. Pour into glasses and place on serving plate with churros.

Note: Try adding 1 tablespoon sweet chili sauce to the warm chocolate.