Churros with Mexican Chocolate Sauce

Name: Churros with Mexican Chocolate Sauce
Yield: Makes 18 churros
Ingredients: 2 cups, water; 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 tablespoons, sugar, plus ½ cup (3½ ounces), divided; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; ½ teaspoon, table salt; 2 cups (10 ounces), all-purpose flour; 2 , large eggs; 2 quarts, vegetable oil; ¾ teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1¼ cups (8¾ ounces), sugar; ⅔ cup, whole milk; ¼ teaspoon, table salt; ¼ teaspoon, ground cinnamon; ¼ teaspoon, chipotle chile powder; ⅓ cup (1 ounce), unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted; 3 ounces, unsweetened chocolate, chopped fine; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces and chilled; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

14 comments

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

There's a lot to love about churros: These fluted pastries are fried until crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, at which point they're rolled in a cinnamon-sugar coating and served with a side of rich, warm chocolate sauce for dipping.

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from Everything Chocolate

SERVESMakes 18 churros

TIME1½ hours

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from Everything Chocolate

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

A decadent breakfast treat for sure, but there's no denying that the lightly crisp pastry, inviting fragrance of cinnamon, and slightly bitter edge of chocolate pair perfectly with a steaming mug of coffee. Many recipes call for piping the ...

This is a members' feature.