mini churro bites
Bite-sized Mexican churros! These little guys make a spectacular party favor or dessert option!
Mini Churro Bites!
Recipe type: Dessert
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Ingredients
- 1 large ziplock bag
- veggie oil (deep fryer or large pot with oil).
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- Dough:
- 1 cup of water
- cinnamon stick
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- 1 tsp. salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup flour
- 3 tbsp. butter
Instructions
- Boil water with cinnamon stick.
- Remove cinnamon stick.
- Add 1 tbsp. sugar, and 1 tsp. salt.
- Stir.
- Stir in 3 tbsp. butter or margarine.
- Remove from heat.
- Add one cup of flour and stir, stir, stir until the dough comes together.
- Set dough aside in a glass bowl allowing the temperature to lower.
- To make the cinnamon dust, mix 1 cup sugar and 2 tsp. cinnamon.
- Stir together until blended.
- Going back to the churro dough, crack the eggs over the top of the dough. Fold in the egg until dough is smooth.
- Preheat the veggie oil to 350F
- Scrape the sticky dough into a large ziplock bag.
- Twist all of the air out of the baggy.
- Cut the tip off of one corner of the bag's bottom.
- Squeeze the bag and snip off one inch pieces into the oil.
- You should do batches of 6 or so at a time.
- Flip the churro bites over once they turn golden in color.
- Allow them to cook through and remove and set on a stack of paper towels.
- Roll them through the sugar mixture and serve!