Churro Donuts Recipe
This is seriously the easiest and best churro donuts recipe you could ever learn how to make. Using the pate a choux recipe to create the dough, you can make everything from cream puffs to eclairs, beignets and of course... CHURROS!
Ingredients
- pate a choux donuts recipe below
- pink sugar
- whipped cream
- gel food colors we used pink, peach & yellow
- piping bags
- large star decorating tip
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup butter 1 stick
- 2 tbsp sugar
- dash of salt
- 1 cup flour
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- 4 eggs
- pink sugar
- whipped cream for filling
- gel food colors we used pink, peach & yellow
- piping bags
- large french decorating tip for donuts
- large star decorating tip for whipped cream
Instructions
Pate A Choux Recipe
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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In a medium saucepan, combine water, butter, sugar, vanilla and salt and bring to a boil.
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Reduce heat to medium and allow ingredients to combine completely.
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Once your saucepan ingredients have come together, add all of your flour at once.
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Quickly stir flour and cinnamon into the butter mixture and remove from heat once you see a film begin to form in your pan.
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Let mixture cool slightly, then add to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
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With mixer on medium, add eggs one at a time. Allow each egg to fully incorporate before adding the next egg.
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Add your pate a choux dough to your piping bag fitted with the large french tip and pipe donuts on your prepared baking sheet.
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Bake donuts at 350 degrees for 10-13 minutes. Donuts should be golden on the bottom, light and airy.
Assembling the churro donuts
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Color your whipped cream and add to your piping bag fitted with the large star attachment.
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Brush the tops of your churro donuts with simple syrup and dip in pink sugar.
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Pipe a ring of whipped cream onto your bottom donut and add the top of the churro donut.
