Hi Bold Bakers!
I love a good mash-up when it comes to my sweets: taking two amazing desserts and turning
them into one.
Just like a s'more pie or lemon meringue ice cream.
So just imagine what would happen if we took a churro and a mixed it with a donut.
It is going to be amazing, so let's get baking!
So just before we start making our churro donuts, the recipe can be found on BiggerBolderBaking.com,
and if you're new to my channel, welcome, and make sure you tap that subscribe button
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We're gonna start out in a large bowl and mix together our dry ingredients.
Into our bowl, we're going to add in our flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and a little
bit of cinnamon.
And then all you want to do is just whisk them all together.
So for those of you who've had churro before, cinnamon is a very important ingredient, so
you want to make sure that goes in there.
Okay, that's all our dry ingredients.
Now we're gonna set them aside and we're gonna mix together our wet ingredients in
a separate jug.
Add in some milk, eggs, melted butter, and vanilla extract, and then just whisk all together.
So if you watch a lot of Bigger Bolder Baking, you know that I love vanilla extract, but
if you don't have it, you can always just leave it out.
So there you go, can you see the color of this?
That just goes to show the color of my yolks, and that they're good quality eggs.
They're lovely and a dark orange.
Okay, that's it.
So now we're gonna set this aside, we're gonna bring in our dry ingredients and then
we're gonna add our wet into our dry.
So as you can see this makes a nice, soft batter, this is what we're going for.
So now you know the way churros are traditionally fried?
Well, I have a magic trick, we're gonna make ours baked, and I'm gonna show you that right
now.
So here's my trick: a homemade donut pan.
You don't need to go to the store and buy a donut pan, 'cause you can make your own
and the results are amazing.
So I'm just gonna show you really quickly, but I have actually made this in a video before,
and it's on my website, BiggerBolderBaking.com, just for you to get a longer looking video.
So, you get a piece of tinfoil, around 6x6 inches, so you wanna put your finger in the
middle here.
This is where we get the hole in our donut.
Lovely.
Then we're gonna pull up the sides to make our donut nice and thick.
And then all you want to do is take this piece of tinfoil, pop it into your tin, form it
around the sides, and then I'm just gonna pull this out and show you, and what you end
up with is this lovely little cup that you're gonna bake your donuts in.
So here I have some melted butter and a pastry brush.
Now, I'm just gonna go ahead and brush, liberally, my little tin.
Make sure you get butter everywhere, and then on that little spike in the middle, 'cause
we want our donuts to pop right out of them.
Okay, great.
Be generous with your butter.
Lovely.
Okay, that's our tin done.
So here I have a piping bag full of my batter.
Now, I put it in a piping because it's just easier to get it in there.
If you don't have one, you can always just use a spoon.
Now, all I'm gonna do is just go ahead and fill up your little tray around ? of the way
full.
Now the reason we do this is because you want a lovely, thick donut.
If you ask me, the thicker it is, the better it is.
So I get asked a lot, what is the best dessert I ever had?
Now, one that really springs to mind are candy-capped churros.
Now, candy-cap is actually a type of mushroom, if you believe that or not, and it has a maple
flavor, and they were actually put into the churros.
I had them up in Northern California, they were absolutely amazing.
I think about them every so often.
So there you go, our tray is done, these are looking fantastic, so now we're gonna pop
them into the oven.
Bake them at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, or 180 degrees Celsius for 15-20 minutes.
So I told you my favorite dessert, but I want you to tell me in the comments below what
is the best dessert you ever had, no matter how crazy it is.
Okay, I can smell my donuts, so I think they're done.
Okay, so as you can see, these donuts don't go a really golden brown on top, but they
are cooked, and you can tell that they are by just pressing them down and they're firm
underneath.
So these are looking fantastic, they smell amazing, so we're just gonna let them rest
for five minutes.
So our donuts have cooled down a little bit so what you want to do, take them out of the
tin, and then just carefully peel down the sides and gently remove your little donut
from the peak in the middle.
And there you go: perfect-sized donut.
So now go ahead and set them down on a wire rack to cool completely.
Can you believe how great these look?
Making your own homemade donut tin and you get results like this.
It's pretty impressive.
So in my opinion, what makes churros so tasty is that lovely cinnamon sugar on the outside,
and we're gonna create just that.
So here I have a bowl of melted butter, and then I have a baggie of cinnamon sugar.
Now what we're going to do is take your cooled-down donut, pop them into the melted butter.
Don't worry, it'll all be worth it.
Toss them around, give him a good coat.
Carefully take him out, and then just pop him into the bag of cinnamon sugar.
And then just pick up your baggie and toss him in the cinnamon sugar.
It's just best to do it in a baggie 'cause it really coats the donut.
When he's nice and coated, then gently take him out of your baggie and just look at that.
If that's not a churro donut, I don't know what is!
[Gasps] They're beautiful!
Okay, so go ahead and dip off your donuts.
If you have a little bit of cinnamon sugar left over at the end of this, pop it into
the cupboard and use it in any of your baking, it will taste really good.
Aww, I mean seriously, just look at how cute they are!
Little mini donuts.
Aww, can't wait!
So, traditionally, a churro is served with dulce de leche or a chocolate sauce.
Now, here I have some chocolate ganache, which is cream and chocolate, so how could that
be bad?
And I'm gonna take one of my churros, give him a little bit of a dunky-dunk, and now
for the moment of truth.
Oh, I mean, seriously.
How could this be bad?
It tastes delicious!
It is a churro and a donut mixed together.
It is so good.
And do you know what else?
Best of all, you don't even have to fry them to make them taste like a churro and a donut.
These are amazing!
I really hope you try this recipe.
Check out all of my other videos, and I will see you back here next week, for more Bigger
Bolder Baking.
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