Churros is popular Spanish sweet snack consisting of a strip of fried dough and dusted with sugar or cinnamon. Pretty much a cinnamon doughnut but in stick form and crunchier. In this recipe I pair them with a chocolate brandy sauce.

Churros
+ 1 cup of water
+ 100gm butter
+ 2 tbs of brown sugar
+ 1 tsp of vanilla extract
+ pinch of salt
+ 1 cup of flour
+ 3 – 4 eggs
+ 1 liter vegetable oil
+ 2 tbs cinnamon, to dust
+ 10 tbs castor sugar, to dust

Brandy Chocolate Sauce
+ 3/4 cup of milk
+ 2 tbs of caster sugar
+ 2 tbs of butter
+ 300gm dark chocolate chips
+ A pinch of salt
+ 2 tbs of brandy

Churros
1. Firstly you need make choux pastry (same as eclairs or profiteroles). Bring water to the boil in a saucepan, add butter and cook dissolved.
2. Add brown sugar, vanilla extract and salt.
3. Add flour and continuously stir with a wooden spoon, cook for 10 minutes or until the dough is coming off the sides.
4. Take the dough off the heat, one at a time add eggs, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, the dough should be a soft and pipeable.
5. Cover with plastic wrap and cool down in the fridge for around 10 – 15 minutes.
6. In a deep bottomed pan, heat up vegetable oil over high heat. Test the oil by placing the end of your wooden spoon in the the oil and little bubbles should form around the wooden spoon.
7. Place chilled dough in a 1cm flower nozzle (or whatever size you like) and pipe strips into the hot oil, using your finger to cut off the end.
8. Cook each churros until golden on the outside and soft on the inside, around 5 – 10 minutes depending on the thickness of churros.
9. Place cooked churros on absorbent paper let cool for a few minutes.
10. Place castor sugar, cinnamon and vanilla bean seeds in a bag, add churros and shake for a few seconds.

Brandy Chocolate Sauce
1. In a pot place milk, sugar and butter over medium to high heat. Stir gently with a spatula until the sugar melts.
2. Add chocolate chips and half melt, take off the heat to finish off the melting process, add salt.
3. Once sauce has slightly cooled add brandy.

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