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Maple-Bacon Churros // magicaltreatsathome.com

Maple-Bacon Churro

  • Author: Elana Lepkowski
  • Yield: 14-16 churros 1x
  • Category: Treats

Description

A sweet maple glaze and salty bacon bits top this classic cinnamon sugar churro found at Grizzly Peak in Disney’s California Adventure Park from the “Get Your Ears On” celebration. A Disneyland-inspired treat.


Ingredients

Scale

Toppings

  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 34 pieces of bacon
  • 1/2 cup maple syrup
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1 cup powdered sugar

Churro:

  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
  • big pinch of salt
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 2 eggs
  • vegetable oil for frying

Tools:


Instructions

For the toppings:

  1. Line two half sized sheet pans with parchment, set aside. Mix together 1/2 cup of granulated sugar and cinnamon in a long shallow bowl or loaf pan, set aside.
  2. Cook the bacon until crispy. Depending on the type of bacon you have, this can take about 8-10 minutes on medium high, flipping halfway through cooking. Drain on paper towels, cool, chop into small pieces and set aside.
  3. Make the maple glaze by combining maple syrup, butter, and milk in a medium sized saucepan. Bring to a boil and whisk for two minutes. Remove from heat. Slowly pour in powdered sugar, whisking continuously until combined and smooth. Set aside until ready to use or funnel into a squeeze bottle. (This will make more maple glaze than you need for just drizzling on your churros! This will keep refrigerated up to two weeks. Warm before using.)

For the churros:

  1. In a medium sized saucepan over medium-high heat, combine water, butter, sugar and salt. Bring to a boil, or until butter has melted.
  2. Turn burner to low and pour in all the flour at once. Stir until there are no visible flour lumps and dough has begun to stick together in a ball and pulled away from the sides of the pan.
  3. Remove pan from heat and let sit 5 minutes. Then stir in each egg until incorporated. Dough will appear to break or become lumpy. Continue to stir until it forms a smooth, sticky dough.
  4. Fill a pastry bag fitted with a Wilton 1 M open star tip half full with batter (see notes below on filling pastry bags) and pipe 8″ long dough onto the sheet pan. I was able to fill two sheet pans with all the batter.
  5. Refrigerate dough at least 30 minutes and up to two days. Batter will stiffen the more it sits, so let the dough come to room temperature before frying. (Note below for frying immediately after making dough)
  6. Fill a dutch oven or deep frying pan with vegetable oil at least 2″ up the side of the pan (I found a 1/2 gallon of avocado oil worked for me in my large dutch oven. See note below about reusing oil.). Heat oil to 340-350°f, using a candy thermometer to keep the temperature constant. You may need to adjust heat up or down during cooking.
  7. Place churros 2-3 at a time in the cooking oil for 6 minutes, turning after 3 minutes with a spatula or spider. Wait until oil comes back to temperature before adding next batch.
  8. Using a spider or large spatula, remove churros from oil and drain on a cooling rack over parchment or on a paper towel. Wait at least a minute and then toss the churro in the cinnamon sugar, tapping off any excess.
  9. Place sugared churros on a cooling rack with parchment or a sheet pan underneath to catch drips and then drizzle maple glaze onto each churro. Immediately sprinkle with bacon bits so they adhere to glaze.
  10. Allow to cool slightly and enjoy!

Notes

  • Do not overfill your pastry bag! Fill in two to three batches. If there is too much dough, it will seep out the top and will be hard to pipe.
  • Slowly pipe out dough all of a consistent size, smaller spots on the churro can cause them to become more fragile while handling and can break in the oil or while coating in sugar.
  • Churro dough can be piped out onto parchment and covered in the fridge up to 48 hours.
  • If you want to make you churros immediately after making dough without the chilling time, once oil has reached temp, starting about one inch above the oil, pipe a small line of dough down into oil and either snip end with scissors, or break the dough off the pastry tip on the side of your pan. Follow directions above for frying.
  • Thicker churros will require a longer cooking time to fully cook through the center. Test one churro first to adjust your cooking time.
  • Cooking oil can be fine strained and stored again for another use. I strain back into the bottle it came from. Well strained oil can be stored in a cool, dry place and used up to several times.
  • Churros curling? That could be one of a few reasons. One is that it will naturally shrink and change shape as the dough hits the oil and puffs up. I found that the stiffer dough from sitting in the fridge resulted in straighter churros while fresher dough tending to curl more. Also, if you’re using a circular pot like a dutch oven, churros may rest against the inside edge of the pan while cooking causing them to take on the curved shape of the pan. To prevent this, nudge your churro with the spider or spatula immediately after placing in oil when it pops back up to the surface. Continue to nudge gently back and forth for about 20-40 seconds or until the dough has gotten stiff in the oil.

Keywords: churro, treat, maple, bacon

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