We recently watched a YouTube video featuring dessert recipes. I thought I would give making churros a shot. I mixed milk, water, salt, and oil and brought the mixture to 190 degrees. I then added flour and stirred it together to form a paste. As I was stirring, I suddenly began to feel as if I might faint. Chris finished the stirring for me and put the dough in a storage bag while I lay down.
Today I piped the dough onto a parchment-covered sheet tray. I intended to make a few for us to enjoy now and then freeze the rest for later. I’m not sure what happened, but when I fried the churros, they disintegrated into nothing. I attempted a second time with hotter oil, at Chris’s suggestion, with the same result.
My failure disheartened me. I am not sure if it was a bad recipe, if there were details to the formula not included in the video, or if refrigerating the dough overnight caused the problem.
Once upon a time, this failure would have led me to believe that I was a failure. Now I look at it as a part of the learning process. Not every attempt in the kitchen is going to work out.
Since I found this recipe, I watched an episode of Cook’s Country, where they shared a recipe for churros that was very different from the one I used. Maybe I’ll see how that one works out.
On the positive side, in the YouTube video, they filled the churros with a “butterscotch” made from simmering a can of sweetened condensed milk in a pot of water for two hours. Chris has done this before, but this time experimented with sweetened condensed coconut milk. It made a delightfully sweet, thickened wonderfulness. He dropped some chocolate chips in the mixture for a wonderful treat.
Disintegrating Churros. Mega-bummer of a food; great name for a garage band. 😉
I hope you’re feeling better!
Good luck next time – keep at it. I will say I tried making homemade sourdough probably 20 times this summer, no joke and finally got it right. Hoping you hit it on #2~
Wow the butterscotch sounds good. I never thought about making homemade churros. What a great idea. I am going to have to try. Good luck on your next batch.
I am so sorry it did not work out. Definitely try a different recipe.
I suspect these would be hard to make. A churro does sound good though!
These seem like they would be a bit difficult to make but are so good! At least you gave it a try. Hope you find another recipe with a better outcome.
There are some foods that just look too complicated to make. I’ll leave that to the professionals!
I am definitely on team Buy Churros … but mostly because that type of recipe and I don’t usually get along! Good luck next time!
Oh no! Hey, mistakes are proof you were trying, right? Next time!
I have heard these are very hard to make!
Sorry for your kitchen challenge but I love to write about how things do and don’t work. its the reality of cooking and baking and just life. So I appreciate you sharing this. I love Cook’s Country and find them to be very helpful. So yes, give that recipe a try! I have had to do recipes over (and over) several times before I feel like I am pleased. Go for it!