Inside: With our “secret” shortcut, this is the easiest churros recipe you’ll ever make!
The Easiest Churros Recipe You’ll Ever Make
There’s hardly anything tastier than a fresh fried churro dusted with cinnamon sugar! It’s one of our favorite treats to get at the rodeo or the renaissance festival here in Texas!
However, it takes a little finesse to re-create those classic carnival style churros at home. That’s why we created this super easy “cheater” churros recipe — so you can enjoy the same flavors of that classic Mexican dessert without all the fuss.
So what’s our top secret shortcut?
I’ll give you a little hint…
…it comes in a can and it pops when you open it!
If you guessed biscuit dough, you got it!
We love to use biscuit dough to make our favorite desserts and comfort food recipes in a fraction of the time, like our Air Fryer Rainbow Donuts.
Keep reading to see how we use our biscuit dough hack to make melt-in-your mouth cinnamon sugar fried churros!
“Secret” Shortcut Churros Ingredients
- 1 package biscuit dough
- 2 Tablespoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3-4 cups vegetable or peanut oil, for frying
Tip: Serve our cinnamon sugar churros with this “magic” 2-ingredient white chocolate coconut oil frosting!
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How to Make Easy Cinnamon Sugar Churros
Keep reading for photo step-by-step instructions; free printable copy of this churros recipe is available at the bottom of the post.
Pour cooking oil into a large pot over medium heat as you prepare the biscuits. Oil is ready to fry when it is between 350 and 375°F.
While oil heats, use a pizza cutter to slice each dough biscuit into 4-5 strips.
Whisk together cinnamon and sugar in a mixing bowl and set aside.
Fry each biscuit strip for about 30 seconds, flip and then continue cooking until golden brown.
Immediately roll the fried biscuits in the cinnamon sugar to coat.
Repeat with all biscuit strips until done.
Best enjoyed warm.
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Hands-down the easiest fried churros recipe you'll ever make!
Ingredients
- 1 package biscuit dough
- 2 Tablespoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3-4 cups vegetable or peanut oil, for frying
Instructions
- Place the oil in a large pot big enough to fry the churros in. Place over medium heat as you prepare the biscuits.
- Use a pizza cutter to slice the biscuit dough into 4-5 strips each.
- Mix the sugar and cinnamon together and set aside.
- Fry each biscuit strip for about 30 seconds, flip and then cook until golden brown.
- Immediately roll the fried biscuits in the cinnamon sugar to coat.
- Repeat with all biscuit strips until done.
- Serve warm.
More of our favorite carnival treats you can make at home:
Restaurant Style Fried Pickle Spears
[…] PS- We also used our biscuit dough shortcut for our Easy Fried Churros Recipe! […]