Let's Bake It! Vol 1
Niya Grier

Hello Everyone! Welcome to my very first blog post series called Let’s Bake it! Here on Let’s Bake it, I will be giving you all easy baked goods that you can make in your home with simple ingredients! You’ll definitely see a whole lot of different recipes throughout this blog, I hope you enjoy these as much as I do ;)!

 

Now our very first baked good that you can make is a personal favorite of mine, and it’s also very simple! It’s none other than Baked Churros! I know I know who bakes Churros?? But I can assure you that these are very delicious I have personally tried them myself and I ended up falling in love with it! Down below you can find the recipe along with the needed ingredients! Have fun baking!

Ingredients
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup unsalted butter DIVIDED – ONLY 1/2 CUP GOES IN DOUGH
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cinnamon
Instructions

 

Link to recipe: https://www.crazyforcrust.com/easy-baked-churros/

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line three cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.

  2. Place water, 1/2 cup butter (sliced into tablespoons), and salt in a large saucepan. Heat over medium heat until butter is melted and stir occasionally until mixture boils.

  3. Turn off the heat and stir in the flour. A thick paste will form. Make sure to do this off the heat and off the stove, so that the mixture can cool as you stir it.

  4. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition (work fast to avoid cooking the eggs). It'll seem like the eggs don't want to mix in but they will.

  5. Place the churro batter in a large pastry bag fitted with a star or 1M tip.

  6. Pipe churros in desired size and shapes onto cookie sheets. (This recipe makes approximately 60 3-inch long churros or 25 7-inch long churros.

  7. Spray the churros with nonstick cooking spray. This will help them brown.

  8. Bake for 20-30 minutes (depending on size), rotating pans as needed, until churros are baked through and lightly golden.

  9. Cool slightly, or until you can handle them.

  10. Melt remaining 1/2 cup butter in a medium size bowl. Mix sugar and cinnamon in another bowl. Dip the churros in the butter then roll in cinnamon sugar. Serve immediately with dipping sauce.

  11. To make chocolate ganache: place 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream and 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips in a microwave safe cup or bowl. Heat for 1 minute, then whisk until smooth.

To make caramel dipping sauce: place 20 unwrapped caramel squares and 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream in a microwave safe cup or bowl. Heat for 1 minute, then stir until smooth, reheating as needed. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon kosher or sea salt if desired.
 
BakingFact:

Chocolate chip cookies were a mistake.


A lucky mistake, but still, a mistake, according to Craftsy. They started as an attempt by a baker to make pure chocolate cookies by adding chopped chocolate, under the assumption that they’d melt afterwards. It didn’t quite work, but the bits of chocolate that didn’t melt turned out to be delicious. In fact, chocolate chips themselves didn’t exist until after this baking misadventure and were created because the cookie was popular.

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