Breakfast just got better with a 20 minute nostalgic fair-style cinnamon-sugar churro turned to a crispy Chocolate Churro Waffles. Yeah! Starting Monday with an eggless, crispy, churro Waffles for breakfast with cup of hot chai tea!
Oh - and guess what? These churro waffles come together so fast, I never have to think twice before making a batch!
Chocolate churro recipe is my re-take on eating churros crisped without fryer in the metal plates of my iron waffle.. this time I made them with chocolate.
Why Chocolate? Well, if you like churros (of course you do ;) ) .... I bet you know how much a chocolate sauce compliments a crispy Mexican churro?! So I thought why not combine this killer churro-chocolate duo into the churro batter to unit them for ever! (so romantic! and valentine's day is long gone ;))
Actually best way to eat churro is: hold in hand and munch away! Total street-fair style! But it won't be that nice to make both hand busy, one holding chocolate and one churro! Hence? Chocolate Churro!
I clearly remember, when I shared the first churro waffle with you.... Everyone loved it so much... a few nice people even took time to right to me about how much they enjoyed eating those eggless waffles. I can totally understand their response since these churro waffles taste additively delicious! For me, breakfast can not get better than this!
Two metal plates of Waffle Iron make churro dough extra crispy... yet leave the center moist, warm and so scrumptious! Being a churro fan yet looking for a non-fried version... I had full plans of baking the churros that day. Only one though hold me bake. Churro dough is just like choux pastry dough (minus eggs) which is used to make cream puffs. I was skeptical if churro dough will bake and get crispy or will puff up like a cream puff! So my waffle iron sounded just the right tool to make churro crispy without oil. The baked version is still waiting in my to-do list.
PS: Using small dough-ball for each waffle makes free-form edges of these churro waffles. Note that neat yet I think, in homemade waffles its okay?! :)
btw, is it safe to call'em "Choco Chaffles"?!
Even though these churro look chocolaty delicious... I must tell you that I have only used raw cocoa powder for the chocolate part of churros. You are more than welcome to use regular chocolate (melted) or even Mexican chocolate too. Just mix it after mixing flour into the butter and water.
I always have raw cocoa powder handy at home to add in smoothies. So mostly I use cocoa powder instead of chocolate block in lot of my chocolate recipes until if I have planned a recipe which needs buttery chocolate. If you have Hershey's Unsweetened Cocoa at home, you can use that too.
Other than chocolate, basic churro recipe is just mix of 5 simple ingredients, good old AP flour, butter, sugar, cinnamon, and salt! (and no eggs like street churros) Eggless churros are far more light than street churros. So please never add eggs to churros.
Picture below is a proof! Such airy texture and no eggs! Just simple ingredients and good friend - Waffle Iron! How good does that look?
Toppings!? Ah! That's tough one! I'm such a "churro" fan that I would eat one just slathered in cinnamon sugar without any topping.
If you serving this for Sunday brunch or treating your mother for a surprise Mother's Day Brunch? I would say please don't skip toppings. Nothing too fancy... Just a dollop of sweet whipped cream with fresh chopped strawberries will make "Chocolate Churro" a delicious breakfast or a buttery sweet finish to a delicious Brunch!
I can tell you it has qualities to impress even tough critics. (Mothers and Kids alike!) I haven't added chocolate in these churros and strawberries in whipped cream, for nothing. ;-)
Every time..... I meant, EVERY time, my drooling love for Churros triggers just when I cut open waffle... in attempt to take few more clicks.
This time was no different. I took few clicks and chocolate churros just vanished from plate along with strawberry cream. Luckily, this time I had made a big churro batch, so I saved few for Vishal. :)
I hope I'm starting your week with a delicious yet healthier frying-free egg-less breakfast. Bookmark this recipe to give it a try coming weekend.
Enjoy the week ahead! -Savita
