Vegan Churros with Ancho Chili Chocolate Sauce
Cooking Time
Prep Time30 minutes
DifficultyMedium
Servings12

Cinnamon Sugar
- 110 grams cane sugar
- 10 grams ground cinnamon
Chocolate Sauce
- 115 millilitres coconut milk
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15 grams Flora Plant B+tter Unsalted
- 60 grams dairy free chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon ancho chile powder
Churro
- vegetable oil for frying
- 10 grams flaxseeds
- 280 millilitres water
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50 grams Flora Plant B+tter Unsalted
- 20 grams cane sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 130 grams all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cinnamon Sugar
- Combine sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
Chocolate Sauce
- Combine chocolate, vanilla and ancho chile powder in small bowl.
- Heat coconut milk and Flora Plant B+tter in small saucepan until bubbling.
- Pour coconut milk mixture over chocolate and stir until melted. Keep warm.
Churros
- Heat about 1-1/2 inches vegetable oil in large pot or deep skillet over medium-high heat to 360 degrees.
- While oil is heating, combine flaxseeds with 50 ml of water; set aside.
- Add remaining water, butter and sugar to medium saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Add flour, reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring constantly, about 3 minutes or until mixture comes together and is smooth.
- Transfer mixture to large bowl and cool 5 minutes. Add flax meal mixture and vanilla and beat with electric mixture on low speed about 2 minutes or until mixture comes together and is smooth.
- Transfer dough to 16-inch piping bag fitted with a large star tip. Use a star tip about 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide. Carefully pipe mixture into hot oil into about 6-inch in length; cut ends with scissor. Fry 3 to 4 churros at one time. Don't overcrowd the pot or it will drop the temperature and the churros will stick together.
- Fry about 2 minutes per side, until golden brown. Transfer to paper towels to dry briefly then transfer to cinnamon sugar mixture and roll to coat.
- Repeat process with remaining dough. Serve warm with chocolate sauce.
A thinner star tip will give a crisper churro. The number of churros will vary with the size of the star tip and the length of the churro.
If you don't want to pipe the churros directly into the oil, you can pipe them onto parchment then gently transfer them to the oil.
Churros will naturally curl when cooking. For straight churros, pipe onto parchment then freeze for 30 minutes before adding to the oil.

