Churros con Chocolate

Okay, so my cousin is helping with a Spanish themed bridal shower brunch this weekend and was put in charge of bringing homemade churros.  One might ask why, but well, let's not.  Anyway, she asked if I would help with a dry run and I said sure.  The only thing I didn't have was a pastry bag and a star tip, as I don't decorate well anyway, why bother.  We decided that they would be fine if we just cut a hole in the corner of a plastic storage bag and made them round.  Sure enough, worked great.  The only really hard part of making these is making sure your oil is hot and to make sure you don't crowd the pan to keep the oil hot while frying.  Otherwise, these were delicious!  As a lessons learned, we think we could have made the hole in the plastic storage bag smaller, fried them to be a little darker golden, and perhaps serve them with some dulce de leche as well.  Yum!  I wish I was attending this bridal shower!

Ingredients

Churros

3/4 c. flour

3/4 c. water

1/4 c. butter

pinch of salt

2 eggs, beaten

cinnamon sugar

Chocolate Sauce

1 c. milk

2 t. corn starch

4 oz good quality dark chocolate, chopped

2 T. sugar

Directions

1. In a medium sauce pan, bring the water, butter, and salt to a boil.
2. Add the flour and stir vigorously.  The flour will come together to form a soft ball
3. Remove from the heat, and stir in eggs until you have a thick paste.  (This step takes a while, but get it into one good ball of dough.)
4. Heat oil (3/4" to 1") in a large skillet to 350 degrees.
5. Put the dough into a pastry bag with star tip or plastic bag with small hole cut in corner.  Squeeze out about 4-5 lengths of the churro into the hot oil.  Cook on each side until dark golden brown.
6. Remove from hot pan, to a plate with paper towels and quickly transfer into a plate of cinnamon sugar.  Toss to coat with sugar
7. Repeat steps 4-6 until all churros have been made.
8. Mix 1/2 c. milk  and chocolate to a small sauce pan and heat over low to medium low heat to melt chocolate.
9. In a small glass, mix the other 1/2 c. milk with corn starch and sugar.
10. Once the chocolate has fully melted, add the cornstarch mixture to the chocolate.  Heat until the mixture thickens.
11. Serve the churros with a small bowl of the choclate and enjoy!