My favorite fair food is a churro. I don't even like the chocolate dipping sauce - just give me the churro and I will be the happiest girl ever. I have tried to make churros at home, but so far my attempts have not come out very great... stay tuned on that one...
Anywho, in one of my frequent churro craving episodes, I thought to myself, "Self, there has to be an easier recipe that can still give me that churro fix without having to pull out the dreaded piping bag...wouldn't it be great if there was a churro cookie or bar?" So off I went, looking into the bowels of the internet to see if there have been any like-minded bakers who have already accomplished this task for me. I found lots of cinnamon sugar things and snicker doodles, but nothing really obtainable that had that churro essence. Then I found a cinnamon sugar blondie recipe that I figured would get me 77% of the way there with a little tweaking. So I added a little more cinnamon and under baked it slightly to get that churro texture, and I think we have a winner!
Servings: 12
Prep Time: 20 min
Total Time: 40 min
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter (1 stick), melted
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup flour
Pinch of salt
5 tsp sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9x13 baking dish.
In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter and brown sugar. Reduce speed to low and add in the egg, vanilla, flour, and salt. Mix until well combined.
Pour batter into prepared baking dish and spread evenly. Now, for an important part, allow batter to sit in the pan at room temperature away from heat for 15 minutes. This helps create a little crust around the edges that are indicative or a churro texture.
Mix cinnamon and sugar in a bowl, then sprinkle the cinnamon sugar evenly over the top of the batter.
Bake for 20 minutes. If you stick a toothpick in the blondies when you pull it out of the oven and it comes out mostly clean, you have achieved optimal churro-ness. If the toothpick comes out completely clean, then your blondies are slightly over baked - this doesn't mean they are ruined, however, just that you won't have the crispy outside and soft center texture of a churro.
Enjoy!
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