Heart Churros with Nutella and Mascarpone Dipping Sauces

heart shaped churros stacked on a plate with pink flowers

Heart Churros with Nutella and Mascarpone Dipping Sauces

These churros are the perfect Valentine's day treat! Traditional churros are made into heart shapes, and accompanied by two dipping sauces: nutella and vanilla mascarpone. They're bound to be a hit at your Valentine's day gathering!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Mexican

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1

Servings churros

Calories 571kcal

Author Pina Bresciani

Ingredients

Vanilla Mascarpone Dipping Sauce:

¼ cup mascarpone cheese
4 tablespoon whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoon powdered sugar

Nutella Dipping Sauce:

⅓ cup nutella

For the churros:

2 cups water
5 tablespoon white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 quarts + 4tbsp canola oil
2 cups all purpose flour
¾ cups sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon

Instructions

Make the Vanilla Mascarpone Dipping Sauce:

In a small saucepan on medium heat, combine mascarpone, whipping cream and vanilla extract. Let them melt together until there are no more clumps.
Add the powdered sugar and stir. Make sure powdered sugar is completely dissolved into the mixture. Set aside.

Make the Nutella dipping sauce

Place the nutella in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave for about 1 minute. Set aside.

Make the Heart Churros:

In a medium size saucepan over medium heat, combine water, sugar, salt and 4 tablespoon canola oil. Bring to a boil and remove from heat.
Stir in flour until a ball of dough forms. Let dough cool slightly so that you don't burn yourself when piping the churros.
Place dough in piping bag fitted with a metal tip.
To make the heart shape: pipe two strips of dough. Form them together to make a heart shape, ensuring to pinch the adjoining points together so that they stay together when frying.
Heat oil for frying in a deep skillet. Once oil is hot enough to fry, place heart churro on a large spatula (touch up the shape if needed). Place spatula with churro in oil. Once churro starts frying, it will be easy to remove the spatula.
Fry until churros are golden brown. Remove with spatula and drain on paper towel.
Repeat this process for all churros. Depending on the size of your pan, you will be able to fry multiple churros at once.
In a bowl or dish, combine sugar and cinnamon. Coat churros in mixture.
Serve with dipping sauces, and enjoy!

Notes

I recommend to prepare the dipping sauces before the churros so you can eat the churros soon after you make them, warm!
The dipping sauces may thicken while the churros are frying, so to soften them up again, just heat in the microwave for approximately 30 seconds.
To get a good heart churro size, the strips you pipe from the pastry bag should be 6-8 inches long.
Make sure to pinch the adjoining points of the heart together so that it stays together when frying

The churro recipe is based on this recipe.

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