- Hey!
- Hi, wait. - Wait what?
- Hey! - Hey!
- That was good. - Okay great.
- We're back, it's Katie
and this is my husband Chris. - Hi.
- So I'm very excited because Disney has been releasing
some of their most famous recipes.
- That's exciting.
- Including (hands tapping)
the churro! - Oooh!
(laughing)
- Whoa!
Guys, I love churros.
(laughs)
- The churros at Disneyland are just so perfect.
They're crunchy,
they're sweet. - They're really good.
- So I'm gonna test this recipe
and Chris you can be the taste tester
and we can see if it actually tastes like the park churro.
- I'm very excited.
I am sure they're gonna be great.
- Also my friend Jasmine on the Bring Me channel
is testing out some of these recipes as well
so go check her out.
I'm gonna get started.
I'll bring you back in and we can do a taste test.
- Now arriving, Snack Town, USA.
- Where all the snacks are. - Maybe!
(laughs)
(bouncy piano music)
- All right so I have everything together,
I'm ready to test this churro.
Something to note is I was reading the recipe
and it says it was inspired by the Disney Park churro
which could mean that this isn't exactly
what they do at the parks.
It's also churro bites, not the long churro.
Kind of disappointing but maybe the taste
will just be like, so amazing it won't matter.
Let's dive in and see how this goes.
First thing we're gonna do is put our pan
over medium-high heat,
and then we're gonna combine water,
eight tablespoons of butter,
a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon,
and a quarter teaspoon of salt, combine this.
Once your butter has melted you're gonna wait
'til it gets to a rolling boil
and then you're gonna turn it down to low.
Once it's low we're gonna combine
a cup and a quarter of flour
and mix that together until it becomes a ball.
I think that looks like a ball.
Turn the heat off and the recipe says
to let it rest for five to seven minutes.
All right, my dough's been resting
for about seven minutes.
It's cool to the touch now.
So I'm gonna add in these eggs one by one.
Mix that one egg in there until it's fully incorporated
and then you'll move on to the next one.
Basically what the churro dough is is a choux pastry
that we're then gonna fry.
And a choux pastry is very simple.
You use it in like cream puffs or a Croquembouche.
That's a big fancy French dessert.
Rie has made it.
But it's the same kind of base for the dough.
We're adding eggs because that's gonna bring
structure to this dough
and also give it a nice, rich flavor.
Okay, that was a workout.
Next, we're gonna add a cup and a half of oil.
Heat this up to 350 degrees over medium-high heat.
So while this is coming up to temperature
I'm gonna put the dough in a piping bag
and I'm using a rather large, open star tip.
But if you only have a gallon plastic bag
you can just cut the corner of that
and that can be your piping bag.
Whatever works, that's what I always say.
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The next step Disney tells you to do a little later
but I'm gonna do it right now.
So over to my left I have a baking pan
with paper towels, and that's so I can put
the churros on it to sop up some of the oil
after they've been fried.
And I'm also gonna mix my sugar
and my cinnamon right next to it.
All right, and I'm all done with my sugar.
So now, the recipe says to pipe in one inch churros
and then use a knife to cut them off the ends.
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And just make sure you roll them over
so that they are all getting kind of evenly coated.
I feel like this is all that I can manage
at a time right now, is about six in the pan.
Could maybe get a few more
but its stressed me out too much
to have any more churros than that in here.
These guys look good.
Let's get them outta the oil.
We'll just set them down,
and we're gonna coat 'em in cinnamon-sugar.
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Okay, these are looking delicious
and I'm just gonna give one a try
before we even call Chris.
(churro crunches)
Mm, these are really yummy
but they don't taste like the park's.
I feel like there's something missing on the inside.
The outside is sweet and crunchy and perfect
but the inside is definitely missing something.
(phone line rings)
- Hi! - Hi.
I'm calling 'cause I made the Disney recipe
and I know that you make churros like all the time
and I'm wondering what goes inside your pastry?
- Flour, water, probably some sugar.
- Sugar!
- You put sugar in yours? - Yeah.
Is this all being recorded right now?
- Yep. - Like you're gonna edit
this out?
- It's not live TV, I'm just calling you.
(child screams through the phone)
- I definitely think you need a little sugar.
About two tablespoons.
- I think that you've helped solve the missing element.
- [Child] Bye!
- Bye, I miss you!
- Say "I love you."
- [Child] I know!
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- I really think adding some sugar to this recipe
is gonna make a huge difference.
And if it doesn't then at least I did all the work
and you guys didn't have to.
So we'll find out.
So I'm basically gonna do everything I did before.
And I'm gonna add those two tablespoons of sugar
to really help make this dough fabulous.
All right our piping bag is ready to go
and the next thing I'm going to change
is the size of the churro.
I totally get why they did the little bites.
It's perfect, it's super practical for being at home
but I am not being practical today.
I am trying to create magic.
I wanna feel like I'm at Disneyland!
So instead I'm gonna pipe them onto this pan,
freeze them so I can just pick them up
and plop them in the frying oil.
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I think they look pretty good.
Some are straighter than others
but they look all right.
Like this guy, he looks good.
He's the hero.
I'm gonna go put these in the freezer
and we'll be back to heat up the oil.
(pan clangs) Wow.
Now I know not everyone has a pan this huge,
so if you don't you can always try
baking your churros in the oven.
So we're gonna add two and a half cups of oil to the pan.
All right our oil is at 350.
(pans clang) Woo!
And our churros have frozen up.
So I'm gonna gently pick them up and set them in.
It just fits across.
We might only be able to do one or two at a time.
If these can be held by hand like they do at Disney
that will be a triumph,
but I'm afraid that they're gonna flop.
And if you're doing this at home ever
and they're getting too brown too quick
you can always finish them up in the oven
so that they don't burn in the oil.
Grab this guy, set him down.
Right, that guy broke.
We'll let that cool down for a second here.
And once it's cooled a little bit
we're gonna move it onto our cinnamon sugar
and coat that all over.
Since the freeze method only worked so well
I'm gonna try to pipe some of these directly
into the frying pan.
I have some left over, I might as well.
(upbeat music)
Honestly, the ones that I've piped out
into the frying oil look better than the ones I froze.
The ones I froze got thin and kinda lost their luster.
Okay, ooh.
(gasps)
It's staying together while I'm holding it.
Chris, it's time to test some churros.
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- It looks awesome, I'm very excited
of what I'm seeing here.
- [Katie] You're probably also very confused.
- [Chris] I'm a little confused, yeah.
There's multiple churro options here.
- [Katie The one on the left
is the churro bite recipe Disney released.
It's tiny, it's practical.
And the one on the right are the experimental ones
where I was trying to get that classic Disney look
and I changed one thing in the recipe.
- I eat these all at once, right?
- You just, Scooby-Doo style.
- It is slightly different though.
- Than the park, it's not exactly like the park.
- It's not, but they're really good.
They are really good. - They're still very good.
Let's try the second version,
Disney Style. - Oh wow, thank you so much.
Now this feels like I'm at a theme park.
(upbeat music)
So this one definitely tastes closer.
- The secret ingredient was sugar, I added sugar.
(laughs)
- The secret ingredient was more sugar?
- It doesn't taste like the park though.
They still have not revealed all of their magic,
they're keeping some secrets.
- Disney you need to release the real recipe.
- Release the real recipe! - Release the recipe!
(laughs)
- Splash Mountain pose
when you go down! - Oh!
(screams)
- Mm, churros. - Mm, churros!
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(camera clicks)
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