How Our DIY Churros Kit Works

When kits arrive, instructions say to store in a cool, dry place until ready to cook. The shelf life is about 3 months. Inside each box are pastry bags and a closed star piping tip plus quality pantry ingredients: unbleached all purpose flour, sugar, cinnamon, unsweetened cocoa powder, cayenne chili powder, and ancho chili powder. Recipes and step by step instructions include a shopping list for a few fresh ingredients: 1 cup whole milk, ¼ cup vegetable oil + 2½ cups (or more) for frying, and ½ teaspoon salt. There is also a list of standard kitchen tools that will be used.

Video Master Class! Learn How to Make Churros with Chef Graciela

Each Churros Kit includes a web address (and QR code for phones) along with a password to access the video of Chef Graciela’s churros class. Meet the chef and learn how to make churros. You can watch her make her authentic hot dough from her Mexico City kitchen, as she shares her techniques and tricks. View the video before following the recipe, or cook along, whichever best suits your cooking style. Chef Graciela is executive chef of the renowned Aura Cocina Mexicana cooking school in Mexico City. She is passionate about Mexico's extraordinary food culture, as well as a fan of perfect churros. She is a graduate of Colegio Superior de Gastronomía and Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Graciela hosts "Tu Cocina," a popular TV Cooking Show that broadcasts weekly. “I am inspired by the beauty of Mexico, its history, traditions, legends, people, markets, ingredients, aromas, colors, and flavors.”

DIY Churros Kit—the Best Gift for Foodie Families

With our DIY Churros Kit, anyone can make authentic Mexican churros. This diy experience takes about 60–90 minutes. Gift recipients can build a party around creating 35 Mexican-style Churros with Chocolate Dip. Or make just enough for a snack each day (that’s how it’s done in Mexico!) and enjoy them fresh and warm. The perfect churro is crispy and sugary on the outside, soft and warm on the inside. Forming the churros is a fun activity to enjoy with children. Everyone can take turns squeezing out the churro dough from the pastry bag and making different churro shapes. From kneading the warm dough to rolling the churros in cinnamon sugar—start to finish, it’s a delicious DIY experience.

Eat Churros the Way They Do in Mexico City

While both the Portuguese and the Chinese are credited with inventing churros, the crunchy-cakey pastries arrived in Latin American by way of the Spanish in the 1500s. The local cacao and sugar cane created hot chocolate, something that is still paired with churros to this day. Embellished with local flavors, Churros in Mexico are a different taste experience from Spain’s pastries. In Mexico, cinnamon dusts the outside, and ground chile gives a pleasant bite to the Chocolate Dip. These authentic Mexican churros are often enjoyed as a late-afternoon snack or as a popular breakfast with Café con leche.