Churro Bars
When it comes to Churro Bars, these are perfect for Cinco De Mayo! All you need are a few easy ingredients to get started and you’re going to love the easy to create flavor combinations!
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Churros are simple and wonderful desserts are baked to golden brown perfection. If you’re craving that churro taste, this is literally the perfect dessert!
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Why You’ll Love This Classic Dessert
- Made with simple ingredients
- Excellent snack bars for a grab and go treat
- The texture of the cheesecake layer paired with the sweet cinnamon toppings is divine.
Ingredients Needed
- Butter – Unsalted
- Brown Sugar – Light
- Eggs– Large
- Extract– Pure Vanilla – Elevates the sensory experience and brings a touch of luxury to any dish.
- Baking powder
- Kosher salt
- Flour – All purpose
- Sugar – White, granulated
- Ground cinnamon
Substitutions and Additions
Drizzle with white chocolate – This delightful approach adds a touch of sweetness to enhance the experience!
Layer in a pie crust – if you have a pie crust that you don’t have to worry about making or baking, that can be a fun addition to this recipe to give it some crunch!
How to Make Churro Bars (step-by-step)
The complete list of ingredients, quantities, and instructions can be found in the printable recipe card below.
- In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, melt butter and bring to a boil. Stir butter or swirl the pan continuously until it reaches an amber color.
- Remove from heat and allow butter to cool for 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 ℉ degrees.
- Line a 9×13-inch baking dish with foil and coat with non-stick spray. Set aside.
- Mix butter and brown sugar in a large bowl and stir to combine.
- Add eggs, vanilla, baking powder, and salt and stir until smooth.
- Finally, add in flour and mix until just incorporated. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk granulated sugar and ground cinnamon together.
- Sprinkle half of the cinnamon sugar evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan. Press dough on top of cinnamon sugar. (Photo 1)
- Sprinkle remaining cinnamon sugar on top and bake for 25-30 minutes or until edges are lightly golden. (Photo 2)
- Place the pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
Storing Leftovers
Due to the cheesecake mixture, the perfect way to store these easy churro cheesecake bars is to store them in an airtight container and keep them nice and cool in the fridge.
Tips
Make sure that you use an electric mixer when making in the medium bowl ( a stand mixer is totally fine, too!) One of the best things about this recipe is that you want to have a smooth texture on these cinnamon treats.
Don’t be scared to have fun and add toppings! The top of the filling is sweet with the remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture but you can always add on another tbsp cinnamon or even sprinkle with some chocolate chips.
Churro Bars FAQs
You can but in my opinion, this delicious cinnamon dessert is best served fresh.
It’s like a combination of sugar and cinnamon with a crunch! There’s nothing quite like it!
If all you have is salted butter, omit adding any extra salt anywhere else in the recipe.
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Churro Bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup (227 g) sweet cream butter unsalted
- 2 cups (440 g) light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1½ tsp (1 ½ tsp) baking powder
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 2½ cups (312 ½ g) flour
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, melt butter and bring to a boil. Stir butter, or swirl pan continuously until it reaches an amber color.
- Remove from heat and allow butter to cool for 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 ℉ degrees.
- Line a 9×13-inch baking dish with foil and coat with non-stick spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl combine butter and brown sugar and stir to combine.
- Add eggs, vanilla, baking powder, and salt and stir until smooth.
- Finally, add in flour and mix until just incorporated. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk brown sugar and ground cinnamon together.
- Sprinkle half of cinnamon sugar evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan.
- Press dough on top of cinnamon sugar.
- Sprinkle remaining cinnamon sugar on top and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until edges are lightly golden.
- Place the pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Once cooled, use the foil to remove bars from the pan and cut into pieces.
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