Recipes · inspired by the churro carts at every park
Cinnamon Sugar Churro Chips
Flour tortillas brushed with butter, tossed in cinnamon sugar and crisped in the air fryer or oven. All the churro flavor, no frying, about 15 minutes.
- Ready in
- 13 min
- Ingredients
- 5
- Makes
- about 32 chips
- Level
- easy
Real churros mean a pot of hot oil, which is not a weeknight thing for us. These chips give you the same warm cinnamon-sugar crunch in about a quarter of an hour, and kids can do almost all of it.
Tip: sprinkle any leftover cinnamon sugar over the chips as soon as they come out, while the butter is still warm, so it sticks.
Make it a learning moment: why do the chips turn golden? Heat makes sugar and the tortilla’s starches brown and change flavor. Compare one chip baked for 5 minutes with one baked for 9 and taste the difference.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Grown-up Heat the oven to 400°F (200°C), or the air fryer to 375°F (190°C).
- Kids Mix the sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl.
- Kids Brush both sides of each tortilla with melted butter, then cut each one into 8 triangles like a pizza (kitchen scissors are easiest).
- Kids Toss the triangles in the cinnamon sugar until they are coated.
- Grown-up Spread them out in one layer and bake 7 to 9 minutes (air fryer 5 to 6 minutes, shaking once) until golden and crisp.
- Kids Let them cool for 2 minutes. They get crunchier as they cool. Dip and enjoy.
