These Air Fryer Churros have all the sweet crunch of traditional churros without the oily mess! Top them off with some cinnamon sugar and you’ll feel like you’re at the fair!
Air Fryer Churro Recipe
My very favorite fair food is a warm churro! Does it get any better than warm fried dough dipped in cinnamon and sugar?
Making churros at home is so much fun, but it can be messy and greasy with all that oil. Air fryer churros to the rescue!
Air fryer churros are crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside, and so delicious. They taste amazing on their own, but they’re even better with my simple chocolate sauce or gooey caramel sauce!
Grab your air fryer and bring the fair to your home with this tasty treat!
Air Fryer Churros Recipe
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Makes: 24 small churros
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 6-8 minutes
Total time: about 25 minutes
Ingredients for Air Fryer Churros
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup butter, unsalted
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
For Coating
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
For Serving
- Chocolate sauce
- Caramel sauce
You’ll also want to have the following tools to make it easier:
How to Make this Air Fryer Churros Recipe
- First, preheat your air fryer to 375 degrees.
- To make your churro dough, start by cutting up the butter into tablespoons. Then, add it to a medium-sized saucepan along with the water, milk, and sugar.
- Cook the mixture over medium heat and stir frequently until it reaches a boil.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the flour. It’s easiest to use a wooden spoon to make sure it gets fully incorporated!
- Put the saucepan back over the heat and continue stirring for about 2 minutes or until the mixture starts to come together into a smooth ball.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat again and transfer the dough into a large mixing bowl.
- Using an electric mixture, beat the dough for a couple of minutes to release some of the heat.
- In a separate small bowl, whisk together the eggs and the vanilla.
- Add the egg mixture to the dough a little at a time, using the electric mixer to beat the dough after each addition. Make sure you scrape the bowl to make sure everything gets incorporated!
- Grab a pastry bag and add an open star decorating tip (#1M). Add the dough to the pastry bag, making sure not to overfill.
- Using kitchen scissors, pipe the dough directly into the air fryer basket, cutting the dough at about 3-inch lengths.
- Cook the churros in the preheated air fryer for about 6-8 minutes until they are golden brown.
- While they cook, you can mix together the sugar and cinnamon in a medium-sized bowl so your topping is ready to go.
- Remove the cooked churros from the air fryer and immediately add them to the cinnamon and sugar mixture to coat completely.
- Move the churros to a baking rack to cool for a few minutes.
- Serve up your yummy churros with chocolate sauce or caramel sauce.
Tips Tricks and FAQs
- Make sure that you don’t overfill your pastry bag before squeezing out your churros! If the bag is too full, the churro dough may fall out the back and go to waste. It’s best to fill the pastry bag about halfway full. That way you’ll have perfect control as you pipe out your churros. You can always refill it if your bag isn’t large enough!
Can I use something else if I don’t have a pastry bag?
If you don’t have a pastry bag, a Ziploc bag always works great! Just snip the corner of it with scissors and use a pastry tip and you are good to go!
You’ll want to make sure that you get a more heavy-duty Ziploc bag to hold up to this warm dough.
Storage
Serving churros right away is always a good idea because they are best hot! If you aren’t able to eat them all, though, you can store them in an airtight container or bag for up to 2 days.
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Air Fryer Churros
These Air Fryer Churros have all the sweet crunch of traditional churros without the oily mess! Top them off with some cinnamon sugar and you’ll feel like you’re at the fair!
Ingredients
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup butter, unsalted
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- For Coating
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- For Serving
- Chocolate sauce
- Caramel sauce
Instructions
- First, preheat your air fryer to 375 degrees.
- To make your churro dough, start by cutting up the butter into tablespoons. Then, add it to a medium-sized saucepan along with the water, milk, and sugar.
- Cook the mixture over medium heat and stir frequently until it reaches a boil.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the flour. It’s easiest to use a wooden spoon to make sure it gets fully incorporated!
- Put the saucepan back over the heat and continue stirring for about 2 minutes or until the mixture starts to come together into a smooth ball.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat again and transfer the dough into a large mixing bowl.
- Using an electric mixture, beat the dough for a couple of minutes to release some of the heat.
- In a separate small bowl, whisk together the eggs and the vanilla.
- Add the egg mixture to the dough a little at a time, using the electric mixer to beat the dough after each addition. Make sure you scrape the bowl to make sure everything gets incorporated!
- Grab a pastry bag and add an open star decorating tip (#1M). Add the dough to the pastry bag, making sure not to overfill.
- Using kitchen scissors, pipe the dough directly into the air fryer basket, cutting the dough at about 3-inch lengths.
- Cook the churros in the preheated air fryer for about 6-8 minutes until they are golden brown.
- While they cook, you can mix together the sugar and cinnamon in a medium-sized bowl so your topping is ready to go.
- Remove the cooked churros from the air fryer and immediately add them to the cinnamon and sugar mixture to coat completely.
- Move the churros to a baking rack to cool for a few minutes.
- Serve up your yummy churros with chocolate sauce or caramel sauce.
Michele is a Family Life Educator with her degree in Marriage and Family Studies. She specializes in helping blended families be successful as well as ways to strengthen the overall family dynamic through easy recipes, fun games, parenting, and marriage pointers to build a strong family unit.
This is timely as I just received our new airfryer that we ordered online. Would love to try making churros. Thank you for sharing this recipe. Looks easy to make and delicious. I know my kids would be excited with this.
They were so delicious!! But they became “chubby” churros since they blew up like balloons in the air fryer…any suggestions why this happened??
Hey Emily! I’m so glad you liked these! It sounds like you got too much air in the batter. Try not to overmix just incorporate and you should be good! Thanks again!
Oh wow, this looks yummy. I’m excited to try it out.
I love churros, but have never tried to make them before. This sounds like a fun idea!
I wish you could see how excited I am to see that I have every single ingredient to make these today!!!!
Oh my goodness these look delicious and I definitely need to try!
I have been using my air fryer like crazy! I didn’t know I could make churros in it! Trying this!
These look delicious. Now to get an air fryer.
My family loves churros and this is such an awesome recipe.