10 Delicious Plant-Based Churro Recipes

No matter where you’re from around the world, chances are you’ve had the pleasure of trying this magical treat. Crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and dipped in chocolate, churros are so perfectly delicious. These 10 vegan churro recipes will win over your heart and your stomach!

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1. Churros With Lime Sugar and Caramel Sauce

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No matter where you’re from in the world, chances are you’ve had the pleasure of going to a fair, a theme park, or a festival and shoved your face with churros. This magical treat is crispy, fluffy, and oh-so-perfectly delicious. Traditional Churros are served with cinnamon sugar and chocolate sauce. But today, we’re skipping the tradition and creating a recipe for Churros With Lime Sugar and Caramel Sauce by Trine Rask. Oooooh, yes.

2. Spanish Churros

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Want to make the most delicious Spanish churros at home? Try this recipe by Mireille Aikman! Crunchy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. Best vegan churros ever! They are great for dessert or breakfast. Your family will love the sweet addition to your breakfast spread. Sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and dipped in chocolate sauce, these vegan churros will win over your heart (and your stomach). Have fun!

3. Cinnamon Churros With Chocolate Ganache

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You can now enjoy one of your favorite street foods from the comfort of your kitchen! These churros can be enjoyed with a divinely rich dark chocolate ganache that makes the treat all that much more indulgent. These Cinnamon Churros With Chocolate Ganache by Holly Jade would be great served at a party, summer BBQ, events … anything. So what are you waiting for?

4. Easy Churros

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This easy vegan churro recipe by Mitch and Justine Chapman is everything you’ve been craving and more.

5. Churros With Coconut Sugar and Chilli Chocolate Sauce

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Clémence Moulaert makes no claims that this recipe is healthy – because a) vegan food does not necessarily equal healthy and b) coconut sugar is still sugar – she only claims that you should try this recipe for Churros With Coconut Sugar and Chilli Chocolate Sauce before you die.

6. Mini Baked Pumpkin Churros With Maple Chocolate Sauce

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These mini baked pumpkin churros by Jasmine Briones are rolled in cinnamon sugar and paired with a maple chocolate sauce for dipping. They’re the perfect sweet treat for fall gatherings, or whenever… Since they’re baked, not fried, they have more of a cake-like texture but they’re still 100 percent delicious.

7. Lime-Sugar Churros With Caramel Sauce

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If you’ve ever been to a festival, carnival, or fair, the chances are you’ve seen or even got the chance to taste, the magical treat that is a churro. While most churros are enveloped in sugary, cinnamon crystals, this recipe for Lime-Sugar Churros With Caramel Sauce by Trine Rask puts a twist on the traditional churro flavor and replaces the cinnamon with a tangy lime sugar. The usual chocolate dip that accompanies fluffy churros is also traded in for a coconut-milk-based caramel sauce. Yum!

8. Chocolate Chip Churro Cheesecake Pop Tarts

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No pop tart could ever stand up to these Chocolate Chip Churro Cheesecake Pop Tarts by Tori Cooper. They’re perfectly flaky on the pastry part, the filling is creamy and cheesecakey (not to mention studded with tons of chocolate chips!), then they’re covered with all the cinnamon/sugar goodness of a churro and drizzled in a little icing for cosmetic appeal and good measure. You know you need these in your life.

9. Churro Flavored Cheesecake Cups

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Two of your favorite desserts in one cup, it doesn’t get much better than these Churro Flavored Cheesecake Cups by Sophia DeSantis. Taste the sweet cinnamon flavors melting with the creamy cheesecake and you may not come up for air!

10. Maple Ice Cream with Cinnamon Crisps

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This recipe for Maple Ice Cream with Cinnamon Crisps by Ashley Smyczek is so tasty! The coconut milk maple ice cream is the perfect dip for the sweet cinnamon tortilla chips. Plus, it’s quite easy to make!

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