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I was in a bit of a baking slump when I stumble upon this recipe. It looked very easy, required only a few ingredients and looked delicious. I pinned the recipe and not much later I decided to give it a try as I had all the ingredients at home. This is a perfect recipe for when you are craving something sweet, but don’t want to stand in the kitchen too long. We affectionately call them Twisties.
The original recipe called them churros, but I have eaten churros and they are delicious, but these taste nothing like churros. So I made up my own name for the recipe and tweaked the measurements a bit.
This recipe is based on Inspiration Kitchen her Baked Cinnamon Sugar Churros Recipe
Ingredients
- Puff Pastry – 6 small squares
- Butter – 50 gram/ 3.5 tablespoons
- Sugar – 40 gram/ 3 tablespoons
- Cinnamon – 1 heaped teaspoon
- A Pastry brush
This makes 12 cinnamon puff pastry twists or enough for about 2-3 people to eat. So if you want more double the recipe. Also it is possible your puff pastry dough is differently shaped than mine, so beware to take that into account.
Method
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius/ 356 degrees Fahrenheit or follow the instructions on your package puff pastry.
- Remove the puff pastry from the freezer, so they can thaw.
- Return to the kitchen after about 5 minutes. Melt the butter for about 30-40 seconds in the microwave.
- Mix the cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl.
- Now pick up the first puff pastry square. Brush a layer of molten butter on the pastry with the pastry brush.
- With a spoon sprinkle a layer of cinnamon sugar on top of the butter.
- Now cut the square in 4 thin strips. Put two strips on top of each other with the cinnamon facing the inside. Repeat with the other two strips. Then twist them so they look like twisters and place on a baking sheet.
- Repeat with the rest of the puff pastry squares
- Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until they are golden brown or follow the instructions on your package puff pastry.
- Remove them from the oven and let them cool down for 5 minutes. Place them on a plate and eat them, enjoy!
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Variation Tips
- Puff pastry cinnamon rolls. Instead of cutting the puff pastry square in two, roll the puff pastry. You now have roll shaped pastry instead.
- Puff Pastry Twisters with sugar. Not a fan of cinnamon? Remove the cinnamon and make these with sugar only.
Oh now there’s something that I can make. This sounds so good. I sometimes make cinnamon rolls using my bread machine to make the dough for me. Then I just roll it, fill with cinnamon sugar and butter, let rise and bake. This is so much quicker.
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That’s what I love about this recipe, it’s so quick to make. And it’s really good! Although those cinnamon rolls you make sound really good too, I might have to invest in a bread machine once as I hate making bread, it always fails and takes too long.
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Omg, these look so yummy! I have never tried to make anything like these but they seem so simple and delicious. I would have to convert the measurements but of course its’ easy to do that on google. Good work, Lola! They look so good 😀
They are simple and delicious. Ahg sorry forgot to convert the sugar back. I tweaked the original recipe that used way too much sugar in my opinion and then forget to convert the new sugar measrument. It’s about 10 teaspoons or 3 tablespoons.
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When I was a child we used to make something similar with leftover pie dough after my Mom made a pie. I got to roll them out and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. They were baked flat–very good! This sounds like a good, quick recipe, Lola.
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That sounds good too with pie dough! I think it will taste similiar, but the dough will be a bit different. Although I don’t think it really matters which dough you use.
They look yummy, I’m hungry now ! And yes, I know them under the name of churros 🙂
They are really good! I hope I can make these again soon.
I guess the churros name is just weird to me then. I never heard of these refered to churros. I only know shurros as the long pieces of fried dough with cinnamon sugar, they sometimes sell at markets or carnivals.
Yes, that’s it ! Same food, different orthograph 😉
Okay thanks for clarifying 🙂
These are so delicious. I made a huge batch of these a few weeks ago. I mixed mine up and added a bit of ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
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That’s a good idea to add those spices! Might have to give that a try next time I make them.
Would it weird you out if I tell you I have all your recipes bookmarked for future use (ahem, when I’m finally married, ahem)? EVERYTHING YOU MAKE JUST LOOK SO AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS! This one reminds me of churros (I’m pretty sure yours are more fantastic, though ;D )!!
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Aww thanks! That makes me so happy to hear you bookmarked my recipes. I always feel like everyone likes my recipes, but no one is actually making them. So it’s great to hear you’re planning to make them. I hope you’ll have a lot of fun making these!
It took me along time before I staretd cooking and baking, when you have someone else who can cook and bake in the house there’s no reason to do it yourself. Only when my sister couldn’t cook anymore I started cooking a few days and now two years later I cook every day. Those first few months are the hardest though and Imessed up quite some recipes before I even got a bit good at it.
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Mmmmm you had me at cinnamon, could I adapt this and add apple to the mix? I see what you mean about churros, they dont look like how I remember churros looking but anyway if they have cinnamon I am sold on them!
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I love cinnamon! If you want to add apple to the mix, you might have to change the size in that case. So instead of twisters, just make squares and then add apples to the filling, put the filling on half of the sqaure and then fold it and close the sides. In that case your apples can’t escape from the pastry.
I always, always gain 20 pounds ehen I read one of your food posts! I’m amazed at how little of time this takes to make! And no, they don’t look like Churros, (don’t Churros have caramel in them?)
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Churros is a sort of dough as well and often covered in sugar and cinnamon, but the dough is different and get’s fried in oil. They are very long. I never had churros with caramel, but then again I only have eaten churos a few times.
It really takes little time to make, it does take some time to put butter and cinnamon sugar on each piece and then slice and twist them, but it doesn’t take too long, the waiting while they are in the oven is the hardest part.
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I do this with leftover pie dough. It is so so so good!
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Sounds like a good alternative to puff pastry dough! I think you could make these with any type of dough.
honestly, i think i just drooled a bit
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Can’t blame you, they are delicious! I am tempted to make them again as my own post is making me hungry.
Now these do sound easy and delicious. Good fine, Lola! I might try this with my store bought crescent rolls to see how that works since I don’t have any pastry puffs. They’ll be fluffier, but still taste pretty good I think.
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I think these would work great with crescent rolls as well, they might taste a bit differently, but I am sure they woudld still taste good. It probably works with any sort of dough or pastry dough.
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Yum! I’ve done a similar but using pizza dough. Cinnamon and sugar is just so tasty together.
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Oh that sounds like a good alternative as well! I like pizza dough, so I am sure that would be yummy too. I agree the combination of cinnamon and sugar is just so good.
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I’ve had this before but never thought of making it myself but I will now because that’s just too easy!
Karen @For What It’s Worth
That’s what I thought too when I found this recipe, it’s so easy and really good. I hope you give it a try!
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These look so simple and I have all the ingredients in my kitchen! I think I might give these a go soon, I’m a sucker for anything involving puff pastry 😀
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Same here, I love puff pastry! And it’s a recipe I usually have all the ingredients for, so I can decide on the day itself if I want to make this. It’s pretty simple to make too. I hope you’ll like them!
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Oh, man these sound good!!!! *mouth watering*
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They are delicious!
These look SOOO YUM. Man. Now I’m hungry.
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Sorry to make you hungry! They are as good as they look though ;).
Yummmmmm. This reminds me of when I was a kid and my mom made pies. She would always save some of the pie dough for us and we would do the same — brush with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, bake, and eat.
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Another bloggers who commented mentioned the same, I ever heard of it before. We always used all the pie dough for the pie, lol. It sounds like a good way to use the leftover dough. It’s a yummy snack and simple to make.