These cinnamon and sugar churro bars are frosted with brown sugar penuche and then drizzled with chocolate glaze. Perfect after a spicy meal or instead of cinnamon toast for breakfast, these churro cookie bars are something you must try!

You might have noticed I’m entering a new chapter at This is How I Cook. I’ll still be baking great things like these churro bars, but it’s time to throw the pink and green spoons aside and start something new. This change has been in the works since mid February and I never thought this would get finished. Though it isn’t quite done…I still have some aesthetics to complete, and a few pages need to be moved around; but it’s almost there.  With many suggestions from fellow blogger friends I especially want to bow, throw  kisses and send churro bars to Tricia of Saving Room for Dessert, for  whipping me into shape.  More kudos go to Bobbi of HWC Magazine , Greg of Sippity Sup and Denise over at Easy and Delish, and last but not least, Shelley at Two Healthy Kitchens.

Changing this blog was something I wanted to do for a long time, but it required a capital expenditure and one I wasn’t sure I wanted to make. On the other hand I’ve been writing This is How I Cook for 6 1/2 years and I’m not sure I’ve ever done anything that long, except for raising kids! I decided I’m worth the investment and decided to invest in myself. I don’t know where this will lead, but so far my journey has been satisfying. Writing is something I like and I think you might even say my photography skills have improved. Right, Mr. Riffs? (You were my first supporter and that is something I won’t forget!) Cooking is something I  love, and I believe that writing this blog makes me a better cook. Anyway, it’s time I start thinking about me, and writing in this little space in the world just feels right. I hope it does to you, too.

So what does this mean to you, my  faithful followers? I now have a more searchable recipe index with better headings and food photos to help locate the recipes you might be searching for.  Yes, you will most likely see advertising popping up, but I figure by now ads are inescapable. The home page will show lots of recipes too, that you may have forgotten about. You can even see my Instagram feed which I hope you will follow me on too! Moving from Blogger to WordPress gives me more options in the future to keep this blog updated with the latest features, and now I also have a secure site. Everything isn’t perfect, so I’d appreciate if you let me know of anything that needs fixing or improving.

Now it’s time for something sweet. These churro bars are definitely that. Dense and chewy and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar on the top and bottom, then frosted with a brown sugar candy penuche and gilded with a drizzle of chocolate glaze, make these a winner in my book. Manservant has been eating these churro bars all week. It drives me crazy because I’m constantly wiping sugar off the counter and the worst part is that he forgets to seal the Zip-Lock bag they are stored in. I would have thought they’d become stale by now, but the truth is they’ve gone from chewy to a more dense kind of crispy, and he agrees that both are good!

These churro bars are super simple to make and the toppings are not necessary. Just make the cookie bar if that’s all you have time for. In all honesty I’m not sure why these are called churro bars, because except for the cinnamon sugar, they really don’t remind me of churros. I thought by adding the chocolate and penuche that I’d get closer to thinking churros, but no… I just got closer to a better cinnamon sugar bar. Whatever you call these,  they would make a good bite after a spicy meal, as the cinnamon and sugar helps cools your mouth. On the other hand I think Manservant thinks they are more like cinnamon toast, because the Zip-Lock bag is wide open every morning!

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