--- title: Churro Ice Cream Sandwiches: How Healthy is LA's New Dessert? description: LA's hottest new dessert may be delicious, but how many calories does it include? canonical: https://time.com/2884785/how-healthy-churro-ice-cream-sandwiches/ author: Abby Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-16T21:04:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:26:33.607Z article:section: Health og:title: Churro Ice Cream Sandwiches: How Healthy is LA's New Dessert? og:description: LA has a new popular dessert, and it's a combination of two others. 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Last summer, [Dominique Ansel’s croissant-slash-donut](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/03/cronut-craze-creates-black-market-for-tasty-new-treat/) took the East Coast by storm. This summer, the west coast has its own trendy dessert hydrid: the churro ice cream sandwich, a signature snack at Sylvia Yoo’s pop-up pastry company [Churro Borough](http://www.churroborough.com/) in Los Angeles. Yoo makes all parts of each sandwich herself, according to [Chow](http://www.chow.com/food-news/152029/churro-ice-cream-sandwiches-churro-borough). She offers four standard flavors—ranging from vanilla to Mexican hot chocolate—and several seasonal specialties such as orange creamsicle and panna cotta. But the real question we’re all waiting for: How healthy are these delicious-sounding desserts? TIME asked Alyse Levine, a registered dietician who lives in L.A., to help us crunch the nutritional numbers. An ice cream sandwich with a few ounces of churro would probably include about 410-500 calories and 22-26 mg of total fat, she says. About 10-12 grams of the fat would likely be saturated. The desserts also have 45-56 grams of carbohydrates, 25-30 grams of sugar and 300-450 mg of sodium. But Levine was eager to say she did not advocate against the churro ice cream sandwich. “While these numbers may seem high to some … I not a proponent of low-calorie diet versions of real foods,” says Levine. “Therefore, I see no problem with people enjoying these desserts occasionally.” Churro Borough is scheduled to participate in several [food festivals](http://www.churroborough.com/events/) this summer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2884785/how-healthy-churro-ice-cream-sandwiches/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2884785/how-healthy-churro-ice-cream-sandwiches/"},"headline":"How Unhealthy Are Churro Ice Cream Sandwiches?","datePublished":"2014-06-16T21:04:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:26:33.607Z","description":"LA's hottest new dessert may be delicious, but how many calories does it include?","url":"https://time.com/2884785/how-healthy-churro-ice-cream-sandwiches/","keywords":["Nutrition","Food","Diet & Fitness","los angeles","Ice Cream"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abby Abrams","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/abby-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nutrition/","name":"Nutrition"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2884785/how-healthy-churro-ice-cream-sandwiches/","name":"How Unhealthy Are Churro Ice Cream Sandwiches?"}}]}] ```