It’s been a while Claire & me got the temptation to bake our own “Eclair au Chocolat”. That delicious pastry is a delightful french classic. It’s surprisingly easy to make, but it’s easier when you are two, than make it solo. After the pictures the receipe by my love: Claire
Bon Appetit!
Éclair au Chocolat, by Claire
Preparation Time: 1 hour
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients (for 8 éclairs):
Eclair Dough:
10 cl Water
75 g Butter
80 g Flour
3 Eggs
Pinch of Salt
Chocolate Cream Filling:
100 g Baking Chocolate (70%)
1/3 L Milk
3 Egg Yolks
125 g Granulated Sugar
1 tea spoon vanilla extract
Chocolate Icing:
75 g Unsweetened Chocolate
75g cooking cream
How to Make It:
Eclair Dough:
Preheat oven to 180°C
1. In a pot, mix water, milk, butter and salt. Bring to a boil.
2. Once butter has completely melted, take off flame, and pour in flour, stirring constantly.
3. Put pot back on flame and continue to work it with a wooden spoon. Continue stirring and kneading with spoon until the dough dries out and stops sticking to the sides of the pot.
4. Take off flame. Add eggs, one at a time, stirring energetically.
5. Fill a baking sac with batter. On a baking sheet. Squeeze out “finger-sized eclairs
6. Bake for 25 minutes.
Voilà!
Chocolate Filling:
1. Melt vanilla and milk and half of the sugar in a pot, and bring to light boil, remove.
2. In a bowl, whisk yolks and sugar until it whitens.
3. Ad the boiling milk and put back in pot, bring to light boil, stirring constantly, until cream thickens and becomes smooth then ad the chocolate.
4. When cream cools off (and eclairs have cooled off as well), you can begin filling the eclairs:make a small hole and then stuff with cream, using your baking sac.
Voilà!
Icing:
Almost done! Hang in there! Chocolate eclair recipes are well-worth the time they take!!!
1. Melt chocolate with cooking cream in a small pot over a low flame whisking the whole time. Should look shiny and creamy!
3. Remove from heat. Spread a thin layer on each eclair
4. Wait until icing hardens a bit to serve it.
Bravo!