Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, eclairs. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Eclairs is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Eclairs is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Raymond Blanc's recipe for chocolate éclairs is full of tips and advice, including how to freeze. Classic eclairs, called eclairs au chocolat or chocolate eclairs, are made with French choux pastry. The hallow crispy shells are then filled with vanilla custard, called pastry cream.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have eclairs using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Eclairs:
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Get 1 stick butter
- Get 1 cup flour
- Take 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Get 4 eggs
- Take Filling
- Make ready 1 (5 oz) package instant vanilla pudding
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups cold milk
- Prepare 1 cup heavy cream
- Prepare 1/4 cup confectioner's sugar
- Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Prepare Topping
- Make ready Half bag semisweet chips Chocolate
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take About 2 tbsp Butter
- Prepare 1 cup confectioner's sugar
- Prepare 3 tbsp hot water
Traditionally, eclairs are topped with chocolate ganache. Chocolate Éclair is one of the best French dessert which can be made at home. And I have to admit that choux is one of my favorites. These amazing pastries only look hard.
Instructions to make Eclairs:
- Preheat oven to 425* or 450 degrees F. (My oven runs hot I usually use the lower temp) Prepare cookie sheet by lining with parchment paper.
- In a medium saucepan, combine 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil, stirring until butter melts completely. Reduce heat to low, and add flour and salt. Stir vigorously until mixture leaves the sides of the pan and begins to form a stiff ball. Remove from heat. And place in stand mixer use stir or gentlest setting to remove steam from batter.
- Add eggs, one at a time to the batter, beating well to incorporate completely after each addition. Spoon or pipe dough onto lined cookie sheet.
- Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, then reduce heat to 325 degrees F by having oven door slightly ajar for a moment, and bake 20 minutes more, until hollow sounding when lightly tapped on the bottom. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- For the filling, combine pudding mix and milk in medium bowl according to package directions. In a separate bowl, beat the cream with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Beat in 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Fold whipped cream into pudding. Cut tops off of cooled pastry shells with a sharp knife. Fill shells with pudding mixture and replace tops.
- For the icing, melt the chocolate and 2 tablespoons butter in microwave for 30 seconds add additional 10 secs if more time is needed to melt. Stir in 1 cup confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in hot water, one tablespoon at a time, until icing is smooth and has reached desired consistency. Let cool slightly, and drizzle over filled eclairs. Refrigerate until serving.
This simple and elegant eclair has a sugar topping to compliment the rich vanilla flavor. The world's best éclairs, filled with luscious fillings from chocolate cream and foie gras. An éclair is a French dessert made from choux pastry, filled with pastry cream or custard and topped with fondant icing. There are three parts to éclairs: the pastry (pâte à choux), the filling (crème pâtissière), and Éclairs: Assembly. Form small logs out of the Choux paste on a.
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