Éclairs - Desserts Recipe

Éclairs

🌍 Desserts, Paris, France Difficulty: ●●●○○

Ingredients

• Choux pastry
• pastry cream (below)
• chocolate glaze. Pastry cream: 500ml milk
• 4 yolks
• 100g sugar
• 40g cornstarch
• 30g butter
• vanilla

Method

1. Piping — Pipe choux into 12cm logs. Bake, cool.
2. Step 2 — Pastry cream: scald milk. Whisk yolks, sugar, cornstarch. Pour hot milk over slowly. Return to heat, stir until very thick. Add butter. Cover, chill.
3. Filling — Fill éclairs with cream (pipe through base or split).
4. Dipping — Dip tops in chocolate glaze.

Tags: choux pastry, pastry cream, chocolate glaze. pastry cream: 500ml milk, yolks, sugar · Source: Brittani's Almanac