I love this eclairs, first, because they are healthy, and second, beacause they are really simple and quick to make.
This recipe makes around 15 eclairs.
INGREDIENTS
Dough: Filling: Topping: +70g flour +60g flour +Around 100g chocolate
+55g butter +75g sugar
+
140ml water +
50g cocoa powder
+
2 eggs (beaten) +
1 vanilla bean (or 1 bag
+1 pinch of salt of vanilla sugar and then,
+1 pinch of sugar instead of 75g sugar, 68 g)
+1/2 l milk
+2 egg yolks
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PROCESS
Dough:
- Preheat oven to 200ªC.
- Melt butter with water in a saucepan.
- Add flour and let boil stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and add salt and sugar.
- Add beaten eggs gently.
- Fill a pastry bag (without nozzle) with dough and form stripes on a backing sheet, covered with backing paper, with enough room for prevent sticking at the growth.
- Sprinkle with water and bake for 20-25 min.
- Make a hole on the end of each eclair with the narrow nozzle of the pastry bag and put again in the oven for 10 min with the door slightly open and heat turned off or lowed, so that the eclairs can dry inside.
Filling:
- Boil in a saucepan the milk with the vanilla.
- Beat eggs with sugar and add flour.
- Add the milk to the egg mix and return to the saucepan. Boil until it thicks.
- Add cocoa powder.
- Let it cool until the eclairs are done. Before replenish, you should stir the filling so that lumps desappear.
Getting together:
- Fill the eclairs using the pastry bag (narrow and long nozzle) with the superb chocolate stuffing.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave [periods of 30 s, stir it between each period, until the chocolate is not melted at all (you DON'T have to heat it too much, it will make white spots)] and dip the top of the eclairs.
- Let cool the chocolate. If it was good melted, it will make a satisfying noise when you bite.
- Don't wait till tomorrow if you want them to be in the best condition.