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#ChefEddPresents — Chocolate Eclairs

Equipment

  • piping bag

    • injecting piping tip

  • baking sheet

  • whisk

Ingredients

  • butter

  • flour

  • full-cream milk

  • vanilla extract

  • cornstarch

  • 11 pcs egg

  • dark chocolate bar

  • salt, sugar

Steps

  • Custard (do this hours ahead to cool off)

  1. Boil 2.5 cups of milk with vanilla extract. Don't burn the milk.

  2. On a large bowl, whisk 7 egg yolks, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of cornstarch. NOTE: Feel free to lessen the sugar to prevent a super sweet custard.

  3. Add a little of the hot milk to the eggs to temper and prevent the eggs from being scrambled. Add the rest of the milk while whisking vigorously.

  4. Add a little more butter.

  5. Transfer the mixture to pan and heat again, all the while whisking until it becomes paste.

  6. Cover in plastic and refrigerate overnight.

  • Pastry

  1. On a pan, mix a slab of butter, 1 cup water, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar. Heat until melted butter boils.

  2. Remove heat. Add 1 cup flour and mix.

  3. Using mixer, one by one add 4 or 5 eggs until it becomes really viscous.

  4. Using piping bag, pipe out on baking sheet heat in the oven UNTIL BROWN AND SEMI-HARD. If you take it out too soon, the dough will collapse (see gallery).

  5. One the pastry is ready, inject custard using long piping tip.

  • Ganache

  1. Boil 1 small pack of cream.

  2. Mix in serrated shards of chocolate.


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