Eclair with Chocolate is an easy and go-to type of eclair. An eclair is a French pastry particularly popular with children but also with grown ups. Traditionally stuffed with chocolate, it is also available in many flavours: coffee, vanilla, pistachio, raspberry, etc. to satisfy all gourmets.

Recipe of Eclair with Chocolate

Ingredients

• 200g of flour.
• 210g of dark chocolate.
• 25cl of water.
• 30cl of milk.
• 4 tablespoons of sugar.
• 125g of butter.
• 5 eggs.
• 3 egg yolks.
• Oil.
• Salt.

Preparation

• Prepare the choux pastry :
• Preheat the oven to 210°C.
• Mix 1 tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of salt, 75g of butter and 25cl of water in a saucepan. Boil.
• Add 150g of flour and stir until the dough is compact.
• Knead the dough to make it firm.
• Add 4 eggs, one at a time, mixing well.
• Knead the dough to make it firm.
• On an oiled baking sheet, form 10 sausages 15cm long.
• Brush the sausages with an egg yolk.
• Bake 25 minutes in the oven, then leave in the oven turned off for another 10 minutes.
• Prepare the cream:
• Melt 60g of chocolate pieces in the milk over low heat.
• In a bowl, whisk an egg, an egg yolk and 3 tablespoons of the sugar.
• Pour 2 tablespoons of flour and pour into the chocolate milk.
• Stir until it thickens while leaving on the heat.
• Remove from the heat and add 20g of butter. Stir.
• Let it cool down.
• Melt 150g of chocolate with 30g of butter using a water-bath.
• Cut the éclairs lengthwise and garnish them with the chocolate cream.
• Pour the melted chocolate on top.
• Let the melted chocolate harden.

Enjoy!