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!