Kerry's chocolate eclairs

Name: Kerry's chocolate eclairs
Total time: 600 s
Yield: 20 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Milk; 1/2 cup Water; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 3/4 cup Cake Flour; 1/4 tsp Salt; 5 Eggs; 125 ml Butter; 1 Cooking chocolate; 250 ml Fresh cream; 1 tbsp Castor sugar

KerryAnnSmith @cook_2866079

Kerry's chocolate eclairs

KerryAnnSmith @cook_2866079

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Ingredients

10 mins

20 servings

Batter
1/2 cupMilk
1/2 cupWater
1 tbspSugar
1 3/4 cupCake Flour
1/4 tspSalt
5Eggs
125 mlButter
Topping
1Cooking chocolate
Filling
250 mlFresh cream
1 tbspCastor sugar

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Steps

10 mins

1

Preheat oven to 180°C
2

In a pot, bring milk, butter and water to the boil
3

Add dry ingredients and mix until a ball is formed
4

Take of heat and allow to cool to room temperature
5

Once at room temperature, add eggs one at a time mixing in well after each one is added
6

Pour mixture into a piping bag and pipe onto greased baking tin. Make sure you space them enough as they rise quite a bit.
7

You can smooth the edges with your fingers dipped in a bit of water
8

Bake for 25 mins
9

Take out and reduce oven to 160°C.
10

Cut the eclairs down the side and place back into 160°C oven for another 5
11

Melt cooking chocolate for the topping
12

Whip cream and sugar until stiff and it forms peaks
13

Take out eclairs and allow to cool
14

Pipe whipped cream into cooled eclairs
15

Dip/spread chocolate on top
16

Its best to keep them in the fridge so that the cream doesn't melt
17

Enjoy!