Chocolate eclairs
I recently discovered the recipe for a chocolate topping for eclairs that remains just firm but really glossy. They look and taste so much better than my old recipe.
Chocolate eclairs
I recently discovered the recipe for a chocolate topping for eclairs that remains just firm but really glossy. They look and taste so much better than my old recipe.
Cooking Instructions
- 1
To make the choux pastry, combine water, butter and sugar in a sauce pan and bring to the boil. Add the flour and stir for a few minutes on a lowish heat until the roux becomes shiny and pulls away from the sides of the pan.
- 2
If you have a food mixer, dump the hot mixture into it and mix with the paddle attachment until it stops steaming, if you don't have a mixer just cover with cling film with a few puncture holes to allow the steam to escape until it has cooled to room temperature. Now start adding the eggs, 1 by 1 and turn off the mixer when you add (in case you drop the whole egg inc shell) mix each egg until combined until all eggs are incorporated.
- 3
Now pipe the choux pastry with either a piping nozzle or if using a disposable bag just make a clean cut around 1cm in diameter. You decide what size to pipe but the standard would be around 4 inches long and 1 inch thickness (approx) Keep a steady squeeze and a slow deliberate movement (practice makes perfect) Leave room for each eclair to expand when baking. I'm using a silicone baking mat here but you can use baking parchment, tip make a few dots of the pastry under the paper first to secure.
- 4
Now with a wet finger even out your pre-baked eclairs (this also creates a little steam in the oven which aides the rise. 200c oven for about 20-25 minutes, after 15 minutes you can see these eclairs are not quite done, they will collapse the third image are perfect. leave to cool on a wire rack.
- 5
Break up the chocolate into a glass or stainless steel bowl, sit over simmering water DO NOT ALLOW THE WATER TO TOUCH THE BOW! When the chocolate has melted add in the icing sugar and cocoa
- 6
Stir in the icing sugar and cocoa as best as you can and then start adding hot water with a ladle from the simmering pan, do this about 1 tbsp at a time and work until you have achieved a beautiful glossy THICK chocolate sauce. Keep this mixture warm while you fill your eclairs.
- 7
Combine cream, icing sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whisk to firm peak, using a piping bag with a thin nozzle pipe cream into pastry shells until you see it ooze out, you can make a hole with a knife at each end of the pastry to make this easier.
- 8
Dunk the cream filled pastry into the still warm chocolate mix and hold for a few seconds, allow some excess chocolate to drip off and leave chocolate side up on a rack or tray. refrigerate fully before serving
- 9
These screen shot images are taking from my Youtube channel why not watch the video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIywaOWPfI4&t=88s
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