Easy Eclairs

Easy Eclairs

Easy Eclairs

45 minutes

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  • Servings:   6
  • Weight Watchers:   34 Points
Cuisine
  • lunch
  • main course
  • main dish
  • dinner
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Ingredients
  • CHOUX PASTRY
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 cup full cream milk
  • 4 ounces butter
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup plain flour
  • 4 eggs
  • PASTRY CREAM
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • cup cream
  • 50 grams dark chocolate, chopped
  • GANACHE
Instructions

CHOUX PASTRY

Preheat oven to 180C. Line a baking tray with parchment or a baking mat.

Combine water, milk, butter, sugar and salt in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat.

Stir in flour quickly and cook over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture pulls away from sides of pan cleanly and forms a ball.

Transfer dough into a mixing bowl and using an electric mixer, beat on low speed to cool slightly, about 3 mins.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill for at least 30 mins in the fridge. Dough may be stored, covered, for up to 24 hours in the fridge.

Remove dough from fridge and fill into a piping bag.

From this point on, you can pipe into rounds using a nozzle of your choice or cut a hole of about 1 1/2 cm at the tip of the piping bag and pipe into little logs of about 5 cm in length.... or longer if you want a bigger eclair.

Bake in preheated oven for about 20 - 25 mins or until golden brown.

Remove from oven and using the tip of a small knife (I used a chopstick), pierce a small hole to allow the steam to escape. This prevents the eclairs from going soggy on the inside. You can also do this step and place it into the oven for another 2 mins to dry it out.

Allow to cool on a rack.

PASTRY CREAM

Place all ingredients into a saucepan and whisk until evenly combined.

Place saucepan over medium heat and bring to a slow boil, stirring continuously.

When mixture thickens into a paste, remove from heat.

Transfer pastry cream into a clean, dry bowl and cover with plastic wrap to prevent a skin from forming. Allow to cool and then place in fridge until fully chilled.

Note: pastry cream will thicken slightly when chilled. Use within 2 days.

When chilled, fill pastry cream into piping bag fitted with a tube nozzle and fill eclairs through the hole/slit you have made earlier.

Dip or drizzle the top of filled eclairs with chocolate ganache.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.

GANACHE

Heat cream over medium heat in a saucepan until just about boiling. Do not boil.

Remove from heat.

Mix in chocolate pieces and stir until all chocolate has melted. Leave to cool.

(Ganache will thicken when cooled).

Can be kept in fridge.

Remove and stand container in a bowl of warm water to soften before re-using.

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