Eclairs: Baking

Éclairs

 

 

Ingredients:

• 250ml water
• 115g butter (cut into cubes)
• 200g flour
• 1tbsp sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 4 eggs

Method:

• Preheat your oven to 200'c
• Firstly, pour the water into a saucepan and then add the butter and heat until all the butter has melted.
• Whilst this is melting, mix the flour, sugar and salt together.
• When the butter has melted, take the pan off the heat and add the flour mix.
• Keep stirring this vigorously until it all combines into a ball.

 

• Put this dough back on the heat and keep stirring for 1-2 minutes, just to cook off the flour.
• Take off the heat and leave to cool for 3 minutes
• Mix all of your eggs together and then once the mixture is cool and the eggs a little bit at a time and mix until the dough and egg are completely combined.
• Keep adding the egg until the mixture is thick, but still drops off the spoon quickly.

 

 

 

• Then pop the mixture into a piping bag and pipe some slug looking thick lines onto a baking tray lined with baking paper.

 

• cook in the oven for half an hour, or until they are golden brown and puffed up.

 

 

• When cooled, whip up some cream and use a knife to make a small hole in the éclair. Then pipe the inside with cream.
• Melt some chocolate in the microwave, 10 seconds at a time until it is melted and then dip the top of the éclair in.

Please feel free to drop a comment below on what you would like me to make next week! Thank you!