Chocolate Eclairs
From zen2
Contents
Ingredients
For Eclairs:
- Water 4 ounces
- Butter 2 ounces
- Flour 2 ounces
- Egg 2
- Salt a pinch
- Fresh cream (whipped) 1 cup
- Icing sugar 1 ounce
For Chocolate Icing:
- Butter 1 ounce
- Icing sugar 4 ounce
- Water 1 tbsp
- Coco powder 2 tbsp
- Cooking chocolate 2 tbsp
- Cream 2 tbsp
Cooking Directions
For Eclairs:
- In a pan, put water, butter and salt and boil..
- Add in flour, and mix fast.
- Cook till the mixture forms balls in the center and leaves the sides of the pan.
- Remove from heat.
- Add in eggs 1 at a time, mixing fast.
- Fill the batter in icing bag and pipe out long lengthwise strips on a greased tray and bake on 300/ 150 degrees centigrade for 25 minutes.
- Cool, slit eclairs from side.
- Fill with fresh cream.
- Dip top in chocolate icing.
For Chocolate Icing:
- Mix all the chocolate icing ingredients together and cook for 2 minutes.
- Remove and use.
