Baking 101 - Eclairs my first attempt


Here I went. Tackling a favorite French pastry. Eclairs!

It's takes a couple of hours, but they are so worthwhile!

I found this decadent French pastry to be pretty simple to make. For anyone who knows me knows that I don't/can't (It's all in how you see it) bake. I continually made the excuses that I need a stand mixer, time and money to experiment.

I finally tossed all those excuse into the garbage and took the leap.

7 Eggs, 3 cups milk, 2/3 cup sugar, butter(almost a stick), 1cup flour and a few ingredients later I had made the foundations of an eclair.

During the process the kitchen smelled like BUTTER! The pate a choux rises beautifully. The custard came out silky and creamy!

Then came assembly. I had to wait for the custard to cool, which took a really long next time I'm doing that a day ahead, then prepped the pastry shells for filling. When I poked the hole in the pastry I realized how hollow it was. It was so amazing to me that it puffed up in that manner. Remember I don't bake so this is all new. The pastry was surprisingly delicate. I couldn't believe I had made this.

Once they were all filled I got to dip them in luscious dark chocolate. But I couldn't eat them yet. I had to wait for the chocolate to set. The longest 5 minutes, give or take.

It was now time to taste. It was AMAZING!!! It was light, luscious, decadent and so gratifying!

I'm so glad I stopped making excuses!


Next time I'm going to try to make Bacon Maple Eclair. Yum!

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