Chocolate eclairs Recipe

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Directions:

  1. Pastry cream (Make a day ahead and up to a week ahead): Pour milk into saucepan, add scraped vanilla bean including pod.
  2. Sift cornstarch, flour and sugar into a bowl.
  3. Whisk egg yolks in another bowl.
  4. Add dry ingredients to egg yolk and whisk until smooth.
  5. Take yolk mixture, milk and butter to stove.
  6. Heat milk until just simmering, stir about 1/2 cup of milk into yolk mixture, pour yolk mixture into pan with milk and heat on med low until it comes to a boil.
  7. Stir constantly with wooden spoon.
  8. Let boil, stirring, for 1 minute.
  9. Turn off heat and stir in butter until completely melted and incorporated.
  10. Pour entire contents of pan thru a strainer into a shallow stainless bowl.
  11. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing directly on to cream.
  12. Chill until cold and firm.
  13. Pate a Choux: Preheat oven to 375.
  14. Place water, butter, sugar and salt in heavy saucepan and bring to boil.
  15. Add flour all at once and stir until mixture comes away from sides and forms a ball.
  16. Remove from heat.
  17. Put mixture in mixer with a paddle and mix on low to cool to warm, not hot.
  18. Add eggs one at a time, beating well to incorporate each before adding the next.
  19. After last egg is added, beat until smooth.
  20. With a piping bag and round tip, pipe mixture on to a parchment lined sheet pan.
  21. You can make as big or as long as you want.
  22. They will about double in size when cooked.
  23. Bake at 375 until they become,brown, light and hollow.
  24. Cool.
  25. Dark Chocolate Ganache: Bring cream to a simmer.
  26. Pour over chopped chocolate, let sit for 2 minutes, stir until melted and smooth.
  27. Assembly: Take finished pate a choux and punch a hole in one end with something like a chop stick.
  28. Put pastry cream into a piping bag with a narrow round tip and squeeze cream into hole to fill up pate a choux.
  29. When ganache has cooled enough to leave tracks in itself when drizzled back into the bowl it is ready to use.
  30. Dip filled pate a choux into ganache to coat.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 454.98 Kcal (1905 kJ)
Calories from fat 269.09 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 29.9g 46%
Cholesterol 200.73mg 67%
Sodium 439.65mg 18%
Potassium 259.18mg 6%
Total Carbs 41.38g 14%
Sugars 23.59g 94%
Dietary Fiber 2.83g 11%
Protein 9.73g 19%
Vitamin C 0.2mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 3%
Iron 2.3mg 13%
Calcium 146.4mg 15%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 243.24 Kcal (1018 kJ)
Calories from fat 143.86 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 15.98g 46%
Cholesterol 107.32mg 67%
Sodium 235.05mg 18%
Potassium 138.56mg 6%
Total Carbs 22.12g 14%
Sugars 12.61g 94%
Dietary Fiber 1.51g 11%
Protein 5.2g 19%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 3%
Iron 1.2mg 13%
Calcium 78.3mg 15%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 11
    Points
  • 13
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

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