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Eclairs: Double Chocolate Eclairs

Source of Recipe

Mimi's Archive


List of Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1 cup boiling water
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 eggs
1 recipe chocolate custard filling
1 recipe chocolate glaze


Recipe

Melt the butter or margarine in boiling water. Add flour and salt all at once; stir vigorously. Cook and stir till mixture forms a ball that doesn't separate. Remove from heat; cool slightly. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Pipe dough through a pastry tube or paper cone, making 4x3/4-inch strips, on a greased baking sheet.(here's where you can make them as large or small as you want) Bake in 450ºF oven 15 minutes, then in 325ºF oven for 15 minutes. Cool completely on rack. Cut off tops of eclairs; remove soft centers. Just before serving, fill each with chocolate custard filling. Drizzle tops with chocolate glaze. Makes 14

TO MAKE CHOCOLATE CUSTARD FILLING: Combine 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons cornstarch, and 1/2 salt. Gradually stir in 3 cups of milk and two 1-ounce squares unsweetened chocolate, cut up. Cook and stir till bubbly; cook and stir 2 to 3 minutes longer. Stir a moderate amount of hot mixture into 2 slightly beaten egg yolks; return to hot mixture. Cook and stir just till mixture boils. Add 1 teaspoons vanilla; cool. Beat smooth. Whip 1/2 cup whipping cream to soft peaks. Fold into custard.

TO MAKE CHOCOLATE GLAZE: Melt one 1-ounce square unsweetened chocolate and 1 tablespoon butter over very low heat. Stir in 1 cup sifted powdered sugar and 2 to 3 tablespoons milk, blending till smooth and of drizzling consistency.