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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 450�F oven 15 minutes, then in 325�F 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.