014 Eclairs

Ingredients (8-12 ppl):

dough:

• 1/8 l milk
• 1/8 l water
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 75 g butter
• 150 g flour
• 4 eggs

filling:

• 1/4 l milk
• 1 vanilla bean
• 3 eggs
• 75 g sugar
• 20 g flour
• chocolate covering

Eclairs are made from a choux pastry dough. For this you mix an eighth liter of water and milk, salt, butter and sugar and let it cook. Add the flour and stir it with a wooden spoon to a soft dough. Put the pot back on the cooking area, stir further until the dough detaches from the ground. Add an egg, stir it again until soft and proceed so till the last egg. Fill the dough in a piping bag and put 10 cm lines on a baking tray. Bake at 200°C for about half an hour until golden yellow. Then let them cooldown.

Then prepare the cream. Heat milk with an open sliced vanilla bean. After it boiled, take out the vanilla bean. Mix egg yolks with sugar, add flour. While stirring, add the milk. Put it back in the pot and stir it at medium heat until it thickens. Add whipped egg whites and stir it. Sprinkle sugar on the cream and let it cool.

Cover half the pastries with melted chocolate. When the chocolate hardened, put cream on a pastry and top it with a chocolate pastry.