Miniature Chocolate Eclairs
From mrsc543 14 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Homemade pastries with chocolate filling are rich and tempting and are hands down better than store bought!
Ingredients
- Filling: shopping list
- 1 pkg (3 1/2 oz) chocolate pudding and pie filling shopping list
- 2 cups milk shopping list
- Pastry: shopping list
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter shopping list
- 1 cup water shopping list
- 1/8 tsp salt shopping list
- 1 cup flour shopping list
- 4 medium eggs shopping list
- Frosting: shopping list
- 2 Tbsp butter shopping list
- 2 oz semi-sweet chocolate shopping list
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar shopping list
- 2 Tbsp milk shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
How to make it
- Filling:
- Cook pudding according to package directions and chill for one hour.
- Pastry:
- In a heavy saucepan, heat butter, water and salt over medium-high heat until mixture boils and butter melts.
- Reduce heat to low.
- Vigorously stir in flour all at once until mixture forms a ball.
- Transfer to a bowl and cool for five minutes.
- Stir in eggs on at a time, beating will after each addition.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Grease baking sheet and drop dough into 12 mounds about five inches apart.
- Spread each mound into a 4-inch by 1/2-inch rectangle, piling the dough on top and slightly rounding sides.
- Bake until golden about 35 minutes.
- Remove from oven; make a 1-inch-long slit on side of each eclair.
- Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees and bake for 10 more minutes.
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Frosting:
- Heat butter and chocolate over low heat, stirring until melted.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in sugar, milk, and vanilla until smooth.
- Slice eclairs in half. Spoon about 1 Tbsp of filling onto each bottom half and replace tops.
- Spread tops with frosting.
The Rating
Reviewed by 8 people-
Thank you! these sound divine! one of these days I'll try to make. Do you do profiteroles? (spelling?!) 55555
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Luv Eclaires great post print try and save{Share with my daughters high5
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A favorite in our house!
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