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Devils Chocolate Eclairs Recipe


Devils Chocolate Eclairs Recipe
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I always thought that one will never be a real good chef untill he creates new recipes using his immagination.I always loved devil's food cake combination and I am also a big fan of eclairs and profiteroles.Here is the result.

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup flour (subtract 2 ½ tbsp after measuring the cup)
  • 60 grams butter
  • 3 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 5 large eggs
  • 1 tsp Vanilla powder
  • Filling:
  • 4 eggs white
  • ½ tsp cream of tartar or 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 125 grams sugar
  • Melted chocolate for glaze

Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 400 F, grease two large cookie sheets lightly.
  2. Mix the flour and cocoa powder and set aside.
  3. In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, bring butter and water to a running boil.
  4. Pour the flour mixture all in one go and stir using a wooden spoon till it form a
  5. Ball shape. Turn the dough on a clean bowl and cool for 15 minutes.
  6. Mix in the eggs one at a time stirring well after each addition. Add the vanilla and stir
  7. Again.
  8. Fill the dough in a piping bag fitted with a nozzle of the shape you desire (I used star and
  9. Rounded nozzle as I made profiteroles and éclairs shape)
  10. Pipe the dough on the cookie sheets and bake for 30 minutes till risen and puffed.
  11. Turn the oven off and take them out .Cut them in half horizontally and
  12. Return them in the warm oven while you prepare the filling. We want them
  13. To be completely dried from inside.
  14. Filling:
  15. In a clean bowl, beat the egg whites till frothy, add the cream of tartar or lemon juice
  16. And beat till soft peaks form. Add the sugar gradually and beat till shiny and glossy
  17. And stiff peaks forms.
  18. Fill in a piping bag fitted with star nozzle and pipe rosettes over the bottom
  19. Half of each peace. Cover with the top half.
  20. Using a flame torsche, carefully heat from the side till golden brown. Glaze
  21. With melted chocolate.

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Sounds delightful!


Wow! What a recipe!


Terrific....will make tomorrow! I love eclairs. Will come back and tell you. Thanks for the post.


Making today to surprise my family


Ahmed, this recipe of yours sound too good to be true! Another perfect dessert recipe for those chocoholics out here! Thank you for creating something new and wonderful for all of us!


Hey Ahmed'
I have a dessert evening to go to tonight and was just looking for an alternative eclair recipe,and low and behold the best one I found was yours..I'm making this recipe tonight so will be back in touch with how it went! thanks for another great one my friend,Happy Days to you!


Thank you! Wow!! an eclair w/o cream or milk (allergies). This sounds sublime!


OOH! dis is perfect.
i really wanna make these but.. im missin some equipment dat i kno my mommy wont buy...so is it ok if i just use my hands or a plastic ziplock bak 2 squeeze em out? how long do i keep em in da oven da 1st nd da 2nd time? do i have 2 torch em?
and wat r profitaroles?
sory 4 all da questions.
Thankyu!


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