Chocolate Eclair Icing & Filling

"This Chocolate Eclair filling recipe goes together with Pol Martin's Cream Puff Dough "Recipe #389840" You will be making professional looking eclairs for any affair :)"
 
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Ready In:
25mins
Ingredients:
5
Yields:
12 eclairs
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ingredients

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directions

  • pour cream and vanilla in a bowl of electric mixer. beat until firm. add icing sugar and beat another 30 seconds, but no longer. set aside in refrigerator.
  • place chocolate in stainless steel bowl. set over saucepan half-filled with hot water. check that bowl does not touch water. melt over very low heat.
  • when melted, thin chocolate with 1 tbsp cold water. dip tops of eclairs in warm chocolate. if preferred, spread chocolate with spatula.
  • when chocolate on tops of eclair has set, carefully slice shells open using knife with serrated blade. fill with whipped cream and serve.

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Reviews

  1. The cream was very bland and the chocolate way too overpowering. Next time I will use a more custard based filling. This was just a bland version of whipping cream.
     
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