Coffee Rum Éclairs

Although chocolate éclairs are the traditional popular favorite (instructions for preparing them and several other variations are given at the end of this recipe), I have always been partial to éclairs filled with coffee-flavored cream and covered with coffee icing. Remember, with these you can plan ahead. You can bake the éclair pastry and freeze it on one day, make the filling the next, then reheat, cool, fill, and ice them on the third day. Such a division of labor makes preparing a past