Éclairs

To make éclairs, you pipe out strips of cream puff pastry batter, bake them in a hot oven, and then fill the cooled pastries with pastry cream or another filling. There are two ways to get the filling into the éclair: You can cut the éclair in half horizontally, put the cream on the bottom, and replace the top. Or, you can make a little hole in each end of the bottom of an éclair and pipe the filling through holes with a pastry bag fitted with a star tip, which is done here. The classic top