Éclairs au Chocolat

Name: Éclairs au Chocolat (Chocolate Éclairs)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: When ready to serve, carefully cut along one side. Fill with Chocolate Crème Pâtissière and coat with chocolate icing.; Make Pâte à Chou dough. Put dough into a pastry bag, or make bag of paper. See Choux à la Crème recipe for instructions.; Coat top surface of éclairs with mixture of 1 egg yolk and 2 tablespoons water. Be careful none runs onto the cooky sheet or it will become dark. With a fork make marks through the egg-coated dough the long way of the éclairs. Recipe makes about a dozen éclairs.

Chocolate Éclairs

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

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Method

Make Pâte à Chou dough. Put dough into a pastry bag, or make bag of paper. See Choux à la Crème recipe for instructions.
Squeeze dough onto greased cooky sheet in 4-