What are éclairs?
Éclairs is a typical french dessert which usually consist of choux pastry and are filled with pastry cream. Country by country, the filling differs. While in France, the chocolate éclairs will always have chocolate filling, in Spain, for example, the chocolate éclairs have vanilla filling. In Latvia, on the other hand, the filling is “more heavy” as we usually add more butter and cream. Chocolate ganache éclairs with vanilla pastry cream filling are my favorite ones – so, enjoy my French-Spanish recipe!
chocolate vanilla eclairs
Yield: 25 medium size éclaires, 10-12cm long
Ingredients
- 300g choux pastry
- 250-300g pastry cream
150g glaze
- 50g black chocolate
- 40g ice sugar
- 20g butter
- 1 table spoon of water
or
- 100g white fondant (fondant blanc)
- 20g cacao powder