Eclairs

I think this book is amazing. I got it from the Houston Library and it had so many wonderful recipes in it. Cakes and Pies, Torts and Cookies...And then I saw a recipe for Eclairs. Oh wow how I wanted to go fly to Louisiana where they have the best Eclairs on the face of the earth. (Besides Paris of course) So I rounded up some courage and decided to try it and did you know it only took me 6 tries to get the pastry part right? (Only 2 hours but everyone at work loved it). At least next time I know how they will turn out.

Pardon the few pictures. I was curing so bad that I forgot to snap what each one of my disaster turn outs looked like.

This first recipe is to make the eclairs. Basically it is your typical pastry dough.

The second recipe is to make your chocolate glaze to go on top of the eclair.

This is what mine turned out to be. It was a little bitter but turned out to be a nice combination with the filling.

Next and I thought this was the hardest part...the pastry creme. It was so good I had to stop myself from eating out of the bowl.

I had to cover mine wit wax paper to keep the top from crusting.

This is what the picture in the book looked like.....


And these are mine. It wasn't too bad I have to say.