Ingredients for - Eclairs with mirrored icing and cream
How to cook deliciously - Eclairs with mirrored icing and cream
1 . Stage
To make the custard dough, mix water with sugar, salt and diced butter, bring to a boil.
2 . Stage
Remove the mixture from the fire and add all the sifted flour. Stir thoroughly so that no dry flour particles remain. The dough should have this consistency:
3 . Stage
Then return the ladle with the dough to a low heat and let it dry for a few minutes. The dough should roll into a ball, and a small crust should form on the bottom. In this case the dough will absorb more eggs and will rise better.
4 . Stage
For the custard batter, mix the eggs with a whisk until smooth and strain through a sieve.
5 . Stage
Put the hot dough into the mixer bowl, add the eggs to the hot dough a little at a time, kneading the dough until smooth, and only then add the next portion of eggs. The finished dough should be completely smooth and shiny.
6 . Stage
Place the éclairs with a piping bag on a baking tray lined with baking paper or a silicone mat. Brush the éclairs with the beaten egg and a pinch of salt and whisked together. Heat the oven to 230 C, put the tray on, after 5 minutes reduce the temperature to 180 C, bake until golden. Do not open the oven! Eclairs are better to overbake than they will be soggy inside!!!
7 . Stage
To make the cream I use fine sugar. (If you use regular sugar, increase the amount a little)
8 . Stage
Mix 100 ml cream with the sugar, egg yolks and vanilla sugar until smooth. Bring 100 ml of cream to the boil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan, gently fold the above mixture into the boiling cream, stirring constantly, and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat, and cool.
9 . Stage
Lightly beat the softened butter. Add the butter a spoonful at a time to the chilled cream, continuing to whisk. Fill the cooled eclairs with the cream using a piping bag, making a piercing.
10 . Stage
Soak the gelatin in cold water. Boil the sugar syrup until a soft ball is tested. In parallel, slowly heat the cream with the glucose, add the syrup to the heated cream, add the cocoa while stirring constantly and bring to a boil. Add the pre-cooked gelatin to the hot glaze, stir, strain. Cover the eclairs with the warm glaze.