Sweet "lightning" - delicate custard eclairs with chocolate. Eclairs are one of the most popular and favorite pastries of adults and children in all parts of the world. Preparing eclairs from the custard and cream, and top with white or brown chocolate glaze. By the way, from the French language the word "eclair" is translated as "lightning". Perhaps, it was the luster of the glaze that gave this dessert such an unusual name. But, most likely, it arose because the custard cakes are instantly evaporated from the plate, as soon as you put it on the table - they are so delicious and tender. Little is known about the origin of the custard eclairs. Since the first mention of eclairs appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century in France, it is believed that this country is their homeland, and the creation of their recipe is attributed to the chef of the ruling royal family, culinary Marie Antoine Karem. Now this recipe is known and loved all over the world. The Germans call the custard cake in their own way - "hare paw", "love bone" or "coffee bar". And in the United States, eclairs are also called oblong donuts with stuffing. At brewed cakes (eclairs) only one lack - high caloric content. But sometimes you can forget about it and enjoy a wonderful taste.
Ingredients:- Wheat flour 1 tbsp.
- Eggs chicken 3 pcs.
- Butter 100 g
- Boiled water 0.2 l
- Salt 1 tsp.
- Condensed milk 500g
- Walnut 150 g
- Light raisins 100 g
- Cocoa powder 2 tsp.
- Sour cream 2 tbsp. l.
- Sugar powder 30 g
- Butter 50 g
- Step 1 To prepare the brewed eclairs, take: eggs, flour, butter, and for the filling condensed milk, raisins and walnuts.
- Step 2 Pour water into the pan, put 1 tsp. salt, butter and bring to a boil.
- Step 3 Add the sifted flour.
- Step 4 Stir until the lumps disappear, without taking off from the fire for 2-3 minutes.
- Step 5 Dough to cool down to 70 C and enter one egg - it should be a homogeneous mass without lumps.
- Step 6 Lubricate the baking sheet with butter and through a cornet or confectioner's bag to dough the dough for the eclairs.
- Step 7 Bake in a preheated oven for up to 180 ° C for 30 minutes.
- Step 8 Prepare the filling - mix the condensed milk, cut walnuts, washed and dried raisins.
- Step 9 Make an incision on each eclair. A hole is obtained for the filling.
- Step 10 Through the confectioner's bag or through a bag of thick paper, put the filling into the cake.
- Step 11 To decorate the cakes eclairs, prepare a sweet - mix slowly on sour cream, cocoa, sugar powder and at the end add butter.
- Step 12 Through a bag or bag with a very thin hole, water the eclairs with a sweet.