Eclairs and profiteroles are small pastries made from choux pastry. Having prepared this French dessert, you should also decorate it beautifully and serve it to the table. How to do this and we will talk in this review.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
It is worth noting that eclairs can be completely different. For example, they are made with salty fillings like meat, mushroom and cheese. These are served with broth or as a snack before dinner. They can also be empty, for example, rings, and served with first courses (soups, borscht), like donuts. But most of all, profiteroles in the form of a dessert with ice cream, sweet cream, cream are acceptable and loved for our cuisine. Sweet profiteroles, cut in half and fasten with caramel, cream or chocolate sauce.
Depending on the filling chosen, this is how the dough should be prepared in order to create a balanced taste of the product. It can be sweet, neutral, or slightly salty. In this review, I will offer a variant of the simplest and most affordable way to decorate eclairs with sweet cream and chocolate icing. It will take you a minimum of time to complete it, and the available products will be used.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 260 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- Baked eclairs - 15 pcs.
- Eggs - for protein cream
- Chocolate - 100 g
- Sugar - 50 g
- Drinking water - 75 ml
- Coconut flakes - 1 tablespoon
Step-by-step recipe for decorating eclairs
1. This recipe assumes that the eclairs are already baked and the cream is made. You can read how to make eclairs and protein cream on our website. But I will briefly remind you. So, when the eclairs are ready, break the chocolate into pieces, put it in a clean bowl, which you place on a container of water. Melt the chocolate in a water bath to a liquid consistency, but do not bring it to a boil.
2. Cut the finished chilled eclairs in half lengthwise. They are baked as follows. The butter is melted. It is divorced with water and heated to 90 degrees. Flour is poured and the dough is well kneaded. The bowl is removed from the heat and the eggs are mixed in one by one. You can find a more detailed recipe for making eclairs on the pages of the site.
3. So, prepare the coconut and melted chocolate.
4. Dip the eclair caps in the melted chocolate so that they are completely covered with icing.
5. While the chocolate is hot, sprinkle it with coconut. At this point, you should have a cream ready, which is laid out on the first half of the eclairs. In this recipe, I used a protein cream. To prepare it, you need to beat the egg whites and add caramel from them, which is made from water and sugar. But you can also use custard cream. To do this, the eggs are ground with sugar, milk is poured into it and brought to a boil. Starch is poured in a thin stream, cooled and butter is added. Sour cream is also suitable. You can read recipes for all types of creams on the website.
6. Cover the halves of the cream-filled eclairs with the lids with chocolate icing.
7. Eclairs are ready and you can serve them to the table.
See also a video recipe for how to decorate eclairs simply and beautifully?
