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Eclairs with custard and cherry

Posted date : 01.02.2016 In Dessert, Different dishes

I really like eclairs with custard, but after a bad experience as a child, choux pastry scared me :). Recently, I took a chance and realized that it was very easy and pretty fast and since I suffered trying new recipes with choux pastry. In this recipe, I collected everything that I love — the custard with a hint of citrus and cherry. I was very pleased with the results, I recommend to cook:).

Ingredients

Choux pastry:

Egg chicken — 4

The water — 1 tbsp.

Butter — 100 g

Flour — 1 cup

Salt — a pinch

Custard:

Egg yolk — 5

Sugar — 1 cup

Milk — 1 cup

vanilla — to taste

Starch — 2 tablespoons

Butter — 200 g

Cherries (pitted) — 100 g

zest of half an orange

Note

1. To prepare the custard dough in a pan melt the butter with water and a pinch of salt. Then quickly Pour all the flour and mix with a spatula pastry, warm up for 1 minute and remove from heat. We reserve the dough for 10 minutes to cool, then, whisking constantly, one is driven into the egg batter. Only when the egg is completely mixed into the test drive next. The dough must acquire a silky, smooth, uniform consistency.

2. shift the finished dough in a pastry bag and is deposited on the laid paper baking pan small band width of not more than 1 cm. We send in a preheated 180 degree oven for 10 minutes, then opens the door for a couple of millimeters steam outlet and leave baked eclairs with the door open for another 20 — 30 minutes until golden brown. Ready-made cakes cool for on the grid.

3. To prepare the cream, beat egg yolks with sugar until white, add the starch with vanilla and then the milk. Now, over low heat, stirring constantly, bring the mixture to a thick state. Immediately remove from heat and cool for fully. If the cream has turned lumps, it can be beat with a mixer. In the cooled cream add chopped into pieces of butter and whisk with a mixer until smooth. Add the orange zest and stir gently.

4. eclairs carefully cut from the side, gently fill with cream with a spoon or pastry bag. Inside put a couple of cherries. The surface of the cover ?clairs with chocolate or melted chocolate. Before serving eclairs need to cool in the refrigerator. Bon Appetit!

Translated by site: chocolate-kiss.ru