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Homemade Eclairs Recipe
This Homemade Eclairs recipe will teach you the importance of ratios and weight — and you'll get perfect, delicious ganache-dipped eclairs filled with pastry cream out of it too!
Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
1 hr 35 mins
Servings: 23 3-Inch Eclairs
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
French
Ingredients
- ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons (7floz/200ml) water
- 1¼ cups (10floz/283ml) whole milk
- 1 cup (8floz/227ml) heavy cream
- 7 tablespoons (3.5oz/100g) butter
- 2 tablespoons (0.9oz/25g) granulated sugar
- pinch of salt
- pinch of salt
- pinch of salt
- 1 ⅓ cups (8oz/227g) dark chocolate, chopped
- ¾ cup (3.5oz/100g) bread flour
- 1 vanilla bean, or vanilla extract
- 4 large (7oz/200g) eggs
- 4 large egg yolks
- 3 tablespoons (0.7/21g) cornstarch
- ¼ cup (1.8oz/50g) granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons (1oz/28g) butter, softened