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Monday, September 1, 2008

Eclairs – Daring Bakers

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to participate in a Daring Bakers Challenge. But I was excited to see this months challenge was eclairs. I’ve never made eclairs but really enjoyed eating them in the past. This month really flew by. I made these eclairs last weekend with plenty of time to write up my post. Then we had some family members in town and I just couldn’t find time to write this up until today. So I am a day late on posting, but better late than never!

I followed the recipe exactly for the dough and the chocolate glaze. For the pastry cream, I was worried that chocolate would make the eclair too chocolatey (is there such a thing? I say no, but hubby thinks there is).

I decided to do a raspberry pastry cream, but didn’t have raspberries on hand at the time I made it. Instead did vanilla pastry cream. For half of the pastry cream, I mixed in some mushed up raspberries after sending hubby to the store for me 🙂 The other half got the vanilla pastry cream.

I myself am not a huge fan of pastry cream. I much prefer whipped cream in the center of eclairs.

As I mentioned, I followed the recipe exactly for the dough. That includes the timing and the propping of the door with a wooden spoon. Based on what other Daring Bakers had said, I decided to cut slits into the eclairs immediately after baking and then letting them cool in the cooling oven. The ones that didn’t deflate were wonderfully hollow.

At first, I had the oven door entirely open but I did notice the eclairs were starting to deflate, so I closed the oven door and then propped it open to let them cool. The eclairs that were very close to the door did deflate while the others did not.

Thanks to our hosts (Tony Tahhan and Meeta) this month for choosing such a great recipe. I definitely enjoyed making the eclairs, although I doubt I’d make them again. It was a significant amount of work and hubby wasn’t crazy about them.

I’m not going to post the recipes here, click through to the hosts’ posts to see the recipe. The recipe I used for the pastry cream can be found here. As I mentioned, I didn’t have raspberries when I made it so I just left them out. Once it was completely cooled, I added 1 pint of smashed raspberries to 1/2 of the cream.

This chocolate glaze was amazing. I made 1/2 of the chocolate syrup recipe and it was perfect for the glaze. The leftover glaze was used on bread and then mixed with whipped cream for frosting.

Dessert, Other

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stephchows — December 4, 2009 at 2:01 pm

WOW total sugar coma! I love that it’s a PB cookie with a whole PB cup put into it!! Such a fun idea 🙂
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birdutmasali — December 4, 2009 at 3:32 pm

and peanut butter
and chocolate
and aMrshmallows
süpppppeer 🙂
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Jelli Bean — December 4, 2009 at 3:38 pm

Considering it’s not even 10am and I’ve just polished off my 4th cheesecake brownie, I’d better stay as far away from these cookies as possible. They look phenomenal.
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Ingrid — December 4, 2009 at 7:01 pm

Looks good. I bet they’d be super festive looking with the holiday m&ms.

Happy Friday!
~ingrid
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nutmegnanny — December 5, 2009 at 1:26 am

These look sugary and delicious 🙂 I tend to find mini M&M’s either in the check out lane or at Christmas I find them over where they have little stocking stuffer candy.
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Molly Jean — December 5, 2009 at 2:49 am

I have the sugar shakes just thinking about these 🙂 They are waaaay too cute!
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Julie — December 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm

I’d love that sugar party in my mouth…wow!
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oneordinaryday — December 8, 2009 at 1:53 pm

My kiddos would be all over this. All that candy PLUS a cookie?! They’d love it! LOL
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oneordinaryday — December 8, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Oh – the mini m&ms? I can usu. only find them in the check-out aisles in the small tubes. I haven’t seen them in bags in a long time.
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Jen — December 8, 2009 at 2:36 pm

I’ll have to look up by the checkout next time I need mini M&Ms. I was definitely looking for a bag…
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Amy — December 8, 2009 at 10:12 pm

OMG your pictures are TDF
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Lisa — December 8, 2009 at 11:33 pm

The only place I can find M&M minis now is in the bulk candy aisle. I haven’t seen them in any sort of packaging in ages.
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bridget {bake at 350} — January 3, 2010 at 1:03 am

“super sugar overload cookies” sound good to me! 🙂 Thanks for linking!
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Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com} — January 3, 2010 at 3:40 am

Very Clever!
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Katie — January 7, 2010 at 5:04 pm

Wow those look great, I’ll have to try them. I love your photography!
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