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.

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14 Responses to “Boston Cream Pie Cheesecake”

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    Steph — November 28, 2012 at 7:39 am

    This is heavenly!!!

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    Eva @ Eva Bakes — November 28, 2012 at 8:42 am

    This looks amazing!

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    Bee — November 28, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    I LOVE Boston Cream pie, and I do love the custard filling but… I never turn down a good cheesecake! This is lovely.

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    Ana Fleischmann — November 28, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    OMG, it looks SO scrumptious! Trying it very soon!!

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    Mal — November 28, 2012 at 1:03 pm

    Yum! I’d love a slice of this right now

    Mal @ The Chic Geek

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    Rachel @ Baked by Rachel — November 28, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Yours looks fantastic! So funny we both had a similar idea.

    • beantownbaker — November 28th, 2012 @ 9:34 pm

      I know! It’s always crazy when stuff like that happens.

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    Tim — November 29, 2012 at 6:59 am

    Being from Boston, I appreciate this Boston Cream Pie Cheesecake!

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    Shannon G — November 29, 2012 at 10:51 am

    such a great-looking dessert! great minds 😉

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    Megan — November 29, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    That looks amazing. I love pastry cream and am kind of surprised you don’t like it… even really good pastry cream? (There’s a lot of bad pastry cream out there.)

    • beantownbaker — November 30th, 2012 @ 10:38 am

      Yea, it’s really a texture thing for me. I don’t like yogurt for the same reason. Although, maybe I’ve just never had good pastry cream…

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    Tracy — December 3, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    I love the look of this pie/cake! Seeing the sponge layers and the cheesecake layer makes for an impressive looking cake!

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    zahraa saab — May 13, 2014 at 3:18 pm

    Hi there ! I was wondering after refrigerating the cheesecake overnight, how much do i have to freeze it for ??? Thank u ! 🙂

    • beantownbaker — May 17th, 2014 @ 6:10 pm

      Just for a couple hours. It is just to make it more firm.

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