CHOCOLATE ECLAIR ICING & FILLING

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This Chocolate Eclair filling recipe goes together with Pol Martin's Cream Puff Dough "Recipe #389840" You will be making professional looking eclairs for any affair :)

Provided by daisygrl64

Categories     Dessert

Time 25m

Yield 12 eclairs

Number Of Ingredients 5

2 cups heavy cream, cold
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons icing sugar
4 ounces semisweet chocolate, good quality
1 tablespoon cold water

Steps:

  • pour cream and vanilla in a bowl of electric mixer. beat until firm. add icing sugar and beat another 30 seconds, but no longer. set aside in refrigerator.
  • place chocolate in stainless steel bowl. set over saucepan half-filled with hot water. check that bowl does not touch water. melt over very low heat.
  • when melted, thin chocolate with 1 tbsp cold water. dip tops of eclairs in warm chocolate. if preferred, spread chocolate with spatula.
  • when chocolate on tops of eclair has set, carefully slice shells open using knife with serrated blade. fill with whipped cream and serve.

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