Coffee eclair
– choux pastry,
– pastry cream,
– fondant pâtissier,
– sugar paste.
Materials used
– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat
– Pastry bags
– Fluted tip
– Ribbon piping
– Garnishing tip
Ingredients
Choux pastry
✔60g water
✔60g milk
✔70g flour
✔55g butter
✔Salt
✔1 teaspoon sugar
✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)
Pastry cream
✔300g milk
✔60 g sugar
✔3 egg yolks
✔20 g cornstarch
✔25 g butter
✔Coffee extract
Assembly
✔Sugar paste
✔Coffee extract
✔ White pastry fondant
The recipe
For 5-6 eclairs
Choux pastry
✔60g water
✔60g milk
✔70g flour
✔55g butter
✔Salt
✔1 teaspoon sugar
✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)
Heat the water, milk, butter, salt and sugar in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the flour. Dry out the dough . Pour into a bowl and then gradually add the beaten eggs. Poach the choux pastry onto a micro-perforated mat with a fluted tip. Bake at 180°C for 35 to 40 minutes, then cool on a wire rack.
Pastry cream
✔300g milk
✔60 g sugar
✔3 egg yolks
✔20 g cornstarch
✔25 g butter
✔Coffee extract
In a saucepan, bring the milk to the boil. In a bowl, mix the yolks with the caster sugar. Add the cornflour. Pour in the hot milk, then return everything to the saucepan. Cook, stirring constantly. The cream will thicken. Remove from the heat, add the chopped butter and coffee extract. Strain and set aside in a cool place.
Take the crème pâtissière and loosen it a little by stirring with a spatula, then line a pastry bag fitted with a piping tip. Make two holes under each éclair and fill with coffee pastry cream.
Heat a little white fondant in a bain-marie. Be careful not to exceed 40°C. You may wish to add a little water (1 to 2 teaspoons). Pour a little white fondant into a small bowl and add coffee extract. Measure out according to desired color. Line a piping bag with the colored fondant and another piping bag fitted with a ribbon tip for the white fondant.
Cover the eclairs with the ribbon tip for the white fondant, then immediately pipe horizontal lines with the colored fondant. Using a wooden skewer, trace the spider’s web.
