How to Bake Cappuccino Eclairs
Yields: 6-8 eclairs
Preparation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 40 mins
Ingredients needed to make Cappuccino Eclairs:
For the pastry:
- 4 oz all purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 3 eggs
- 4 fl oz water
- 2 ½ oz unsalted butter
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- Pinch of salt
For the filling:
- 1 fl oz strong coffee
- 10 ½ fl oz double cream
- 2 oz icing sugar
- 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out
For the topping:
- 6 oz icing sugar
- 2 oz unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp double cream
- 1 fl oz extra strong coffee
- 4 oz soft dark brown sugar
Cooking instructions for Cappuccino Eclairs:
- Warm up your oven to 400 degrees F.
- To make the pastry, add a knob of butter into a saucepan, along with water and heat it until it begins to boil.
- Remove the pan from heat once the butter melts and fold in the flour, along with a dash of ground ginger.
- Continue to beat the mixture with a wooden spoon, until it begins to leave the sides of the pan and clump together.
- Crack the eggs, in sequence, and continue to whisk them into the mixture until all of them blend together into a uniform mixture.
- Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag and set aside for 5-10 minutes to let it cool down.
- Dust a baking sheet generously with flour and pipe 6-8 strips of dough onto it, spaced about 2’’ apart.
- Bake them in the oven for half an hour or until they turn crispy golden brown.
- Remove from heat and allow it to cool down.
- Pour the cream into the bowl fitted to a stand mixer and add the scraped vanilla seeds to it.
- Whisk them together until they form soft yet firm peaks.
- Beat in icing sugar, along with a splash of coffee and blend them into a uniform mixture.
- Slice the eclairs crosswise, into two equal halves pipe the coffee cream onto one half.
- Cover it with the other half and make rest of the éclair sandwiches in a similar fashion.
- To make the topping, dump all its ingredients, except icing sugar, into a saucepan and heat the mixture over slow flame until the sugar dissolves.
- Remove the pan from heat and stir in the icing sugar until well combined.
- Set aside to cool completely, stirring at times, until it thickens when cooled.
- Top the eclairs with the above mixture and serve right away.
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