Walnut eclairs

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Ingredients for the dough.

2. STEP 2

   

   Pour water into the pan, add salt and chopped butter.

3. STEP 3

   

   Place the pan on the fire and bring the mixture to a boil.

4. STEP 4

   

   Pour all the flour into the boiling mixture and, without removing from the heat, brew the dough for 2-3 minutes. Stir the mixture constantly. The finished dough should come together and not stick to the walls. Let the dough cool until warm.

5. STEP 5

   

   Beat all the eggs into the cooled dough, one at a time. Add the next egg only when the previous one is completely incorporated. Mix with a regular wooden spoon or mixer at minimum speed.

6. STEP 6

   

   The finished dough should be soft and hold its shape well.

7. STEP 7

   

   Fill a pastry bag or syringe with a star or regular round tip with the dough and squeeze the dough onto a baking sheet in the shape of eclairs. If you don’t have a bag or a syringe, spoon out the dough with a regular spoon, then you will get small profiteroles. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 C for about 20 minutes. Do not open the oven while baking.

8. STEP 8

   

   Let it cool completely.

9. STEP 9

   

   Ingredients for cream.

10. STEP 10

    

    We separate the eggs into yolks and whites (we don't need whites). Mix the yolks with sugar, add milk and brew the mixture over low heat until thickened. Be sure to constantly stir the mixture so that the yolks do not curl, or brew the mixture in a water bath. Let the finished cream cool completely.

11. STEP 11

    

    Beat butter at room temperature until fluffy.

12. STEP 12

    

    Add the yolk cream in small portions, constantly whisking the cream. Grind the peanuts (roasted and peeled) into fine crumbs and add to the cream.

13. STEP 13

    

    Fill a pastry bag with a small round tip with the finished cream (the diameter of the tip should be sufficient to allow pieces of nuts to pass through).

14. STEP 14

    

    Fill the eclairs with cream.

15. STEP 15

    

    Let's prepare the glaze.

16. STEP 16

    

    Melt the chocolate with cream and add powdered sugar (the mixture must be warm for the powdered sugar to dissolve). Stir until smooth. Let the glaze cool.

17. STEP 17

    

    Cover the eclairs with glaze and sprinkle chopped nuts on top if desired. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

miLiSa

16.10.2023

4.8

Thank you! The eclairs turned out well!

Valli

16.10.2023

4.5

miLiSa, I'm glad!

Irisha

16.10.2023

4.5

MOTHER OF A SWEET TOOTH, thank you, I hope the recipe comes in handy :) my sister gave me the recipe for this dough, for which I am very grateful to her, and it turned out the first time, so if I prepare choux pastry, this is the only way

I love to cook

16.10.2023

4.5

Hello! Please tell me how many pieces of eclairs you get for 1 serving, otherwise it’s not clear in the recipes or I didn’t see it? You can bake it for 20, and then eat it for a week. Thank you