Eclairs (Stef)

By SScheer65

Ingredients

• Pastry:
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 cup flour
• 4 eggs
• Filling:
• Prepare custard mix according to package directions
• 1 envelope custard mix
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 cups milk

Details

Servings 12

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease cookie sheets.

In saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil water, butter, salt and sugar. Add flour; with wooden spoon, stir until mixture leaves sides of pan. Remove from heat. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well until batter is smooth; place pastry in a bag with a 1" round tip and pipe 3 1/2" long cylinders onto cookie sheet. Bake 12 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and bake 15-16 minutes or until golden. Cool on rack.

Meanwhile prepare custard mixture. Cover; chill.

When completely cooled; cut off tops of eclairs and fill with custard. Melt 2 squares of milk chocolate and spread on the tops of eclairs. Replace tops. Chill until serving time.