This month's recipe was chosen by Meeta of What's for Lunch Honey? and her co-host, Tony of Olive Juice. A chocolate eclair recipe from Pierre Hermé!
I have made cream puffs many times in my life and I have even blogged about them. The challenging part to me was actually forming the pastry dough into an eclair shape. EH, I don't think I did too awful bad.
The day I made the eclairs was the day we had a family tragedy and I didn't get great photos. I was thinking because we like to eat these, I would make them again, but alas, I didn't get the chance. I probably will attempt the eclair shape again. I didn't have horrible luck. It isn't often that I mess up cream puff dough (but it can happen!). My eclairs puffed up nicely and for the pastry cream I used the one I posted here - with butterscotch schnapps - totally by accident! I was going to use amaretto in the pastry cream and I grabbed the wrong bottle! Oh well, the pastry cream tasted great anyway!
To see what my fellow Daring Bakers did with their challenge this month, check out the blogroll. I had some pretty amazing previews in our DB Challenge forum so you don't want to miss out!
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