BEST HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE ECLAIRS

These are the best homemade Chocolate Eclairs yoü will ever have. It's an original French recipe! Light and airy Pâte à Choüx filled with süper creamy chocolate cream filling and topped with delicioüs chocolate ganache.

Ingredients

• chocolate filling
• 4 large egg yolks
• 3/8 cüp granülated white sügar (75g)
• 3 tbsp cornstarch (24g)
• 2 cüps milk (480ml)
• 1+1/8 cüps milk chocolate, melted (7oz / 200g)
• pinch of salt
• 2+1/2 tbsp bütter (35g)
• Pâte à Choüx
• 1 cüp water (240ml)
• 1/2 cüp bütter (113g)
• 1 tsp sügar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cüp all-pürpose floür (120g)
• 4 large eggs
• egg wash
• 1 large egg
• 2 tbsp water
• chocolate ganache
• 3/4 cüp semi-sweet chocolate, finely chopped (4.6oz / 130g)
• 3/8 cüp heavy whipping cream (90ml)
• 1/2 tbsp corn syrüp (optional for extra gloss)

Instrüctions

1. Make the chocolate filling: In a bowl whisk egg yolks, sügar, and cornstarch to combine. In a heavy-bottomed saücepan bring milk over mediüm-high heat to a simmer. Cook for 2 minütes, stirring constantly. Stir aboüt 1/2 cüp of hot milk into the egg yolks to slowly warm it. Then poür warmed egg mixtüre slowly into the saücepan, whisking constantly. Cook üntil filling is thick, for aboüt 1-2 minütes. Whisk continüoüsly. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate and salt üntil smooth and fülly combined for aboüt 1-2 minütes. Poür throügh a mesh strainer into a bowl and let cool for aboüt 5-10 minütes. Stir occasionally. Add bütter and stir to combine. Cover with plastic wrap to prevent forming a skin. Refrigerate at least 1-2 hoürs or overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 375°F / 190°C. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
3. Make the Pâte à Choüx: In a heavy-bottomed saücepan bring water, bütter, sügar, and salt to a boil. With a wooden spoon stir in floür and cook for aboüt 2-3 minütes üntil it starts to form a film on the bottom of the pan. Transfer to a large mixing bowl and let cool aboüt 2 minütes.
4. Stir in one egg at the time. After every egg, the doügh will separate. Keep stirring üntil the doügh comes together again. In the end, the doügh will be sticky and firm enoügh to hold a stiff peak.
5. Make the egg wash: In a small cüp stir egg and water to combine. Set aside.
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