Eclairs - recipe (including photos)

Another recipe of eclairs but this time with sunflower oil in composition of the puffs instead of butter.

Ingredients for the dough for about 30 eclairs:

• 300 milliliters water
• 150 milliliters sunflower oil
• 200 grams of flour
• 5 big eggs

Boil the water with the sunflower oil.

Remove the pot from the fire add the flour and mix vigorously until well incorporated.
 

Let it cool.

Incorporate the eggs, one by one .

Make forms and put them in the oven first at a higher temperature ( 190 Celsius degrees for about 5-10 minutes) and after they rise, lower the temperature (150 Celsius degrees for another 10-15 minutes) and bake them until golden brown. 

Ingredients for the filling:

• 800 milliliters of milk
• 100 grams of sugar
• 100 grams cream
• 70 grams of flour
• 50 grams butter
• 5 eggs
• 1 vanilla stick
• vanilla sugar

Boil the milk with the sugar and the vanilla stick .

In another bowl beat the eggs with the vanilla sugar and slowly incorporate the flour .

Mix the milk with the eggs/flour composition and keep it at slow fire until thick like a pudding , mixing from time to time.

Let it cool.

When cooled add the butter and the cream.

Fill in the eclairs with the filling (you may decorate it with some melted chocolate).

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

Salted cheese puffs - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of flour
• 150 grams of fresh cream
• 200 milliliters of milk
• 100 grams of bacon
• 80 grams of butter
• 70 grams of salted cheese
• 20 grams of fresh yeast
• 1 spoon of sugar
• 1 egg

Mix the yeast with the sugar and add it over the flour.
Continue adding 60 grams of melted butter, fresh cream, the egg, the milk and mix.

Add the bacon (previously fried) and cheese and mix.
Let the dough rest for about 30 minutes.

Spread the dough on the table and brush the remaining melted butter over the entire dough.

Fold the dough...like in the photos.

Put the dough again in a warm place and let it rest for another 20 minutes. Repeat the operation (with the butter and folding the dough at least 3 times)

Finally spread the dough on the table and cut it finely in small squares.
Cut the dough with a form and let it rest in a warm place for another 20 minutes.

Put it in the oven at 190 degrees Celsius for 8-10 minutes or until brown.

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

Homemade cream puffs (eclairs) - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients for the dough:

• 120 milliliters of water
• 120 milliliters of milk
• 100 grams of butter
• 1 spoon of sugar
• 150 grams of flour
• 4 eggs
• salt

Mix the water with the milk, the salt, the sugar and the butter. Put the pot at slow fire for boiling.

When the composition is boiling, remove the pot from the fire and add the flour gradually,  mixing continuously  until well incorporated.

Then start adding the eggs one by one, mixing after each egg very well.

Make different forms and put them in the oven at 180 Celsius degrees for about 25 minutes. When the puffs are ready, close the fire and let them rest in the oven for about 10 minutes. Otherwise they will not be fluffy. 

Ingredients for the filling:

• 600 milliliters of milk
• 150 grams of flour
• 110 grams of sugar
• 4 eggs
• vanilla sugar

Beat the eggs.

Add the sugar, the vanilla sugar and mix.

Add the flour and mix.

Add the milk.

Put the composition at "bain-marie" until the filling becomes creamy.

Cut the forms in two and add the filling.

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here