Sweet love both children and adults. When you want to pamper yourself with something delicious, you often come to mind with mouth-watering cakes. Why not cook this delicacy yourself at home? In this case, the best idea for baking is the decision to make eclairs , or, as they are also called, brewed cakes. Their advantage is that it is not too difficult to prepare eclairs. Glad your loved ones with these delicious cakes with cream prepared according to an old traditional recipe. They just melt in your mouth. 
How to cook traditional eclairs
Ingredients for dough
- 250 ml of milk
- 100 g of butter
- 150 g of flour
- a pinch of salt
- 4 eggs
Ingredients for custard
- 400 ml of milk;
- 2 egg yolks;
- 1.5 tbsp. l. flour;
- 1.5 tbsp. l. starch;
- 80 g of sugar;
- Vanillin to taste.
Preparation of the dough
Mix the milk, melted butter and salt in a saucepan. Sift the flour into this mixture and put the container on medium fire for a few minutes. In this case, stir intensively with a wooden spoon. After taking off the pan from the stove and let it cool down a little. Then start to constantly beat the mixture, adding eggs one by one. Mix until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Harvested dough pour into the confectionery bag. If you still do not have such a useful thing, then use a plastic bag, cutting off its corner. Put a baking sheet with parchment and squeeze the dough out of the sack onto it. The length of the stripes should be about 10 cm. Leave a distance between them about 5 cm. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Bake the eclairs for 25 minutes. Then take them out of the oven and make holes in them to pour in a delicate custard .
Custard preparation
Whisk yolks with sugar and vanilla whisk. Gradually pour the milk and sift the flour, without stopping to mix. Then add the starch. Make sure that there are no lumps. Place the cream in the microwave for 5 minutes at maximum power. When the cream is ready, let it cool down a bit, then fill it with eclairs. The fields are ready-made pastries with melted chocolate. Bon Appetit! Share the recipe for these traditional French pastries with your friends!
