Pastry Time

There's a bakery in Weaverville, NC, the  Well Bread Bakery, and they have the best eclairs. The best part is they are the diameter of a small plate. As I was perusing one of my cookbooks I found a recipe for chocolate eclairs. The first statement under the recipe read something like this; eclairs are no more work than  iced cupcakes. Sounds easy enough doesn't it? The first step is to make the pastry dough, after it was allowed to set for an hour you pipe the dough onto a cookie sheet and bake.

Twenty minutes later out came these golden pastries. So far it's going well and been rather easy, onto making the custard filling. That was a bit tedious and it was taking a long time to cool so I placed it in the fridge and off to bed I went.

When I arrived home from work I assembled the eclairs and melted the chocolate for the glaze. Then we ate them!!! The pastry was tasty and the custard filling was really good. Obviously the size of my eclairs paled in comparison to the bakery's and they also lacked a little in the visually stimulating department. I will have to say this is one of those things where going to get them is better than knowing you can make them.