Chocolate Eclairs

Ingredients:

    For Pastry: 

Flour  - 2 oz ( 4 tblspn)
Butter  - 2 oz  (50 g)
Eggs -  2
Water  - 4 oz

   For Cream Filling: 

Whipped cream  - 1 cup
Icing sugar  - 1 oz ( 2 tbspn)

  For Chocolate Icing: 

Milk  - 1 tblspn
Butter  - 1 oz 

Cocoa Powder -  2 tblspn

Cooking Chocolate  - 2 tblspn

Icing Sugar  - 4 oz
Whipped Cream -  2 tblspn
Water  - 1 tblspn

 

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 250°C. 
2. Add water in a pan and boil, then add butter to it. When the butter melts, take off the heat and mix in all the flour very quickly till it joins together.
3. add the eggs gradually and then put back on heat and mix till a soft dough forms. 
4. Let the mixture cool and add it to a piping bag and pipe onto a baking sheet into long cylinders of 3 inches, then bake for 20 minutes.
5. For cream filling, beat both the ingredients and put in a piping bag and let it cool in the fridge.
6. For chocolate icing, mix butter, milk, cocoa powder and cooking chocolate in a saucepan till smooth. Add icing sugar and water. Take it off the heat and add cream.
7. When the eclairs are cooked, let them cool, then cut in half lengthwise and pipe in the cream. Then add the chocolate icing onto the top. Ready!! Makes 6-8.