Ingredients
Pastry:
- 1 cup water
- 1 stick margarine or butter
- 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
- 4 eggs
Filling:
- 3 cups milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
Icing:
- 2 (1-ounce) squares chocolate
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup whipping cream
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Heat water and margarine or butter to boiling point. Add flour and stir constantly until mixture is smooth and forms a ball when tested in cold water. Remove from heat and let cool. Beat in 4 eggs, one at a time. Drop dough from teaspoon to form small eclairs onto greased cookie sheet. Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until light brown. Set aside to cool. Prepare filling by combining milk, sugar, salt and flour; cook slowly until thickens. Add 3 beaten eggs and continue to cook until mixture is even thicker. Remove from heat, cool and add vanilla.
With a serrated knife, slice pastry puffs lengthwise, but not all the way through. Pipe custard mixture into the center. Melt chocolate for icing, add sugar and cream. Cook over medium heat until soft ball stage. Let cool and beat until smooth. Ice tops of the eclairs.
Photo: Mini Chocolate Eclairs Recipe

















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By CozyBaking
on September 18, 2012
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these eclairs are amazing...everyone in my family loved em, i just substituted the custard filling with cream filling and it tasted even better but thats only because im not a big fan of custard.
By carman28460_111...
sneads ferry, NC
on July 24, 2012
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Great eclairs and very easy to make. Another wonderful recipe from Paula. Thanks
By iimald1964
on July 18, 2012
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This is the first time I made eclairs. This recipe was a great hit with my family. I'm the baker of the family and they just though that I just made cookies. Well surprise. They thought they were from a bakery. Yippee. Only one thing (that's why no 5 stars it took longer than I anticipated. Just an FYI...I did check the youtube video to make sure I made this correctly...also a great big help. Thanks for the recipe.
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