Showing posts with label valentines gift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentines gift. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Easy homemade eclairs

Hello my beloved and Happy Valentines day!!! I know we are still a day away, but when you're in love, it's Valentines day EVERYDAY! I actually started the beginning of this week being extra sweet to my sweety and making extra special dinners. Tonight after dinner, we watched a cheesy valentines movie and my hubby mentioned that he was craving something sweet. I turned to him and asked him what he wanted and that I would make him anything.  He started acting like a girl saying, " I don't know, I don't know..." So I gave him some suggestions and one of them was eclairs. He got excited and said he wanted me to make him 10!! But I said relax count Chocula...I'm going to make us like 2... So off I went to the kitchen to bake some love for my love and it's super easy to make so I thought as a sweet Valentines gift to you all I would share my recipe; here it is, enjoy and HAPPY VALENTINES DAY:

Ingredients:

4 eggs (large)
1 cup flour
1/2 cup butter
1 cup water

Prep:
Oven 425 degrees Fahrenheit, line cookie sheet with parchment paper

Directions:
1. In a medium saucepan, put 1 cup water and 1/2 cup butter over heat, until butter is completely melted.

2. Add flour and mix until it becomes dough then remove it from heat and put it in a mixing bowl.

3. Mix 4 eggs ( one at a time) until they are mixed well

4. Put mixture in a piping bag and on your cookie sheet (lined with parchment paper), pipe eclairs 3  1/2 " long

5. Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown

6. Cool, cut eclairs in half and put filling ( you could make your own custard, but I just take the easy route and use vanilla pudding).

Icing: to make the chocolate on top, just get some semi sweet chocolate chips and heat in a saucepan until melted and then dip tops of eclairs, let cool and enjoy!! To be honest they are delicous even without the icing...mmmmmmmmmm