These are the best homemade Chocolate Eclairs you will ever have. It’s an original French recipe! Light and airy Pâte à Choux filled with super creamy chocolate cream filling and topped with delicious chocolate ganache.
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Chocolate Eclairs are a French classic. French baking goods are exquisite and very special. Don’t you think? Croissant, Crème brûlée, Chocolate Soufflé, and so on and so on. Everything super delicious and unique.
France is playing in the top baking league. There is no doubt.
What are Chocolate Eclairs?
Maybe you know Chocolate Cream Puffs? It is almost the same thing. The puff pastry is the same and also the ganache. Just the filling is different and also the shape.
I can’t tell for sure whether I prefer Cream Puffs or Chocolate Eclairs. I love both. Both are super delicious. But I grew up with Chocolate Eclairs. So maybe I like Chocolate Eclairs a tiny little bit more.
I had a lot of Chocolate Eclairs in my childhood. I remember like it was yesterday, how happy I always was when my mother brought some Chocolate Eclairs from our favorite bakery in town. It’s really hard to describe how awesome they were.
The chocolate filling was like a creamier version of pudding. The puff pastry was light and airy with its strong characteristic taste. And the chocolate ganache was glossy and soft.
The only difference between original French Chocolate Eclairs and the ones we got in the bakery is that the Chocolate Eclairs in the bakery had an Austrian twist.
In Austria, it is very popular to add apricot jam underneath a chocolate glaze. Like in a Sachertorte. So the Chocolate Eclairs had a thin layer of apricot jam under the chocolate ganache.
The sour taste of the apricot jam is a good fit to a sweet chocolate ganache or glaze. But I didn’t add apricot jam under the ganache because I wanted to make them authentic French and not Austrian style.
Just the 1/2 tbsp corn syrup in the ganache is not original French. It is an optional ingredient, and I added it just to get the super glossy finish. You can leave it out if you want to.
Please don’t be afraid of trying this recipe. I know that making Chocolate Eclairs can be intimidating. When you follow the directions carefully and watch the video step by step, you will master this recipe!
I got a super lovely email from a reader, and she sent me some snaps of her 10 and 7-year-old kids baking my Chocolate Cream Puffs recipe completely independently. And they looked exactly like mine! So talented and gifted!
She said that the recipe was good to follow and this enabled the kids to make them without her help, and they were a great success.
It’s definitely not the easiest recipe on my blog, but you can master it!
Just make sure that you bake the puff pastry long enough that it doesn’t collapse.
In the end, you will be very happy that you faced your fear and tried this Chocolate Eclairs recipe because they are
- chocolatey
- creamy
- light
- airy
- something special and unique
- super delicious
What is your favorite French baking recipe? Tell me in the comments below!
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Best Homemade Chocolate Eclairs
Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
1 hr 15 mins
Chill Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 40 mins
These are the best homemade Chocolate Eclairs you will ever have. It's an original French recipe! Light and airy Pâte à Choux filled with super creamy chocolate cream filling and topped with delicious chocolate ganache.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Keyword: best homemade chocolate eclairs
Servings: 18 - 20 Chocolate Eclairs
Calories: 273 kcal
Ingredients
chocolate filling
- 4 large egg yolks
- 3/8 cup granulated white sugar (75g)
- 3 tbsp cornstarch (24g)
- 2 cups milk (480ml)
- 1+1/8 cups milk chocolate, melted (7oz / 200g)
- pinch of salt
- 2+1/2 tbsp butter (35g)
Pâte à Choux
- 1 cup water (240ml)
- 1/2 cup butter (113g)
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour (120g)
- 4 large eggs
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