And here we are.. Wednesday Weakness. I HAD to have a few of these. Really, its not hard, especially if they are nice and cold. They taste SO good. On my way home I was telling my friend that I really wasn't an eclair fan because I don't like the taste of the dough.. BUT COLD!!?? oh yea, enough said ;)
It was fun filling these up and having them expand in your hand but even funner ( yes, 'funner' is a word in my vocabulary) to put that chocolate glacage on the top. These are filled with a pastry cream which is what an eclair typically is filled with. The Chef made a Creme Chantilly that looked awesome! I didn't get the chance to taste it but heavy cream with confectioners sugar and vanilla... something tells me its delicious! You can have a lot of fun decorating the cream puffs and eclairs if you cut them in half and fill. Try it out, be creative :)
The first part of our day was creating our Creme Brulee. Baking = Patience people :). The Creme Brulee is created, strained and filled and then placed in the oven in a water bath. We Brulee these tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to finishing those. I hope we get to use the torch! Tee hee...We move on to flan and cheesecake this week as well. Still working with different types of creams. I know a special someone who keeps asking me when the Cheesecake is coming.. Cindy!! Its coming, its coming and I hope to make ya proud. Cream Cheese makes everything better. I will get back to you on Friday!
Quick Tip of the day: when you create a sugar and egg mix, the sugar pulls the moisture out of the egg. This is the key to Creme's!
I hope you are enjoying the blog! Please tell me what else you would like to see on here. I will try to give you tips as I learn them so you can in turn use them on your creations. I hope this site is helpful to you!
I will cut today's a little short. I am happy to inform that I Aced both my quizzes. whew! Really happy about that, but still wishing I had done better! ha...
Write to ya soon!
XO
I would like to see some dollar signs where we can contribute money to you so you keep this wonderful information coming! I am baking every day because of this blog and I now wear an apron with a bow on it even when I'm not in my kitchen - all thanks to you!
ReplyDeleteWell, first of all let me say, there are 6 paragraphs on your bloggie and I had to read each one over at least twice if not more from losing my place (reason)...I kept going back to the picture of those wonderful and creativly outstanding ECLAIRS & PUFFS. With pictures and recipies like that you would have no problem authoring a baking book.
ReplyDeleteWhen your right your right...Funner IS a word ;)
Lets add Authoring to it :)
Your comment on CHEESECAKE has already made me proud so bake on Lil "M" bake on!!!!! By the way, I trust there will be cherries involved ;)
Congrats on your test, knew you could do it now remember...JUST BREATHE :0
xoxo :)
Congratulations on your quizzes!! Whoo-hoo! You are soooo very on your way!!! The eclairs look stupendously yummy!! One question...funner?? (lol...that reminded me of Legally Blonde and I cracked up!) muah! xoxo
ReplyDeleteThank you guys for the awesome comments! I am slowly getting to a point where I think I can turn this into something that will allow me to bake more and give more info! Thanks again for all this support!! Fuel! Fuel ;)
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