Custardy Chocolate Éclair Cake | In The Kitchen With | Food52

Food52 Resident Carolina Gelen shares a recipe that has all the same components of a chocolate éclair—pastry! custard! ganache!—with way less worry than the French classic. No more individual portions and instead, bake big squares of pâte à choux and fill them with pastry cream like a layer cake. Yum! GET THE RECIPE ►► https://f52.co/3JBkI3h

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PREP TIME: 11 hours
COOK TIME: 55 minutes
SERVES: 9

INGREDIENTS

Pastry Cream:
1/2 cup (99 grams) granulated sugar
4 large egg yolks
1/3 cup (37 grams) cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 cups (341 grams) whole milk
1/2 cup (114 grams) heavy cream
1/2 vanilla bean (or ½ teaspoon vanilla extract)
2 tablespoons (29 grams) unsalted butter, cubed

Pâte à Choux:
1/2 cup (114 grams) whole milk
1/4 cup (57 grams) unsalted butter
1 teaspoon (4 grams) fine sea salt
1 1/2 cups (180 grams) bread flour (or all-purpose flour)
5 large eggs (have an extra 2 on hand, just in case)

Chocolate Ganache:
1 cup (227 grams) heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup (170 grams) chopped dark or semisweet chocolate (or chips)

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