Chocolate Eclairs – Eggless and vegan

  For this month’s Baking partners challenge we has to make Eclairs , I opt to make a eggless version . Although , it didn’t rise much , but it was so delicious…

    An éclair is an oblong pastry made with choux dough filled with a cream and topped with icing. The dough which is the same as that used for profiterole is typically piped into an oblong shape with a pastry bag and baked until it is crisp and hollow inside . once cooled , the pastry then is filled with a vanilla , coffee or chocolate flavoured custard or with whipped cream or  chiboust cream and then iced with fondant icing .

 Vegan Pate a Choux

I followed the recipe from here .

Requirements :

All purpose flour – 1 cup

Sugar – 2 tbs

Salt – ¼ tsp

Baking powder – ¼ tsp

Oil – 2 tbs

Water – 1 cup

 Equivalent of 4 eggs , 2 tbs Ener – G egg replacer whipped until stiff with 1/3 cup water

I used the below instead :

Oil – 1 tbs

Vinegar – 1 tbs

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Cornflour – 1 tsp

Plain soda water – ¼ cup

Method :

 Combine oil , vinegar , baking powder , cornflour and water in a bowl.

Mix together flour , salt , Sugar, baking powder well.

In a sauce pan , bring water and oil to boil , stirring continuously.

Add the dry mixture and stir continuously  until the dough forms a ball that pulls away from the sides and the spoon and is smooth .

Remove from the heat and add the egg replacer in three portions , beating well after each addition until the dough is glossy , smooth and pulls away from sides.

Using a pastry bag , dispense the choux paste onto a parchment lined or nonstick baking tray . Alternatively , you may use two spoons  to form éclairs shapes or simply drop spoonful to form puffs.

 Bake at a preheated oven @ convection mode of  220* C for 20 minutes.

Let it cool in wire rack.

Chocolate sauce :

 Chocolate - 1/2 cup

Warm water - 1/8 cup

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Corn flour - 1 tbs

 mix all together to a thick paste like consistency and apply on each eclair. 

chocolate eclairs are ready to serve.