Creative Éclairs: Over 30 fabulous flavours and easy cake-decorating ideas for choux pastry creations

by Ruth Clemens

Over 30 baking and cake decorating projects for the latest hot trend in baking – eclairs! Choux pastry is often thought of as difficult to make and perfect, but in fact it's the easiest pastry you'll ever make! This beginner-friendly book contains all the choux pastry and eclair recipes you need to get started, along with tasty filling combinations and colorful cake decorating ideas. The cake designs look great but are really quick and easy to make, with step-by-step foolproof advice on piping choux pastry and making sugar flowers and other embellishments to decorate your bakes. Once you've discovered how easy it is to make eclairs, you can then take your skills to the next level and create all sorts of other choux pastry shapes, including buns, hearts, towers and rings so you can make delicious desserts such as profiteroles, allumettes, choux cheesecake and more. So whether you fancy rustling up a batch of classic chocolate eclairs or an impressive Croquembouche you'll find all the tips tricks and recipes you'll need right here.

Genres: Cookbooks

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Amanda Bright · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots to think about here … good pictures of decorating techniques.