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Sunday, June 14, 2009 { 10:36 PM }

well i know i'm supposed to study but the thoughts of eclairs were just way tooooo tempting =p hahaha

Choux pastry:
200ml water
120g butter
1 cup (250ml) flour
5 eggs
pinch of salt

Cream:
500 ml cream
250g sugar

Chocolate topping:
150g cooking chocolate
60g butter

Step 1: Boil water and butter
Place small pan on medium heat. Add water, butter, salt and bring to boil. Set oven to 190 degree Celsius.

Step 2: Make choux dough
Once boiling, add flour to pan of water and stir well with wooden spoon till it forms a smooth dough. Set aside to cool. (This step is important as the flour needs to be cooked for the pastry to rise later.)

Step 3: Make pastry cream
Add cream and sugar into large bowl. Whisk continuously until cream starts to form stiff peaks. (It's easier to use a electric whisk.) Cover bowl with cling wrap and refrigerate till needed.

Step 4: Add eggs to pastry
Ensure pastry has cooled down before adding in eggs one by one and thoroughly combine using wooden spoon between each eggs until dough has formed a smooth, elastic appearance. (Pastry has to be cooled or there'll be an eggy taste.)

Step 5: Transfer dough into piping bag
Put pastry dough into piping bag, pipe onto baking tray covered with greaseproof paper. Pipe into roughly 3cm wide and 15cm long, log shaped cylinders.

Step 6: Bake
Place baking tray into centre of preheated oven and bake for approximately 20 minutes. Do not open oven.

Step 7: Remove from oven
Once baked, remove from oven and set aside to cool.

Step 8: Making chocolate sauce
Place chocolate and butter in a bowl and melt over a pan of water on low heat. Allow to melt slowly.

Step 9: Fill with cream
When cooled, slice length of eclairs with sharp knife and make a slight opening. Fill eclairs with cream using spoon or piping bag.

Step 10: Decorate with chocolate
With a spoon, dribble melted chocolate lengthways over each eclair and leave to cool.

A very happy althea eating instead of helping lol.

Other random photos thru the week

Being bullied as usual lol

Bullying the poor dog lol

seafood basket!! =)

and comments please on my new hair colour =p