A custard cake - a treat known since childhood

A custard cake or an eclair is a delicate dough and a sweet filling. His taste is familiar to everyone from childhood. But even in the preparation of this delicacy there are subtleties. Badly brewed dough will not be so gentle and cakes will not work. So let's talk about how to properly prepare this dessert.

The name "eclair" came to us from the French language. To prepare the custard pastries with cream, you need to make a workpiece. How dough the air will get, so delicious and will be eclairs. The number of ingredients for cooking is minimal.

First, take a glass of water and pour it into a saucepan. We are waiting for the water to boil. Then add 100 grams of butter. It can be pre-extracted from the refrigerator to make it soft. When the oil dissolves, gradually add one glass of flour. The flour must be sieved through a sieve. Then it will be saturated with oxygen and the dough will turn out more airy. In the process of adding flour, you need to constantly interfere with the dough. It must be homogeneous. A little it boil. When the dough does not stick to the walls of the pan and turns into one big lump, then it's ready. Turn off the heat and leave the dough to cool.

Then we drive five eggs into it. We do it gradually, mixing it well. Usually, the brewed cake has a classic elongated shape. But if you wish, you can make it in the form of a ring or a ball. Take the confectionery bag or syringe. We fill it with a test and squeeze cakes of an arbitrary shape onto a baking sheet. On the baking sheet you need to lay the parchment and oil it. Please note that the brewed cake grows in size during baking. Therefore, lay out the dough pieces at a certain distance from each other. We pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees. When the custard pies will turn rosy and increase in volume, you need to reduce the temperature to 170-180 degrees. Then we bring them to full readiness.

We take them out of the oven and let them cool. Now you need to make a cream. A custard cake perfectly matches almost any cream. You can take a protein, oil or custard.

To prepare the custard, you need to take a glass of milk and mix it with two eggs and three tablespoons of flour. For convenience, first you need to dissolve the flour in a small amount of milk. But even if in this combination there will be lumps. Do not worry, they will disappear in the process of further preparation. Now take another glass of milk and mix it with a glass of sugar. We bring this mixture to a boil over low heat. Next, mix these ingredients with the first prepared mixture. At the same time, stir constantly, so as not to burn flour, and the cream was uniform. When the contents of the pan start boiling, turn off the fire, but do not stop interfering for 2-3 minutes. After the cream has cooled, add to it 100-150 grams of butter and beat well with a mixer. The cream is ready.

And here's how to make another cream. We take 600 milliliters of cream, the fat content of which should be at least 30 percent. Add to them about 9 tablespoons of powdered sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla sugar. Then mix all ingredients with a mixer. Cream for cakes is ready.

We make an incision on each cake and fill them with cream. You can use a pastry syringe and stuff it with it. Alternatively, you can cut off the top of the cake and put the stuffing inside. On top of the brewed cake can be covered with chocolate icing.

The brewed cake after baking should turn out to be airy and empty inside. And you can do it only by observing all the listed requirements.

Children and adults will appreciate your culinary creation, and it will not lie long on the plate.