Gluten-Free Eclairs Recipe
Do you love the classic chocolate eclair but are searching for a gluten-free option? This recipe is delicious!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup milk
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup of gluten-free flour mix
- 1/2 teaspoon guar gum
- 4 large eggs at room temperature
- 1 batch of bavarian cream (recipe below)
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1/4 cups cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400º
- line a large baking sheet with unbleached parchment paper and set aside
- Heat milk, butter, and salt in a small or medium-sized sauce pan
- Heat until butter melts and milk begins to simmer
- Remove pan from heat, and add flour, stirring vigorously
- Return pan to heat and cook, continuing to stir vigorously until mixture begins to pull together into a ball
- Remove from heat, and let cool for five minutes until it’s not too hot to touch
- Transfer the cooled dough into a stand mixer (if you have one)
- Start mixer and add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition
- Transfer dough into a pastry bag, or zip-top bag, and cut a 3/4 inch opening in the end or corner
- pipe 2-3 inch “logs” onto parchment-lined pan, smoothing the tops if necessary
- Place in center of the oven, and bake for 10-12 minutes until pastries begin to turn golden-brown
- Turn oven off
- Remove from oven, and slit each pastry with a sharp knife
- Return to oven, and allow pastries to dry out for 30 minutes or so
- Take back out of the oven, and fill with bavarian cream
- Melt chocolate chips, and stir in cream
- Spread evenly over tops of eclairs and let cool
- Serve and enjoy!