Éclairs are most commonly served as a dessert and it could be bought at any bakery or patisseries.
It is made with choux pastry dough filled with a cream and topped with icing, preferably chocolate. The dough is piped into an oblong shape with a pastry bag and baked until it is crisp and hollow inside. When cooled it is filled with, custard or whipped cream and the top iced with chocolate butter cream or fondant icing.
The word éclair comes directly from a French word meaning "lightning". Probably because of the lightness of the cream puff and its soft filling, and or because of its oblong shape. You can easily hold it in one hand, and eaten in a flash.
Either way this dessert is sure to please anyone with or without a sweet tooth.
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