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If you're a home baker who has successfully conquered cupcakes, cookies, and brownies, perhaps you're ready to try a slightly more complicated recipe. Chocolate eclairs are a great way to dip your ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Chocolate éclairs, made with pate a choux dough, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Photo by Hillary Levin, [email protected] ...

Pate-a-choux is the stuff of magic in the kitchen. Pipe a soft, sticky dough onto a baking sheet and slide it into a hot oven. In mere minutes the dough puffs up — practically exploding to double, ...

And not only that, but the resulting baked good is as light and golden and inviting, an unobtrusive foundation for whatever filling you choose. It’s simply miraculous. The dough is called pâte à choux ...

Macarons have had their moment as the food trend du jour, but cream puffs and éclairs, from another family of French pastries, seem ready for a turn in the spotlight. These airy, not-as-sweet pastries ...

Note: Inspired by a recipe by Rose Levy Beranbaum in “The Pie and Pastry Bible.” For savory pâte à choux, omit the vanilla bean. 1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees, and place a rack in the center of the ...