Chocolate éclairs with French vanilla cream, Chartreuse peach and homemade vanilla ice cream

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Soak the gelatine for the jelly. Boil up the liqueur, remove from the stove. Stir in 100 ml water and 25 g sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Squeeze the gelatine and dissolve in the liqueur. Line a flat, freezer-proof dish with baking paper. Pour in the liquid and allow to cool. Then place in the freezer for about 30 minutes

2. 2

   For the cream, cut the vanilla pod lengthwise. Boil up with 100 ml milk and 1 pinch of salt. Separate 2 eggs. Beat the egg yolks with 50 g sugar in a metal bowl. Mix with flour and 25 ml cold milk, stir in hot milk. Remove vanilla pod, bring milk to the boil, boil while stirring for about 2 minutes. Let it cool down and put it in a cool place. Before spreading the Èclaires whip the cream until stiff, fold into the vanilla cream

3. 3

   For the eclairs, put 75 g butter in small pieces, 125 ml milk, 1/2 teaspoon sugar and 1 pinch of salt in a casserole dish. Heat until the butter has melted. Sieve 75 g flour into the saucepan, stir over a low heat to form a smooth dough, allow to burn for 1-2 minutes. Remove from the heat, let cool down briefly. Stir in 3 eggs one after the other. Pour into a piping bag with a medium-sized star-shaped spout, squirt about 8 éclaires (about 10 cm long; about 2.5 cm wide) onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ circulating air: 175 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 10 minutes. Turn down the temperature (electric oven: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) and bake for another 5 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool. Cut the eclairs horizontally. Spray vanilla cream onto the lower half. Place the upper half on top and press down.

4. 4

   Melt chocolate for the glaze. Stir with 50 g cream, 1 teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon icing sugar until smooth. Spread the upper eclaire halves with it, let it dry. Dice the jelly. Arrange the eclairs with jelly, peach slices and ice cream. Decorate with berries. Dust with icing sugar if necessary.