Pumpkin Spice Latte Éclairs
Ingredients
Cream Puff Batter
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 large eggs
Chef Gail Sokol’s Pumpkin Pastry Cream
- ½ recipe (or 2 cups) Chef Gail Sokol’s Pumpkin Pastry Cream
Coffee Glaze
- 2 cups confectioner’s sugar
- 1 tablespoon instant espresso dissolved in 1 tablespoon very hot water
- 2 tablespoons or more milk or cream to thin out glaze.
Instructions
Make the Cream Puff Batter
- Preheat oven to 425° Fahrenheit.
- In a medium saucepan, bring water and butter to a boil.
- Quickly add flour and stir with a wooden spoon. A ball of dough will form. Lower the heat and cook for about one minute while mixing constantly. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for several minutes.
- Place dough in the bowl of an electric mixer. Using the paddle attachment, add eggs, one at a time, mixing on low speed to incorporate each egg before adding the next. The dough should hold its shape and not be too loose.
- Fill a pastry bag fitted with a large plain pastry tip half full of dough.
- Onto 2 parchment lined sheet pans, pipe the dough in rows of 3-4 inch long lines leaving a one inch space between them. Place the éclairs into the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
- Without opening the oven door, reduce oven temperature to 350° Fahrenheit and continue baking another 15 minutes or until the éclairs are brown and puffed.
- Remove from the oven. Allow to cool.
Make the Glaze
- In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, dissolved espresso and enough milk or cream to create a glaze that is thick enough to coat tops of éclairs.
Assembly
- Using a small, sharp knife, cut each éclair in half crosswise.
- Remove the doughy center. Discard.
- Using a pastry bag fitted with a large plain tip, fill pastry bag with pumpkin pastry cream.
- Pipe pastry cream into bottom half of each éclair. Do not overfill.
- Gently dip the tops of each éclair into some coffee glaze, allowing the excess to drip off, and place them right side up onto pastry cream filled éclair bottoms.
- Place filled and glazed éclairs onto a wax paper lined sheet pan. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Notes
Makes approximately 24 éclairs