Pumpkin Spice Latte Eclairs

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