Once again it is Daring Baker time!!!!! Browsing and clicking through the blogosphere today take a few minutes to see what the over 900 Daring Bakers have been up to this month.I have been a bad Daring Baker these last few months with working mega hours at the Easter Seal camp. I am surprised that I was not "given the boot" considering how absent I have been. The Daring Bakers is the brainchild of our beautiful and talented co-founders Lis at La Mia Cucina and Ivonne of Cream Puffs in Venice . We are given a challenge each month, choose a day to bake our little hearts out and then we all post our top secret recipe on the same day. Today is that day!!!!! Today you are inundated with Chocolate Eclairs of all shapes, flavours and varieties from all over the world!! It is amazing to see how each Daring Baker adds their own personal touch to the challenge with flavourings and decoration. Each one is unique and different. Way to go ladies and gents!!! Really cool!!! To see what the Daring Bakers accomplished this month as well as for the recipe check out the blogroll.Your hosts this month were Tony Tahhan and MeetaK. They chose a recipe from Pierre Hermé from a cookbook written by Dorie Greenspan: Chocolate Desserts By Pierre Hermé. Excellent choice ladies and gentlemen!!!
The eclairs were a challenge for me. I haven't made choux pastry since my very early days. In true "Val" fashion I baked the challenge this morning so there was no room for error or starting over. The only thing I was disappointed in was the size. I was expecting plate size eclairs filled with cream and drizzled with chocolate but instead got "mini me". This is certainly a case where size does not matter because they were just the right size of chocolaty goodness.
