Description
Get ready to go bananas for these new Banana Shaped Eclairs. These deliciously creamy treats are the perfect blend of sweet and tangy, guaranteed to make your taste buds dance. Grab your apron, run, run to the kitchen, and bake up a batch of pure bliss.
Ingredients
Units
Scale
Eclairs
- 1 cup water
- 125 g butter OR Stork Bake
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1 tablespoon castor sugar
- 3 X large eggs
- A drop of vanilla essence.
Royal icing:
- 1 egg white
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1/2 tsp water
- A drop or two yellow liquid food coloring
Filling
- 250 ml whipped cream
Instructions
Eclairs
- Allow water, butter & vanilla essence to boil in a saucepan.
- Remove from heat, add the cake flour and castor sugar, and mix well.
- Carry on mixing over very low heat until the paste forms a ball and the sides of the saucepan are clean.
- Place the ball in a mixing bowl and allow it to cool.
- Once cool beat in the eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition.
- Pipe or spoon the mixture onto a greased baking tray and bake in a preheated Thermofan oven at 200°C/ 392°F for 15 minutes.
- Lower oven temp to 180°C/356°F and bake further 13 min OR until golden brown.
- I used a big star nozzle and pipe in a banana curve.
- Serve with whipped cream and with royal icing as topping.
Royal icing
- Whip the egg white till its stiff peak.
- Fold in the sieved icing sugar.
- Add water and a little yellow liquid coloring.
- Mix well and pipe straight over eclairs.
Notes
Created, Prepared, tried, and tested by Feriel from The Recipe Hunter: Tried and Tested Recipes from Home Chefs; SA Tasty Recipes – Saffas Daily Recipes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2
- Calories: 93
- Sugar: 5.5 g
- Sodium: 44.7 mg
- Fat: 5.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 10 g
- Fiber: 0.1 g
- Protein: 1.6 g
- Cholesterol: 37.7 mg
