Delicious delicious vanilla custard

[cimorene]

Wax made some eclairs for me last week, after I complained that you can't get them in Finland! It took two days (she made the pastry cream a day early), and a bunch of hours, but she agrees that it's not like it's hard, just a lot of fussing around. I am now not positive but I THINK I've maybe never had fresh eclairs before? I had fresh ones Friday, then leftover ones Saturday and Sunday now. The second-day ones where the crust has softened are definitely way more familiar. The fresh ones were incredibly delicious.

Our favorite icecream shake is pistachio and vanilla combined with coffee and amaretto (we were too depressed to make it this summer, because you have to get out a food processor and do a bunch of steps) and I've been trying for years to think how to combine these flavors into a cold-weather dessert. Maybe eclairs is the answer! Amaretto-coffee icing and pistachio-vanilla pastry cream? Or pistachio icing and coffee-amaretto pastry cream?

Speaking of Wax, she updated her journal waxjism for the first time in two years or something. Maybe because I told her I was not as qualified as she was to post about the eclairs.

Comments

[james]

I believe that "eclairs" is always the answer.

[princessofgeeks]

YUM

[torachan]

There's a chain of Japanese cream puff shops here called Beard Papa and they fill the cream puffs when you buy them, so the pastry is always perfect and not soggy. I find all other cream puffs and eclairs to be somewhat of a disappointment in comparison.

[cimorene]

That seems completely logical, but I suppose it's a savings to not need as many people trained to do that etc. Most bakeries probably do it in the morning.

[which_chick]

Home made eclairs are delightful! I'm so glad you had some and slightly envious as well.

[spark]

Sounds perfect for cannoli!

[cimorene]

We thought about that but we didn't want to make the outsides rn. Wax mixed meringue pieces and strawberries in, sort of like Eton mess.