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203. Chocolate Eclairs

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happy birthday Meera      My niece, Meera loves baking. Whenever I go her place, we try and bake something together and in the process get to bond as well. She works with a lot of patience and joy. During school holidays she is busy baking goodies for her numerous cousins and large families. I am sure she gets loads of praises from them. Some years back Meera and I baked some eclairs for my dad, her grandfather and we were not too proud of the end result. The eclairs became a bit hard, but got consumed anyway within a few hours. Meera, this time when dada was here I tried out another recipe and they came out perfect. So do try them out again. Updated 23/01/2017     Eclairs are long French pastries that are made from choux (shoo) dough, baked and then filled with cream and topped with glace icing or melted chocolate. However, they can be filled with custard too and dipped in fondant icing. Frozen ones are served filled with ice cream and topped with melted chocol...