Eclair: calorie, cooking recipes

Many fans of sweets really like the cake with the unusual name "eclair". The calorie content of this product is quite high, which makes some people think about whether it is worth eating this product so often. Is it true or, perhaps, hypochondriacs that are mistaken in their fears?

Energy value of the product

Eclair is dessert, which is a cake made from a custard dough, inside of which, as a rule, is a cream.

Like any other food product, it supplies the human body with a certain amount of energy. It, in turn, is measured in calories and consumed in the process of vital activity, creating the necessary conditions for normal development.

What about this issue can I say about the eclair? Caloric content of such a dessert, as well as any other product, depends on its composition and method of preparation. That is, each component carries with it a certain amount of energy, which is gradually released as a result of digestion. To determine a specific value, you need to know exactly what the eclair consists of. The caloric content of the product itself will be the arithmetic sum of the corresponding values belonging to a particular ingredient. For comparison, this value is usually indicated in the number of calories per 100 grams of the finished product.

Number of calories

Food, entering the body, is digested, releasing a certain amount of energy. As a rule, it is spent on providing:

• Physical activity;
• Heat production;
• Processes related to metabolism, mental work, cell renewal.

Excess energy does not disappear without a trace. She remains in the person and accumulates in the form of subcutaneous fat. Therefore, doctors always advise to monitor not only the quantity of products consumed, but also to control the energy that comes with them into the body. For calculations, it is necessary to first decompose the finished product into its constituent components according to the recipe, and then, taking into account the nutritional value (carbohydrate, fat and protein content) of each of them, determine the total number of calories. Similarly, you can analyze the eclair. The calorie content of this dessert will depend on the cream that is used to fill it. He can be:

• oil;
• Custard;
• Curd;
• Albuminous;
• chocolate;
• With condensed milk.

For example, an eclair with a protein cream contains about 300 kilocalories. At the same time, the energy value of the cream itself is 212 kilocalories. It is clear that the blank from the dough in this case does not play a major role.

Home eclairs with creamy cream

Many housewives believe that it is difficult to prepare a French dessert, and therefore they prefer to buy it in a store. To dispel such doubts, it is necessary to understand how to prepare eclairs at home, and try to do it yourself. The following products will be required for operation:

For the test:

4 eggs, a glass of flour, 100 grams of butter, 2-3 grams of salt and 200 milliliters of water.

For cream:

1 egg, ½ cup of milk, a packet of butter (200 grams), 100 grams of sugar, and also a little liquor or cognac.

For glaze:

Protein of one egg, a third of a glass of powdered sugar and literally a few drops of lemon juice.

Technology of preparation:

1. In the pan put the oil, pour the salt and, pour it all with water, bring to a boil. After that, the fire can be made smaller.
2. With constant stirring, add flour. Over time, the mass should become shiny and homogeneous. After that, the pan can be removed from the plate and cool its contents to 70 degrees.
3. Without stopping mixing, enter alternately eggs.
4. Put the dough into a pastry bag.
5. The pan should be covered with parchment, lightly oiled with oil, and then it should be deposited on it billets in the form of sticks no longer than 12 centimeters. The distance between neighboring products should be at least five centimeters, as during the preparation they will increase in size.
6. Bake for 10 minutes in the oven at 220 degrees.
7. Reduce the flame to 160 degrees and hold the workpiece for another 25 minutes, and then remove and cool.
8. For cream on milk and sugar, syrup.
9. Separately, in the mixer, beat the butter, and then add the egg to it.

10. Gradually pour in syrup and cognac (or liquor).

11. To prevent delamination of the cream, it should be slightly heated, and then again beat.

12. For each blanks of the eclair, cut a small piece from the top and fill the empty space with a cream.

13. To prepare the glaze, first the protein in the bowl must be beaten with a mixer. Then slowly introduce powder and add lemon juice for flavor.

14. With the resulting mass, cover the top of the finished cake.

This is the simplest version of how to cook eclairs at home. Repeat such actions will be able to even a young novice mistress.

Cakes with protein cream

For most children and many adults, a favorite treat is a custard cake with protein cream. Delicate and airy, they just melt in the mouth. In fact, this is the real eclairs with protein cream. Many mothers do not even suspect that they can easily be done in a home kitchen.

The first step is to ensure that the desktop has all the necessary components:

For the test:

For 250 milliliters of milk, 150 grams of flour, 5 grams of salt, 4 eggs, 25 grams of sugar and 100 grams of butter.

For cream:

For 200 grams of sugar half a cup of water, three eggs, a little salt, vanillin and lemon juice.

Cooking eclairs with protein cream is easy:

1. First you need to do the test. To do this, chopped butter in a saucepan combine with salt, sugar and milk. Heat gradually until the components are completely dissolved.
2. After boiling the mixture, slowly add the flour. Stir, so that the mass does not get lost in a ball.
3. After cooling the resulting mixture to room temperature, introduce an egg. Beat until smooth.
4. Dough put on a baking sheet covered with parchment. To do this, you can use a special confectionery bag (or syringe), or take an ordinary plastic bag, having made a hole in it.
5. Bake for 30 minutes at 200 degrees, and then for another 15 minutes at 150 degrees. After this workpiece can be left to cool right in the oven, opening the door slightly.
6. Egg whites for 5 minutes put in the freezer. This is necessary for better whipping.
7. Sugar is heated with water until the syrup is formed.
8. Whip the whites with a little salt. After that, a thin trickle of syrup.
9. Add the remaining components.

10. Fill the cooled cake with cream.

After that, you can safely go to make tea and prepare to have fun.

Eclairs with curd cream

Using her imagination, the landlady can choose any stuffing for preforms from the custard batter. Take, for example, cottage cheese eclairs. They are also easy to prepare at home. And the difference between similar products will be only in the composition of the cream. In this case, the following set of components is required for work:

200 grams of curd 30 grams of cocoa powder, ¾ cup sugar (or powder), a bag of vanillin, 100 grams of sour cream and a few fresh berries (or jam).

Preparation of this cream takes several minutes:

1. First cottage cheese must be combined with sour cream. You can mix it with a whisk or use a mixer.
2. Add sugar (powder), cocoa and vanillin. Beat until the mixture is as homogeneous as possible.
3. Add berries. They will give a pleasant characteristic taste to the semi-finished product.
4. Ready to send to the refrigerator.

After the blanks of eclairs cool, the cooled cream can be used to fill them.

With the aroma of chocolate

In the same way, chocolate eclairs are prepared. And you can do this in two ways:

1. Use chocolate icing.
2. Prepare a chocolate cream for the filling.

In each of these cases, the eclair will have a favorite chocolate taste. For the preparation of such semi-finished products you can use:

For cream:

2 glasses of milk 70 grams of butter, a glass of sugar, 70 grams of flour, 45 grams of cocoa powder, 2 eggs, a bag of vanilla sugar and a glass of peeled walnuts.

For glaze:

Stogram of black chocolate.

The way of preparation is extremely simple and understandable:

1. Beat eggs with sugar and milk for cream in a saucepan.
2. Add the flour, and then put on a plate and heat, stirring constantly. After boiling, the flame needs to be made smaller.
3. Once the mass thickens, you need to add vanilla sugar and immediately remove the pan from the plate.
4. Introduce the cocoa and whip until smooth. The mass should become smooth.
5. Introduce softened oil. After a short whipping, the mixture should be left alone to freeze.
6. To make the glaze, you just need to heat the chocolate in a saucepan. Then you just have to dump the finished cake into it.

This option is the easiest and quite convenient.

Classic Edition

The whole world is very familiar with classical eclairs. This - cakes, prepared from a custard batter and filled with custard. To prepare this delicate sweet mass of pleasant white color, a minimum of products is needed:

150 grams of butter, half a cup of sugar, 15 grams of potato starch and 150 milliliters of plain water.

It is not difficult to make such a cream:

1. First, the starch must be diluted in water.
2. Then add the sugar and heat the container over a low heat. As a result, the mixture will look like a colorless paste.
3. After that, the mass must be cooled and put oil into it.
4. Beat the contents of the container to the desired density.

After this, the cream can be used for its intended purpose. It is prepared very quickly and does not require any special effort. But the calorie content of such a product is much higher than that of other species (protein, chocolate, curd and others), and is 212 kilocalories. As is known, this indicator mainly depends on the content of oil, sugar and milk in the cream. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the fact that fat is the main carrier of calories. After making minimal calculations, you can make sure that the custard is really the most caloric in comparison with the rest.

Cream with boiled condensed milk

Some people prefer to do eclairs with condensed milk. This is the simplest version of the cream, which is also the most budgetary one. For its preparation you need only:

For 200 grams of butter 1 bank of boiled condensed milk.

The method of its preparation is also extremely simple:

1. In a bowl, put the butter, after cutting it into pieces.
2. Add boiled condensed milk and whisk the products with a mixer until the mass becomes homogeneous.

After this, the prepared cream will need to fill the confectionery syringe. It only remains to make with a nozzle a small hole in the workpiece of the eclair, through which to fill it with a sweet mixture.

The energy value of this product is 424 kilocalories. This must be remembered for those who are inclined to fullness and are afraid to recover. After all, the subcutaneous fat layer is easy to create, but it is very difficult to get rid of it. Here you may need a diet, additional physical activity or even medical intervention.