Raspberry eclair
Raspberry eclair
Fill crisp choux pastry with a fresh and tangy raspberry curd, crown with a glossy raspberry glaze and complete with a golden crumble. The delicious berry flavour is the ideal sweet treat to share with someone special.
Raspberry curd ingredients
- Sucranna caster sugar : 50g
- bronze leaf gelatine : 1 sheet
- lemon : 1/2
- frozen raspberries, defrosted : 300g
- egg whites : 3 large
- water : 10ml
- unsalted butter, soft : 40g
Raspberry curd method
- Pour gelatine in a small container and add water; set aside.
- Puree raspberries in a blender. Strain to remove seeds.
- Pour raspberry puree in a saucepan. Add egg whites, lemon juice and sugar.
- Whisk raspberry mixture for 1 minute. Place over heat and whisk vigorously to 82°C/ 180°F or until mixture develops bubbles on the side of the pan.
- Remove from heat and add gelatine mixture. Whisk to combine.
- Allow to cool to 48°C/ 120°F. Add butter and stir using a spatula.
- Pour in a dish and place in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
Raspberry glaze ingredients
- Belcolade Cacao Trace white chocolate : 250g
- cream : 100ml
- natural raspberry extract : 10ml
- unsalted butter : 10g
- Rainbow Dust red food colouring : 3 drops
- Golden chocolate crumble :
Raspberry glaze method
- Combine cream and raspberry extract and bring to a boil.
- Melt white chocolate, remove from the heat.
- Add cream mixture and butter.
- Add food colouring, blend until smooth.
Assembly
- Insert 2 – 3 holes in the bottom of each éclair.
- Fill the large éclairs with the raspberry curd.
- Dip the top side of each éclair in the glaze and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
- Decorate with some golden chocolate crumble or raspberry meringue crumble.

