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Chocolate Icing

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. two ounces grated chocolate
  2. three ounces icing sugar
  3. three tablespoonfuls of boiling water
  4. Coffee
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Melt three ounces icing sugar, and two ounces grated chocolate in three tablespoonfuls of boiling water.
  2. Warm the icing till it is perfectly liquid, but don’t let it boil.
  3. Hold each éclair in turn over the pan and trickle the mixture on it with a spoon.
  4. Don’t touch them till they are quite cold and dry.
  5. Coffee Icing 4 ounces sugar 2 tablespoonfuls coffee essence 2 tablespoonfuls boiling water Make as above.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Grater
  • Spatula