Recipe - Minature Chocolate Eclairs

FILLING
1 pack Chocolate pudding mix, Cook
& Serve
2 cup Milk

PASTRY
One half cup Butter, 1 stick
1 cup Water
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Allpurpose flour
4 md Eggs

FROSTING
2 tablespoon Butter
2 ounce Semisweet chocolate, 2
squares
1 cup Confectioner's sugar
2 tablespoon Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Filling**** cook pudding according to pkg. Cool 1 hr.

Pastry**** In sauce pan heat butter, water, and salt over med heat until
mixture boils and butter melts. Reduce heat to low. Vigorously stir in
flour all at once until mixture forms a ball. Transfer pastry to a bowl:
Stir in eggs; one at a time, beating well after each. Preheat oven to 400*.
Grease a baking sheet. Drop dough into 12 mounds, about 5 inches apart,
Spread each mound into 4x1/2inch rectangle, piling dough on top and
slightly rounding sides. Bake until golden, 35 minutes. Remove from oven;
make 1inch slit on side of each eclair. Reduce oven to 375* and bake for
10 minutes more. Transfer to wire rack to cool.

Frosting***** heat butter and chocolate over low heat, stiring until
melted. Remove from heat, stir in sugar, milk, and vanilla until smooth.

Slice eclairs in half. Spoon about 1 tablespoon of filling onto each bottom
half and replace tops. Spread tops with frosting.

Recipe by: Dianne Waller Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #657 by Barbara
Dianne Waller dwaller@frontier.gulf.net on Jul 06, 1997