Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 2 squares
- 1 stick
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 ounces semisweet chocolate
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 package chocolate pudding mix cook
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 4x1/2-inch rectangle, piling dough on top and slightly rounding sides. Bake until golden, 35 minutes. Remove from oven; make 1-inch 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.