Chocolate Eclair Cup-Cakes

Hi there everyone! This recipe comes from Christy at The Girl Who Ate Everything. You can find the direct link to her blog here. Christy makes it as a cake but today we are going to make individual dessert cups. The shell for this is not cakey, but the same dough you would make eclairs from: light fluffy and buttery. My mouth is watering already. Lets cook!

Ingredients:
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
4 large eggs

Filling:

2 small boxes of instant french vanilla pudding
3 1/2 cups cold milk

Topping:
cool whip
chocolate syrup

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease thoroughly one or two cupcake pans and set aside. (I was able to make about 18cupcakes) In a medium-sized pot bring to a boil both the butter and water. Remove from heat and add flour. Then stir in one egg at a time completely mixing in each egg before adding the next.

Place about 3 tbs of the dough in each cupcake form. Try to spread the dough onto the edges to make it form a cup shape. Do not use cupcake liners, it does not yield very good results. Bake for 15 minutes, or until puffy and just golden. Remove immediately from pan and let cool completely on a cooling rack.

Mix up the two packets of pudding and milk and beat for 2 minutes. Let it firm up in the fridge.
Once the pudding is firm and eclair cups are cool place about 2 tbs pudding in each cup. Add a dollop of whipped cream and drizzle with chocolate syrup. Prepare only as many as you need and store the rest of the eclair cups in a plastic bag and pudding in the refrigerator.

Aren't they just delicious! I could only have one at a time because they are so rich. I hope you like these and share them with everyone you know.

Enjoy!

Tags: eclair, cupcakes, chocolate eclairs, vanilla pudding.