Pumpkin Pie Eclairs Recipes

SMALL-BATCH MINI PUMPKIN ECLAIRS

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, heat milk until milk begins to steam but is not boiling. Remove from heat and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together egg yolks, pumpkin puree, sugar, flour, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. SLOWLY drizzle in hot milk, whisking constantly so you don't scramble your eggs.
• Continue whisking and pouring until all of the liquid is incorporated. You can speed up the pouring as you go and the temperature of your eggs is brought up.
• Transfer mixture back to your saucepan and cook over medium heat, whisking constantly. Continue to cook until mixture thickens and begins to bubble, about 3 to 6 minutes. It's ready when it is the consistency of a thick pudding. Whisk vigorously until smooth, remove from heat, and stir in vanilla.
• Place your strainer over a medium bowl and strain pastry cream, using your whisk to push the mixture through.
• Place a piece of plastic wrap directly over the pastry cream to prevent a skin from forming and place in the refrigerator to chill completely, at least an hour.
• Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line your baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
• Have your flour measured out and ready to go. In a medium saucepan, combine water, butter, sugar, and salt. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. As soon as the butter is melted and the mixture reaches a boil, stir in the flour with a wooden spoon. Stir until flour is incorporated and the mixture pulls away from the sides and forms a thin film over the bottom of the pan.
• Transfer dough to a large bowl and allow to cool for about 4 minutes, until no longer hot to the touch. Add one egg and use your wooden spoon to work the egg into the dough until completely mixed. It will seem slow going at first, but it will come together. Repeat with the second egg.
• Transfer mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a 5/8-inch tip. Pipe 10 to 11 3-inch lines, at least 2 inches apart. Once finished, use a little water on your fingertip to pat down any tips that are sticking up from piping so you have smooth tops (otherwise the tips sticking up will burn).
• In a small bowl whisk together egg and water and brush gently over the pate a choux.
• Bake for 28 minutes. Do not open the oven. At 28 minutes, check the eclairs. They should be lightly browned. If not, cook for an additional 2 to 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool completely before filling.
• Use a chop stick or small, sharp knife to poke 2 small holes in the bottom of each eclair. Transfer your cooled pastry cream to a piping bag fitted with a 1/8-inch round tip (if the cream has firmed up too much in the fridge, you can whisk it for about 30 seconds until it is smooth and the right consistency for piping.
• Fill each of the eclairs with a generous amount of pastry cream.
• In a small saucepan, combine butter, milk, corn syrup, and vanilla. Whisk over medium heat until butter is melted. Add chocolate and stir until smooth. Remove from heat and add the sifted powdered sugar. Whisk until smooth.
• Transfer glaze to a small bowl wide enough for dipping and immediately dip filled eclairs. Allow glaze to set for 5 minutes before eating.

PUMPKIN SPICE ECLAIRS WITH CHOCOLATE BEER PASTRY CREAM AND GANACHE

Steps:

• 1. Make the pâte à choux by first preheating the oven to 425˚F and lining a baking sheet with a silpat or piece of parchment paper. Place the carrot juice, butter, salt, sugar and pumpkin spice into a medium saucepan. Cook on medium heat until the carrot juice is simmering and the butter has melted, stirring frequently. Once the butter has melted, sift the flour over the juice and stir over the heat, until the flour is incorporated and the dough has formed. Cook for an additional 2 minutes and then remove from the heat.

PUMPKIN PIE ÉCLAIR

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 320 degrees F. Line a sheet tray with parchment paper.
• Combine the water, milk, butter, sugar, and salt in a large pot and bring to a full boil. With a wooden spoon, quickly stir in all of the flour and cook on medium heat for 5 minutes. Transfer the mix to a standing mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Set to medium speed, and add half of the eggs. Mix for 3 minutes, then add remaining eggs. Using a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip, pipe 4-inch tubes of choux onto the prepared sheet tray. Bake for about 30 minutes. Once cool, store in the refrigerator until ready to use.
• Combine the milk and sugar and bring to a boil. Meanwhile, whisk the egg, yolks, and cornstarch until smooth. Once milk comes to boil, slowly temper into the egg mixture. Return to the pot, add the pumpkin purée, and cook over medium heat until very thick. Remove from the pot, cover directly with plastic wrap and let cool in refrigerator.
• Combine ¾ cup of the water and the gelatin powder and let hydrate. Combine the remaining 1¼ cup water with the sugar and glucose, and heat to 205 degrees F. Add the condensed milk, then stir in the gelatin. Remove from the heat and add the chocolate and some food coloring, and combine well with a hand blender or a whisk. Let cool to room temperature.
• Poke three small holes on the underside of the éclair. Transfer the pastry cream to a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip and fill each hole to maximum capacity. Return to refrigerator and let rest for one hour. Fifteen minutes prior to glazing, place the éclairs in freezer to help in the glazing process. Dip each éclair into glaze, holding it from the underside and place onto a parchment lined tray. Garnish with graham crackers and pomegranate.

PUMPKIN PIE ECLAIRS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
• In a medium saucepan bring the water, butter, salt, sugar and pumpkin pie spice to a rapid simmer. Remove from heat and immediately stir in the flour with a wooden spoon. Keep stirring rapidly until the mixture comes together for about 30 to 60 seconds. Return to the heat and cook, constantly stirring rapidly, for about 30 seconds. Transfer the mixture to a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, and stir on medium. Slowly add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl and mix once more. The batter should be thick, but fall slowly away from the paddle. Transfer to a large pastry bag fitted with a plain circle tip.
• Pipe out the éclairs onto the prepared baking pans, to about 2-inch thick logs. Make sure to leave about 2 inches of space apart. Brush the surface of each éclair with the egg wash and bake for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to 375 degrees F and continue to bake until puffed and golden brown, about 25 minutes more. Let the éclairs cool completely on the baking sheets before filling.
• To make the filling, beat together the cream cheese, pumpkin puree, sugar, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice until smooth and well blended. Gently fold in the whipped cream.
• Cut each cooled éclair in half, lengthwise, and fill with the pumpkin mixture; placing about 2 tablespoons of filling into each. Sandwich together and place on a baking sheet.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, salt and enough milk as needed to create a smooth glaze. Tint the glaze any color you'd like with a few drops of food coloring, if desired. Carefully dip the top of each éclair into the glaze, return to the baking sheet, and top with the crushed up pie crust pieces. Allow the glaze to set before serving.

PERFECT PUMPKIN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Whisk pumpkin, sweetened condensed milk, eggs, spices and salt in medium bowl until smooth. Pour into crust. Bake 15 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F and continue baking 35 to 40 minutes or until knife inserted 1 inch from crust comes out clean. Cool. Garnish as desired. Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.

CLASSIC CHOCOLATE ÉCLAIRS

Steps:

• Prepare the custard: Stir together the egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch and kosher salt in a medium saucepan until smooth. Whisk in the milk and 1/2 cup heavy cream. Add the vanilla bean and seeds and the butter and bring the mixture to a simmer over medium heat. Set a fine-mesh sieve over a large heatproof bowl.
• Cook the mixture over medium-low heat, stirring constantly and making sure to get the edges, until the mixture begins to thicken, 2 to 4 minutes. (It's helpful to have both a spatula and a whisk handy while making the custard. Switch between the two.) Let it come up to a very slow boil and cook for 1 minute more. Strain the custard through the sieve into the bowl. Press plastic wrap directly onto the surface of the custard and refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 1/2 hours.
• Prepare the puffs: Bring the butter, sugar, salt and 3/4 cup/175 milliliters water to a simmer over medium heat in a medium saucepan, stirring with a wooden spoon. As soon as it comes to a boil, add the flour, stirring constantly, until the dough forms a ball and pulls away from the sides of the pan, about 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat and let the mixture cool for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring the dough occasionally.
• Heat oven to 450 degrees. Add the eggs to the dough in the pan, one at a time, stirring vigorously between each addition with a wooden spoon. The dough will break apart and slide around in the pot before it comes back together. Transfer the dough to a piping bag fitted with a large round or star tip. (The author used Ateco #826.)
• Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Pipe the dough into 4 1/2-inch-by-3/4-inch lengths about 3 inches apart. With a damp fingertip, flatten any points. Bake until éclairs are deep golden brown and puffed, rotating the sheets halfway through, 22 to 25 minutes. They should be very light and crisp. Turn the oven off. Poke each éclair on either end with a toothpick to allow some steam to release. Return the puffs to the oven and prop the door open a crack with a wooden spoon. Allow the puffs to dry out in the oven, about 15 minutes. Transfer baking sheet to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Prepare the glaze: Bring the heavy cream and salt to a simmer over medium heat. Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate and corn syrup. Let the mixture stand for 1 minute and then whisk to make a smooth sauce.
• To finish the custard, whip the remaining 1/4 cup heavy cream to soft peaks. Whisk the cooled custard to loosen it, then fold in the whipped cream. Transfer the custard to a pastry bag fitted with a fluted tip. Slice the top third off each éclair and fill the bases of the éclairs with custard. Dip the tops of the éclairs in the glaze and set them on top of the custard-filled bases. Serve immediately.

ECLAIRS II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Grease a cookie sheet.
• In a medium saucepan, combine 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil, stirring until butter melts completely. Reduce heat to low, and add flour and salt. Stir vigorously until mixture leaves the sides of the pan and begins to form a stiff ball. Remove from heat. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well to incorporate completely after each addition. With a spoon or a pastry bag fitted with a No. 10, or larger, tip, spoon or pipe dough onto cookie sheet in 1 1/2 x 4 inch strips.
• Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, then reduce heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) and bake 20 minutes more, until hollow sounding when lightly tapped on the bottom. Cool completely on a wire rack.
• For the filling, combine pudding mix and milk in medium bowl according to package directions. In a separate bowl, beat the cream with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Beat in 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Fold whipped cream into pudding. Cut tops off of cooled pastry shells with a sharp knife. Fill shells with pudding mixture and replace tops.
• For the icing, melt the chocolate and 2 tablespoons butter in a medium saucepan over low heat. Stir in 1 cup confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in hot water, one tablespoon at a time, until icing is smooth and has reached desired consistency. Remove from heat, cool slightly, and drizzle over filled eclairs. Refrigerate until serving.

PUMPKIN PIE

Steps:

• Whisk all ingredients together in a bowl. Pour into crust. If there is extra filling, pour it into a baking pan for a crust-less pumpkin pie or custard.
• Bake the pie for 10 minutes at 450 degrees, then approximately 35 minutes at 350 degrees or until set.

PUMPKIN ÉCLAIR 'CAKE'

Steps:

• Beat pudding mix and milk in large bowl with whisk 2 min. Add pumpkin and spice; mix well. Let stand 5 min.
• Meanwhile, cover bottom of 13x9-inch pan with 9 crackers, breaking as necessary to form even layer.
• Add 2 cups COOL WHIP to pudding; whisk just until blended. Spread half the pudding mixture over crackers in pan; cover with half of the remaining crackers. Repeat layers of pudding and crackers. Refrigerate 3 hours.
• Microwave remaining COOL WHIP and chocolate in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min. or until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended when stirred; spread over dessert. Refrigerate 15 min.

OLD-FASHIONED PUMPKIN PIE RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Make the pie dough: In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon, and salt. Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut shortening into the flour until the shortening breaks down into pea-sized pieces.
• Add the ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time, and stir gentle until the dough starts to come together.
• Dump the dough onto a work surface lined with 2 large pieces of plastic wrap. Shape dough into a disc and wrap tightly with the plastic wrap. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 425˚F (220˚C)
• Make the filling: In a small bowl, mix together the sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt.
• In a large bowl, whisk the eggs. Add the pumpkin and sugar-spice mix and whisk to combine. Slowly whisk in the evaporated milk until incorporated.
• Once the dough has chilled, lightly flour a clean surface. Roll out the dough to a ¼-inch (6 mm)-thick round. Keep the surface and rolling pin floured as needed so the dough doesn't stick. Transfer the dough to a 9½-inch pie pan (24 cm). Tuck the edges under and crimp. Note: The key to flaky pie crust is to handle it as little and as gently as possible. Handle it only as much as is absolutely necessary to mix, shape, and roll out.
• Pour the filling into the pie shell.
• Bake the pie for 15 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 350˚F (180˚C) and bake for another 40 minutes, or until the center jiggles slightly.
• Cool the pie on a wire rack for 2 hours.
• Slice and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
• Enjoy!