Eclair

An eclair is a soft oblong pastry with a soft filling and a chocolate - or frosting . If filling is usually custard used and sometimes cream or crema Catalana . The cream can be first still flavored with coffee , chestnuts , fruit or rum .

The eclair made ​​of choux pastry .

The eclair probably stems from the France of the 18th century and is possibly invented by the cook Marie-Antoine Carême .

The word éclair means thunderbolt in French .