Hi, alright guys I am back at jimmedy james house, hello, alright james for another gigantic
enormous food extravaganza, what are we making?
An �clair, an �clair!?
With choux pastry, made from actual shoes!
We have already been to the shop and got our ingredients, and this is how we got on.
James alright, how zoomed in are you on my face.
We just found something, remember them?
Tunnocks teacakes, does that bring back a memory?
It does a bit.
Oh that does bring back memories, even though it was there and not there yeah.
Say hello, makes baby noises.
Right James first time making choux pastry, I have never made it before and you are not
even making shoes, I�m not bad, nevermind, butter about 65g of butter in there, we are
going to mix it in with some water which is in a pan right here, we are done, 53, 64,
64 grams that will do.
Alright so we have got the butter and the water in the pan here, we are just going to
bring up to a simmer, once it is at a simmer we can cook up our flour, shoo!
Butter has melted we are now going to add the flour, translation there of what james
just said, was it quick, yeah, so what we are going to do is cook the flour by doing
this we turn it down to a medium heat, stir it through and it should start to cling to
the pan and make a ball dough type thing right jimmy.
Are you excited?
You chouxed (should) be.
It is happening!
Alright jimmy that is coming together loving it, it is looking good, I never used to know
you had to cook flour did you know that?
Did you not?
No, what like in a cake, oh yeah.
Now that mixture boom goes in there for 5 minutes to cool down, looks kind of like a
brain.
We are now at the stage to add some egg goodness, right Jimothy what are we doing, well we have
the egg and need to make a little well, a well?
A weeeeellllllll ? No a little well, yeah, just a weh then a weh, so the eggs go in the
well, yeah.
Oh in it goes, looking a bit like an eye.
We are going to whip it up like a big egg, it does look like a fried egg.
Look a bit like porridge at the moment guys, as you add the eggs it gets a bit smoother.
Smooth like velvet, you like it smooth, yeah!
Wahey, shoo!
Alright?
What you doing out there?
Dunno you told me to shoo!
Shoe?
I am not wearing any shoes!
Alrighty, should be looking nice and smooth now mate, oh loving it, smooth, nice now we
can smear it out on our tray to make a nice �clair shape right that is the plan.
So we are making a strip of the dough, right down the tray, we are going to push it in
and get as much down the tray as we can.
I have to get in and help James here but we will form a lovely strip of dough.
This is the als ice bucket challenge, this is just a water bath this is going to help
steam when we put it in our hot oven it is going to help it rise hopefully we will put
this on the lower shelf the oven is at 220 non fan if you have a fan oven about 200 should
do it.
Here we go our strip of choux, shoo doux right there we are going to double this up so we
will make an XL �clair, it is going in the oven, make sure you do not open your oven
during these steps ok, so in it goes there, in about ten minutes it should rise up then
crank the temperature down, it should be golden brown and delicious.
Right so whilst the �clair is in there, we could just stand here and do nothing, but
instead we are going to make a chocolate gash, that is right we are chopping our chocolate
finely, you could grate it but I just like using a knife, or if you are lazy you could
use the blocks that is what I tend to do, but with our ganache we will boil 300ml of
cream and pour into the grated chocolate, and let it cool to make a nice ganache, nice
chocolate ganache on its way.
Shiver me timbers guys look at the rise on that already the steamy water there is really
helping it is not even halfway through yet and looking good, risen like a wizard!
Right here is some cream which we are starting to simmer up, as soon as it does simmer we
have that lovely bucket I am going to call it a bucket is that ok?
Most people call them bowls but ok, mixing bucket of chocolate right there ready to go,
it is going to look sexy right.
Hot cream on chocolate is a very sexy thing my friends, look at it, watch your hand on
the steam because it hurts, oh yeah is that a cry for help!?
Right lets mix this through.
With it all mixed together a lovely chocolate lake ganache coming together you ok mate,
oh I am in heaven, in heaven, we just want to jump in it now, take our shoes (chouxs!)
off wahey!
Just let it cool down then thicken up because it will really help our �clair.
That is the other step done.
Little update then folks we have just taken the first one out of the oven, and it golden
brown and still a little hot by the sound of it, so what we are going to do is we have
put the other one in the oven it is down there rising too, we are going to slice that one
in half and join the two together, but we need to make some cream, is that ok with you
mate, make cream?
Or whisk it?
Oh yeah, good point.
So the last step we are whipping our cream, you actually need to physically whip it like
Indiana jones grab the hat last minute style right.
Right so we have some whipping cream right here, and we will whip it using the whisk,
we have some prongs on it that have been cleaned, yep cleaned and prepped do not want any choux
on it!
Yep no shoes!
Alright the cream is whipped in goes a substantial amount of icing sugar, to give it a sweetened
edge right jimmy, alrighty then, lets give it a fold I do not want to cover my kitchen
in it.
Folks are ingredients are ready it is time to build it, chouxly (surely) it will taste
nice, it chouxed do (should do).
Shoo shoo!
Montage of building the giant chocolate �clair!
Right then as usual james is carrying a knife for no reason, I want some I want to get into
this, giant chocolate �clair all done, if you have missed any of the other giant foods
check out the playlist it should appear on the screen throughout this video, and let
us know down below what you want to see next right.
250 thousand subscribers right mate, yeah, when we hit a million we will throw a giant
food party and you guys are invited to a mysterious location somewhere in the UK.
Amazing times so we are going to have some of this we will let you know what it tastes
like and also James wife is going to be sharing some of this for a party, so it is all going
to be consumed and great for the waistline that is it then guys thankyou very much see
you next time, bye!
So it is my birthday and my party, lovely barry and james have provided us with a lovely
bit of chocolate �clair, shall we dive in?
yeay!!
Tight skirt, big �clair, bad idea!
Hmmmm, thanks Barry & James!
Thanks, shall we carry on, yeah!