An éclair is a truly mouth-watering French pastry with its sweet filling of vanilla cream. It’s just kind of annoying that you always have to go a bakery for an éclair because making them at home is no easy task. But here we’ll show you how you fill up an entire dish with them and everyone will be astonished at the end and will happily enjoy. And you won’t even have to turn on your oven.
Éclair Cake
Ingredients
- 2 packets vanilla pudding powder
- 4 cups milk
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- graham crackers
- 6 tbsp milk
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 4 tbsp melted butter
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Prepare the pudding according to the instructions on the package with 4 cups of milk. Cover with saran wrap and let cool in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Beat the heavy whipping cream and stir into the pudding. Cover the bowl with saran wrap to prevent a skin from forming.
- Lay out graham crackers into the bottom of a baking dish.
- Spread half of the vanilla cream over the graham crackers.
- Add another layer of graham crackers on top.
- Add the rest of the cream on top of the second layer of graham crackers.
- Add one final layer of graham crackers.
- In a bowl, mix milk, powdered sugar, butter, salt, and cocoa for the frosting. Spread it evenly over the top layer of graham crackers.
- Refrigerate the dessert overnight or for several hours before serving.
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This tastes so divine that everyone will be asking you for the recipe and it costs much less than the highly coveted éclairs at the bakery. The only disadvantage of the delicious dessert is that you’ll be tempted to wolf down the whole thing all by yourself. Well, at least your love handles will keep you afloat the next time you go swimming!