Chocolate éclairs
 

Everyone get along to Sobeys this week. Their chocolate éclairs are on offer for $1 each.

Even if they aren't on offer in your area they are worth the normal price.

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If only there were some around here.

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http://www.icecubejunkie.com/wp-cont.../05/eclair.JPG

They're hand size.

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Cant stand chocolate eclairs..yuk!!

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Ummm Yummy i is lovin em :thumbup:

Hey also lookout at Food Basics, they doin coffee, Nescafe big jars, for $2.99, limited to 6 per customer.

Coffee n Cake. Yummy :D

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oooohhh that looks lovely!

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They look nice, but don't be fooled. They sweeten the cream :frown:
Should be banned.

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Shame they don't use real dairy cream though!

Food Basics offers are fab this week, I filled the freezer. Those swiss burgers are to die for, and the fish is fantastic - cod, haddock etc... Also bought the coffee particularly as there are rumours it is going to jump in price.

I find Foodbasics and No Frills two of the best stores for basic items - I like the other ones like superstores, sobeys etc for fresh meat when it is on offer. Has anyone tried the new Feshco, seem to be taking over the price chopper stores in London.

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Freshco are large in the east of the GTA. We have 2 within 5 km. They are good, like a cheaper Sobeys. They all have there good and bad points. We like Freshco best though.

(saying that Mrs Magnum has just gone to Sobey's for a weekly top up, so WTF do i know...LOL :eek:)

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proper eclairs aren't filled with cream - it should be crème patissière, much closer to custard (eggs, vanilla, etc) than cream. I haven't tried this recipe, but drooled over it on the Grauniad site a few weeks ago... maybe I'll have a go in the summer if OH lets me at the oven for long enough.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...e-clair-recipe

Profiteroles, on the other hand, should be filled with whipped cream. Here's a tried and trusted recipe, although we don't normally bother with the orange zest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/ch...fiterole_86196

Mmmmmmm.

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Yeah, I made that version with crème patissière way back in high school - too many years to say and unless you get someone who can make it right - the proper french way then it just tastes stodgy - I prefer real thick dairy cream, and that is something hard to find in Canada. I miss Marks &
spencers Crisp Chewy nutty meringues with fresh cream and the meringue was soft and nutty like in the centre.

I hate all that white cream stuff they put on cakes here and claim it is cream - yuck.

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Reminds me of a poster on the MBTTUK forum returning to the UK from Canada a few years ago. Sounding off, trashing everything and moaning about food. Went into great detail that they had bought several coffee cakes and NONE of them tasted like coffee :rofl:

PS for those not already in Canada, a coffee cake is cake you enjoy with a cup of coffee. It's not coffee flavoured - usually lemon, peach, blueberry, 'Madeira', banana etc. Still makes me laugh how much it disgusted them ;)

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I'm a little puzzled about the "cream" comments.

As far as I'm concerned it was identical to fresh cream cakes in the UK (as are the Sobeys frozen ones, though smaller).
I had one spare from yesterday which MrsBristolUK and I shared today and the cream looked just like I'd have expected the day after.

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I'm with you mate - taste exactly the same as your normal tesco chocolate eclair in the uk

Some folk on here seem to have the deluded idea that everything in the uk was made from honey and sweet little puppy dogs :confused:

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Whereas other folk on here have never seen the point in buying fresh cream pastries at all - it's never as good or as fresh as the homemade equivalent, and choux pastry's a doddle (says the OH...)