Happy Birthday Thread

[ThePumisher]

Birthday People

The North American Haribo manufacturing hub is located right at the Illinois/Wisconsin border

Nice one, but me does not only live near a manufacturing hub but the birthplace of Hans Riegel Bonn (HaRiBo => HARIBO) 

[nekoland]

Feliz cumple también @nekoland!

Muchas gracias, amigo Csar!! and happy belated birthady to everyone!

[Csar]

Happy belated verjaardag, @toxic

[toxic]

Thanks @Csar 

[ThePumisher]

Birthday People

[Csar]

Happy rođendan, @sandelic!

[ThePumisher]

Birthday People

[sandelic]

Thanks, Csar! 

[Csar]

A happy and joyful verjaardag-birthday, @Joslyn!

[ThePumisher]

Birthday People

[Csar]

Häppy Geburtstag, @Stefan!

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[Bosco]

Happy belated @Stefan!

[ThePumisher]

Geburtstag

[Stefan]

Thank  you everybody!  

[Wolkenkrabber]

Happy belated Birthday @Csar wherever you are.

[Bosco]

Apologizes for a Happy belated @Csar , hope you had a great day! 

In your honor, I celebrated by eating an éclair earlier today. 

[ThePumisher]

Geburtstag

[Csar]

Thank you guys!

In your honor, I celebrated by eating an éclair earlier today.

I'm curious, what do American versions look like? Something like this?


It's been a while since I made eclairs - or as we also call them, too: "love bones" (Liebesknochen) 

[Wolkenkrabber]

It's been a while since I made eclairs - or as we also call them, too: "love bones" (Liebesknochen) 

So you can walk up to someone in a German café and say "would you like to gobble my love bone?" and not get kicked out?

[Bosco]

Thank you guys!

I'm curious, what do American versions look like? Something like this?

very similar, though the pastry is typically not split, but rather filling the pastry via a small hole with custard while using a piping bag.

we have three types which I frequently come across, and all of them are generally made the way I describe above:

1. Bulk mini frozen éclair. It is fully prepared, you just thaw them and then eat them. I detest these, they absolutely have no life to it. I've come across them at a lot of parties. They suck.

2. Supermarket éclair. Full sized éclair, the pastry is pre-prepared and often shipped to stores frozen where the bakery department then fills with custard and tops with chocolate frosting/icing. This is what I ate the other day, they are good value and actually a delightful treat.

3. Fresh made éclairs from actual small store bakeries (sadly, fewer TRUE traditional bakeries by the day here in the US). Tender pastry and fresh custard, it just can't be beat. You pay the added cost, but you get a perfectly made pastry with love.

My family used to always host a Sunday night dinner (common old-school US tradition), and my Grandpa would always be over. Him being the eldest of the family, we would always serve his favorite desert...chocolate éclairs.

So yeah, I've had my fair share of éclairs.