Recipes
Croissants
Fairly difficult
Fairly cheap
The most famous coffee cake, delicious croissant with butter.
A croissant is a typical French and traditionally Austrian breakfast pastry made from sweet puff pastry that is rolled into a crescent shape before baking. Croissants belong to the category of viennoiserie.
Prep
30m
Cook
18m
Wait
1d
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| Category: | Breakfast Bakery Bread and Pastry |
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| Cuisine Type | French |
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Ingredients
For
4
Batch(es) Serving size 10 Croissants
--- Ingrediënten ---
| 500 g Flour |
| 60 g Sugar |
| 125 g Milk |
| 125 g Water |
| 10 g Salt |
| 5 g Yeast |
| 50 g Butter |
| 250 g Butter 80%+ fat block |
Croissants Directions
- Day 1 (30 min): Mix all ingredients for the dough, knead for 5 min,
- Add 50 g butter, knead until smooth (10 min),
- Form a rectangle and leave to rest overnight.
- Day 2 morning, Prepare the block of butter
- Wrap the butter in the dough,
- Fold it in half and leave to rest for 1 hour,
- Fold it once and leave to rest for 1 hour.
- Day 2 afternoon (or day 3): Roll out into a rectangle of approx. 24 x 50 cm
- Cut 10 triangles (10 cm base x 24 cm)
- Roll them up carefully
- Leave to rise until the volume has doubled (2-3 hours)
- Brush with egg beaten with a little water B
- Bake for 15-18 minutes at 180 °C
Notes
- The butter should be malleable (not hard, not melted).
- Allow sufficient time for rising – the dough should double in volume.
- If the dough is difficult to work with, allow it to rest in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.
Nutrition facts
vegetarian
Per Serving 10 Croissants
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