Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade croissants. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
These Flaky Buttery Homemade Croissants will make your morning breakfast so much more delicious! A complete recipe guide with pictures and video to teach you to make the most perfect croissants..to Make Homemade Croissants: A couple of weeks ago I tried my hand at making croissants! We're getting closer and closer to those yummy croissants!
Homemade Croissants is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Homemade Croissants is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade croissants using 7 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Croissants:
- Prepare 500 g strong white bread flour plus extra
- Take 10 g salt
- Make ready 80 g caster sugar
- Prepare 10 g instant yeast
- Take 300 ml cool water
- Take 300 g chilled unsalted butter
- Make ready 1 medium egg
This flaky buttery French pastry is known as 'Croissants de Boulanger'. It is a yeast-based dough laminated with layers of butter then shaped to create this distinct croissant shape. This simplified croissant recipe will have you baking croissants like a pro. Flaky, buttery, and deliciously authentic, yet so easy to make!
Instructions to make Homemade Croissants:
- Use the dough hook on your mixer. Put the flour into the mixer bowl and add the salt, sugar, yeast and water. Mix on a slow speed for 2 minutes then on a medium speed to 6 minutes.
- Take the dough out of the mixer and put onto a lightly floured surface shape it into a ball dust with flour put into a plastic bag and chill in the fridge for an hour.
- After an hour on a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to a rectangle roughly about 60 x 20 cm.
- Take your butter and flatten it into a rectangle by bashing it with a rolling pin. Make the rectangle about 40 x 19 cm.
- Put the butter on the dough so that it covers 2/3 of the dough. The shape of my worktop means i have the long side on top. Width-way it should come almost to the edges.
- Fold the dough by folding one third of the dough to the centre and then for the other third over the top. Pinch the edges slightly to seal in the butter. Put it back in the plastic bag or cover in some way and chill in the fridge for an hour.
- Take the dough out of the bag and put it on a lightly floured surface. Roll into a rectangle again about 60 x 20 cm and do the fold again. Cover it again and back in the fridge for an hour. Do that step two more times.
- After the final fold put the dough back in the fridge overnight or at least 8 hours.
- Line 2 or 3 baking trays with baking paper.
- Take the dough out of the fridge. Put it on a lightly floured surface and roll another rectangle. This time make it about 40 x 30 cm. Trim the edges with a really sharp knife or a pizza cutter.
- Then cut the rectangle lengthways into two strips. I then cut each strip into three squares. Then cut each square into two triangles. You can use your hands to shape the triangles.
- At the wide base of the triangle make a tiny cut and then, starting at the wide end, roll up into a croissant. If you want the crescent shape, curl the ends in.
- Put the croissants on the trays. They need some space so 4-6 per tray. Then the final proove - cover and leave in a cool room for a couple of hours. I skipped this today so today’s croissants are mini 😁
- Preheat your oven to 200°C. Lightly whisk the egg with a pinch of salt to make an egg wash.
- Use this to brush the tops and sides of the croissants. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown. Cool slightly but be sure to enjoy warm 😋
Buttery homemade croissants aren't as hard as you may thing. Yes, it takes a little bit of elbow grease, but nothing you can't do. And the result is so worth it! Croissants are made with a yeasted, laminated dough, which is similar to puff pastry. The laminated dough begins with a butter block that's wrapped in a thin sheet of pastry.
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