Croissants (Plain, Chocolate, Cheese, and Almonds)
Croissants (Plain, Chocolate, Cheese, and Almonds)

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, croissants (plain, chocolate, cheese, and almonds). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Croissants (Plain, Chocolate, Cheese, and Almonds) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Croissants (Plain, Chocolate, Cheese, and Almonds) is something that I have loved my whole life.

If you want to fill them, you can leave them in the larger squares or put the chocolate in the triangle shape before rolling up. Hello Friends, Welcome back to our Channel ! These buttery and flaky almond croissants are made from scratch, including the almond paste inside each pastry.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook croissants (plain, chocolate, cheese, and almonds) using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Croissants (Plain, Chocolate, Cheese, and Almonds):
  1. Make ready Détrempe
  2. Get 3 1/2 cup (525 g) flour (unbleached)
  3. Prepare 1 cup (250 ml) water, room temp
  4. Take 1/2 cup (125 ml) 2% milk, room temp
  5. Make ready 5 tbsp (62 g) white sugar
  6. Take 1 pkg (8g, 2 1/4 tsp) dry instant yeast
  7. Take 2 tsp salt
  8. Take 4 tbsp (60 g) unsalted butter, room temp
  9. Take Beurrage
  10. Make ready 1 1/4 cup (285 g) unsalted butter at room temp
  11. Prepare 1 egg whisked with 1 tbsp of water for brushing
  12. Make ready Almond filling
  13. Take 2 tbsp ground almond
  14. Take 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
  15. Take 2 tsp soft butter
  16. Take 1/4 tsp almond extract

Start with day-old or fresh plain croissants. You can either purchase or make the basic croissants yourself, but keep in mind that the richer and higher quality the plain croissants, the Slice your plain croissants horizontally with a serrated knife. Don't cut them completely in half - you want the top of. Extra flaky and buttery homemade chocolate croissants (Pain au Chocolat) are incredible warm from the oven.

Steps to make Croissants (Plain, Chocolate, Cheese, and Almonds):
  1. If you have a mixer, stir flour, water, milk, sugar and yeast on low speed. Then add the salt and butter and increase the speed one level up.. (You can do this process by hand as well, which I did)
  2. Shape the dough into a rectangle, cover with a kitchen towel and a plastic wrap. Let it set out for 2 hours then chill for at least 6 hours to ideally 10 hours.
  3. Shape the butter into an 8 inch square. Chill the butter, and take it out 20 mins before starting the folding step. Place the butter in the middle of the dough and fold from each corner side like forming an envelope. Then roll out the dough to a rectangle shape, fold the dough into thirds. Return that dough to the tray cover it with kitchen towel and plastic wrap and chill it for 8 hours.
  4. Repeat the rolling and folding 2 more times for at least 6-8 hours each chilled time. You should normally see the butter bubbling out.
  5. Get the dough out and cut it by half, roll out the dough to 16 by 12 inch. Cut the edges then cut the dough to your preference of plain or chocolate. Add your fillings roll. For the chocolate you do not need to cut in a triangle shape. Just straight will work.
  6. Proof for another 90 mins. Then brush the surface with your egg wash and bake for 15 mins on 190c (375) heat. Enjoy it after
  7. Enjoy

Recreate this French bakery classic In case you're just joining us, croissants are the April Baking Challenge recipe. I published a complete guide to tackling croissants and challenged you to. Plus "chocolate croissants" is kind of a misnomer, since croissant means crescent and these chocolate-filled pastries are more often Unlike puff pastry dough, croissant dough is made with yeast. To properly activate yeast, the liquid—in this case, milk—that the yeast is bloomed in must be. If a chocolate croissant is better than a plain one, and an almond croissant is better than a chocolate croissant (in my humble opinon), then a chocolate-almond croissant should be heaven in a mouthful.

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