i have been wanting to make croissants for a while now. i knew, though, that i would need a day { at least } to make them, so i left that on the “bake while on a staycation” list. that was until yesterday happened. the chicago blizzard of 2011 came yesterday { and } for the first time in my career – we had a snow day! couldn’t really believe it, but i decided to make the most of the time locked in the house. tracey from tracey’s culinary adventures has an awesome step by step post on her blog that really helped me. i also have the baking cookbook by james peterson that the recipe is from so i split the dough in half { and } did half plain croissants { and } half chocolate croissants. the chocolate ones were a little underdone inside for my taste, but for a first time making laminated dough – i was really pleased. don’t get me wrong, though, these are tedious. { and } time-consuming {took me 8 hours { and } 18 minutes start to finish }. but worth every minute.
snow day!
it’s pretty great that these are so awesome { and } the dough just consists of these ingredients.
i don’t have a pastry mat large enough to measure these out, so i used post-it correction tape { and } made rulers.
ready to start the turning process.
layers { and } layers of dough { and } butter.
the last four photos show one turn. you will repeat that process until you have completed four turns, refrigerating for an hour after two turns.
recipe from james peterson’s baking cookbook, tracey’s culinary adventures.
Wow, your croissants look amazing! I’ve been meaning to make chocolate croissants since I posted that recipe last year and still haven’t gotten around to it. Thanks for the inspiration
These look so delicious and rich! I am scared to death to work with dough! These would be delicious for breakfast!
WHOA – these croissants look incredible and just like the ones I had in Paris. Absolutely love them.
These look amazing, Nikki.