Monday, September 20, 2010

Croissants

Hope you had a sun-shining, pleasant-weather weekend in your neck of the woods. Here, the scrumptious weather continues with bright light, and a cool breeze keeping the edge off the heat. There were also plenty of croissants filled with pineapple and chocolate to enjoy. Did you say you had a better weekend????

Croissants

This is kind of my first attempt at taking step by step pictures. I cannot say I enjoyed this much, but hopefully it is helpful to understand the cutting and rolling of croissants.  There is spoon filling at the broad end of the triangle; roll-tucking in the center, while simultaneously keeping the tapered-end stretched.  This helps, give several layers as possible for the finished croissants.

Croissants

To make chocolate filled pastry, cut the dough in rectangles and roll
Croissants

Let it sit for about 10 minutes so that the dough rises a little, give an egg wash and sprinkle with sesame seeds if you like.  Do not leave pineapple pieces on the baking sheet while baking (like you see in the picture) because this might burn while in the oven.  I sprinkled some while photographing for effect, though, I doubt that was very successful.
Croissants

Aha! baked goodies, crisp on the outside with buttery layers inside.

Croissants

Enjoy for breakfast with milk, or every time you spot them on your counter top, grab one and pop'em in your mouth like I do.  No wonder the needle on my weighing scale keeps tipping to the wrong side.

Ingredients:

For the Dough:

All purpose flour bleached and enriched - 2 1/4 to begin.  )Keep plenty in store because you will need to work the dough while rolling)
Water - 3/4 cup
Eggs - 1 (beat and divide in two )
Yeast -  1 1/4 tspn
Salt - 1/2 tspn
Sugar - 2 1/2 Tspn
Butter - 1 1/2 stick (divide into six parts)

Filling:
1. I use cheese, jalapeno, chocolate and even pineapples.  You can use filling of your choice.
I have used chocolate chips, if you have small stick that will work better while rolling
For the pineapple filling I have used canned pineapple chopped fine and sprinkled with sugar

Method:
1. Mix yeast, 1/2 tspn sugar in 1/4 cup of luke warm water (110D F) and wait till the yeast froths
2. Take all the dry ingredients together in a bowl and make a well in the center
3. Add 1/2 the egg,( and retain the remaining for egg wash), water and yeast and using a spatula mix
4. Leave the dough in the refrigerator for 15 mintues
5. Dust your counter top with dough and drop the sticky dough in.
6. Knead the dough to make it supple and roll out into a rectangle
7. Spread one part of the butter and fold like a book. (Check this video for more help)
8. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 15 minutes
9. Continue rolling out the dough in rectangle, spreading butter and folding like a book until you exhaust the butter.  This makes sure you have incorporated the butter evenly and have flaky layers
10. You may refrigerate the dough overnight and bake them the next day or after resting 15 minutes
11.  Roll, cut, shape croissants and give an egg wash as mentioned earlier and bake at 400 D F for 10 - 15 minutes

Contributor: Sunitha

46 comments:

  1. wow wow wow!!!!!! great pictorial and awesome croissants.

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  2. Wow! That's brilliant to make your own croissants, looks really flaky.

    US Masala

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  3. wow croissants looks simply awesome ...love the filling too ..yummy

    Satya
    http://www.superyummyrecipes.com

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  4. I love chocolate but i think this time i would love the jalepeno and the cheese one.
    Looks really beautiful and so pro.

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  5. Superb as usual, illustrative clicks are too good. Thanks for sharing a wonderful recipe which encourages me to bake some soon :):)

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  6. Wowieee..that looks awesome..the clicks and the step by step (yeah i don enjoy that much either) and the final outcome. I am just not motivated enough to actually make them from scratch..bakery ones it is till then ;)

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  7. These croissants looks so cute,so yummy...loved the way you have explained each step...

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  8. cute..brilliant..ohhhhhhhhh...these are so tempting and teasing....nice snaps of the procedures..

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  9. Fascinated...is all I have to say!!!!

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  10. Thanks for sharing step by step method of croissants.Looks mouthwatering.

    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

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  11. You made a wonderful sequence of croissant making....loved each and every snap.....yea the recipe too....

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  12. Sunitha,
    Croissant looks beautiful, i need to make them.

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  13. slurrrrrrrrrrp perfect croissants with step by step demo. thanks for sharing.

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  14. very very beautiful! I think the step by step pics are really helpful

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  15. Looks delicious ... well demonstrated. Clicks are awesome.

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  16. Awesome croissants! I loved the last cick.

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  17. You make your own croissants...??Wow! Thumbs up! They look super cute!!

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  18. That looks incredibly beautiful, love the way u presented it..

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  19. Wow awesome looking croissants..looks so cute,me too getting motivated to give this a try:)

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  20. Made from scratch -- how nice! I just grab the boxed ones..
    The ones in the picture are looking fabulous.

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  21. Brilliant Sunitha...Great picture and recipe...

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  22. I love warm croissants. Great presentations. It is giving me so much confidence to follow your recipe!!

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  23. Superb post Namitha, Croissants looks divine :))

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  24. Great recipe and awesome pics... Wonderful post Sunitha..

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  25. Nice recipe. Looks so delicious and tempting.

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  26. Beautiful works, Thanks for sharing the detail steps.

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  27. these are my fav.beautiful explanation with nice clciks

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  28. Wow!It's really amazing to see such perfect croissants! Hats off for all the hard work to make those baking beauties!

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  29. Cute looking crossaints..definitely worth to try..

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  30. These are so cute...gives the feeling to get the taste now only.

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  31. Gr8 step by step demo...Sometimes i make croissants with spicy potato stuffing...will try ur stuffing nxt time.

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  32. This reminds me that I haven't baked croissants for a while....time to start again. Yours look absolutely delish!

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  33. I am drooling over the one with chocolate filling....:D

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  34. WOW!! They look fantastic!! Superb clicks..

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  35. wow impressive, am going to do it one weekend, to have better weekend for sure :) beautiful click

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  36. Wow - thanks for the tutorial pics, i know how hard they can be to put those together. The croissants came out amazing!

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