Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- oven;
- a baking sheet;
- silicone baking mat / parchment;
- measuring cup / scales;
- cutting board;
- rolling pin;
- tea spoon;
- tablespoon;
- fork;
- knife;
- silicone spatula for baking;
- two small deep plates;
- serving plate.
Ingredients
| Product | amount |
| Puff pastry (yeast) | 500 g |
| Flour | 25-30 g |
| Chocolate | 100 g or 1 tile |
| Salt | 0.5 tsp |
| Egg | 1 PC. |
Step cooking
Puff pastry can be prepared at home, but this process is quite laborious and lengthy. The dough, which is sold in stores, is not inferior to homemade. Before starting work with the dough, it must be thawed at room temperature. Remove it in advance from the freezer. Most often, this process takes an hour and a half, but check the information on the test packaging that you bought. From this stage depends on how air croissants will turn out.
- When the dough unfreezes, you can start working with it. Put one sheet of dough on a table or on a kitchen board sprinkled with a small amount of flour (25-30 g). It will not let the dough stick to the surface, and thanks to this, you can easily turn it over.
- Roll the dough a little on both sides using a rolling pin.
- Cut the dough into equal triangular pieces, as shown in the photo.
- Break a bar of chocolate into pieces. Place a piece of chocolate on the base of each triangle.
- Wrap the chocolate in the dough to form a croissant.
- Turn on the oven. It needs to be heated to 180 degrees. Cover the baking tray with parchment or use a special silicone mat.
- Put croissants on a baking sheet. Make sure that between them there is a distance of 2-3 centimeters, since when baking they will increase in size. Let the croissants come up a bit, leaving them out for 20-30 minutes in a warm place. Do not skip this step, because if you do not follow it, then bagels can lose their shape when baking.
- When they come, break one egg, separating the yolk from the protein (you need a yolk).
- Add half a teaspoon of salt to the yolk and whisk it.
- Using a silicone brush, coat each croissant on top with yolk. This will help to get a beautiful golden crust on your pastries.
- Send the croissants to the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes (depending on your oven). Turn off the oven when the croissants are golden crusted. Allow them to cool completely to room temperature.
Did you know? Croissants are considered traditional French pastries. The first air buns began to be sold in one of the Parisian pastry shops in 1839. But now it is unlikely that there will be at least one coffee house in the world where such bagels with various fillings are not served: from sweet to salty.
Decoration methods and presentation options
Although ready-made croissants already look appetizing, if desired, they can be decorated with chocolate. Here are some decoration options:
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave or in the steam bath. Using a spoon, pour them every bagel.
- You can also sprinkle them with finely chopped nuts on top until the chocolate has frozen.
- Or you can just sprinkle croissants with grated or chopped chocolate.
Traditionally, croissants are served for breakfast with coffee (for children, coffee can be replaced with cocoa).
Video recipe
On the video you can see a good example of making croissants with chocolate.
Dear readers, have you baked croissants before? Perhaps you have suggestions for improving this recipe? Share your ideas in the comments.
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