Croissants Recipe
This simplified croissant recipe will have you baking croissants like a pro. Flaky, buttery, and deliciously authentic, yet so easy to make.
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Calories: 300kcal
Servings: 5 people
Equipment
- Plastic Wrap
- Oven
- Pastry Brush
Ingredients
- 625 g all-purpose flour
- 10.5 g active dry yeast
- 312.5 ml warm milk
- 37.5 g granulated sugar
- 12.5 g salt
- 312.5 g unsalted butter cold
- 5 eggs beaten (for egg wash)
Instructions
- Activate the yeast: Mix warm milk with yeast, let it sit until frothy.
- Mix dough: Combine flour, sugar, salt, add yeast mixture, mix until dough forms.
- Knead dough: Knead until smooth, elastic.
- Chill dough: Wrap, refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Prepare butter: Pound cold butter into flat rectangle, chill.
- Laminate dough: Roll out dough, place butter, fold, roll, repeat 2 more times.
- Shape croissants: Roll out dough, cut into triangles, roll tightly.
- Proof: Let croissants rise until doubled in size.
- Bake: Until golden brown, about 15-20 minutes.
Notes
Instant yeast may be substituted. Rise time may need to be reduced by 10 to 15 minutes. You'll know your dough is done rising when it has doubled in volume.
Nutrition
Calories: 300kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 5g | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 15g