Ever since I was a kid and saw croissants at my nana’s I was enthralled with how crazy they looked. They seemed to be the perfect invention. Not only did they meet my kid level of cookie goodness but, they also doubled as fake bull horns.
I have wanted to try making croissants for years but, the process of making them has always scared me. Figuring out to roll out butter, keeping the dough cold, rolling it to the right measurements, AND somehow preventing the layers from mushing together seemed overwhelming.
Any who, I told myself last week that “I am almost 20, I can make croissants! I mean after all what is the worst that could happen?”
Luckily, they turned out great, despite many close calls of the dough getting too warm. I am pretty sure it had to do with Sally’s Baking Addiction’s recipe.
Here is the link to her recipe: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/homemade-croissants/
The dough was pretty easy to make. Sally had a really cool tip about mixing the butter with a little bit of flour to make it easier to spread into the rectangle. The folding went pretty well, though by the third turn I was beginning to be worried that the butter was breaking though the dough, since the dough was getting warm. So it quickly got shoved into the fridge.
The cutting confused me at the beginning but I think I figured out something that worked. When I cut the triangles, they were a bit off center, but I think as long straightened them with my fingers first before rolling them out with the roll pin, the layers seemed to stay in tack. There were quite a few uneven ones in the end.
AND into the oven they went! When the croissants came out, THEY HAD LAYERS!!! To be honest, I was a bit surprised they still had them after the third fold;)
I think my layers were still a little thick when I looked at the cross section, but they were still delicious. The croissants were not nearly as hard I had made them out to be in my brain. And they were definitely worth the effort. My family had demolished them within 24 hours, which I think testifies to the croissants’ deliciousness.
In short….. GO MAKE THEM!!!
-Ellie