I made croissants this morning, my first ever foray into the pastry world, normally the domain of my wife. You’ll have to trust me that they were a lot better than they look. It’s 9 pm now and I’m finally recovering from a croissant induced coma.
There are some other cool things you can do with laminated dough. I’ll try fruit Danish next time and maybe pick a day when I don’t have to drive or otherwise be functional.
I’m wondering if it would be valuable to shoot a video to demonstrate how this novice can klutz his way through a challenging recipe and still achieve praise worthy results.
Next time I’ll work on the presentation. I thought that part would be sort of easy. Boy was I wrong… as you can see.
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I think they look stunning, delicious and not like croissants. I adore them.
I think this is great. If everything you did turned out perfectly the very first time, it’d scare some of us away! I live in the land where croissants are readily available and taste fantastic, so I am not too likely to attempt something this challenging. If you made a how-to video, however, I’d watch it and consider someday gathering enough courage to take the plunge.
So, tell us which recipe you followed! I’d love to give that a try!
Thanks for the nice feedback and encouragement.
I followed the croissant recipe from Ciril Hitz (www.breadhitz.com) book entitled baking artisan bread. Next time I think I’ll try a recipe from Esther McManus who did a croissant show with Julia Childs. The actual recipes are very simple. It’s the process of making them that’s rather elaborate.
I would love to see a video of how you made them.
I’d also enjoy watching a video about baking croissants. They look really nice and flaky!
i would love to see a video too.
i’m making the spelt and country bread after got inspired by your videos. we love croissant too and would love to see how to make it.
I will definitely make a croissant video. But I’m all excited about an awesome (I think) sourdough rye bread I just have to do a video on first. So it’ll be a few weeks. Maybe less.
If they taste better than they look, they must have been FABULOUS.