🇫🇷 France cuisine · #1

Croissant

Croissant
Time720 min
Serves12
Ingredients8

France's flaky butter crescent, crisp outside with many soft layers inside — the symbol of the French breakfast.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Knead flour, salt, sugar, yeast, water and milk; chill the dough overnight.
  2. Beat the cold butter into a square between baking papers.
  3. Enclose the butter in the dough, roll to a rectangle and fold in three; chill 30 minutes and repeat 3 times.
  4. Roll 4 mm thick, cut long triangles and roll from base to tip.
  5. Prove 2 hours, glaze with egg and bake at 200°C for 15–18 minutes.