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