Gave croissants another try. Definitely getting better at them.
I messed up and didn't have milk on hand when making the dough, so I substituted water and milk powder. I was eating some plain whole yogurt at the time and decided to toss some of that in too!
I used a new butter for this, a European-style 83% butterfat one.
Still struggled with the rolling out – I think part of the blame goes to my french rolling pin. So, I went to home depot and picked up a 2" diameter wooden dowel that I'm going to cut down to about 19" long. Gonna try that for the next batch. Ended up measuring the last step wrong and cut 11 croissants instead of 12 so they were a little bigger than normal (none of my customers complained about that!).
You can tell that I overproofed them a bit by the cross section. But overall, I'm pretty happy with the honeycomb. Gonna try again with Plugra soon. And of course they smelled and tasted delicious!
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A nice honeycomb is just a bonus for me. Croissants are always delicious!
Nothing like baking a complicated pastry dough (croissants are complicated, no?) and winging it with ingredients that you happen to have on hand.
These look yummy!
I can't see your customers having anything to complain about :)
Well done!