These homemade flaky croissants are the most popular recipe on the blog! This is an easy to follow recipe for how to make super soft croissants and includes tips for successful breakfast pastries with tons of buttery, light, and flaky layers. Serve with your favorite jam or just a cup of coffee for a tasty breakfast treat!
everything in this post: what you need to know about making croissants
What Makes Croissants So Flaky
Is It Hard To Make Croissants At Home
Important Steps To Make Croissants From Scratch
Everything You Need (Only A Few Ingredients!)
Tips For Success
Common Questions For How To Make Homemade Croissants
What To Make With Leftover Dough
what makes croissants so flaky
Magic. Kidding … Seriously, there is an art to making homemade flaky croissants.
The answer is: it is all about the butter, and rolling and folding the dough.
The butter – You are going to put a big slab of butter on top of the dough. It is going to seem like way too much, but it is a necessity for a flaky dough. Butter has water in it. When the butter is heated, the water turns to steam. Then the steam creates pockets within the dough – which translate to flaky layers.
Rolling and folding the dough – The folding technique of the croissant dough is important. The rolled dough is folded into a tri-fold, like a letter. We roll and fold the dough 3 times. With each fold, we create more and more layers. Because I have not yet mastered action shots while making my recipes, here are some good photos of the tri-fold.
is it hard to make croissants at home
Absent the large dough sheeter’s that are in professional kitchen’s and bakeries, making flaky butter croissants at home is possible and can be easy.
In my opinion as a self-taught home baker, patience is key when making croissants. Or really any flaky pastry dough for that matter. I would not recommend trying to rush this recipe.
So, if you are looking for a quick breakfast bread treat, you may want to try a different recipe. Perhaps some delicious homemade buttermilk biscuits, or the wonderfully savory Irish cheddar soda bread.
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