First Croissant Dough
I just finished making croissant dough for the very first time with information I could find on the internet. Wow. Making croissant dough is tough, and I'm still I'm not sure I did it correctly. What I just made tastes good, though it's reminiscent of a bread-child between a buttermilk biscuit and a croissant.
I regret leaving them in the refrigerator overnight after folding the dough, I should've let them rise to something larger. Also I think I put too much milk in them and didn't kneed the dough as much as I should have done. They're tasty, surprisingly! I am absolutely shocked they turned out edible and that those 17 hours of creation, refrigeration and proofing didn't go to waste!
I combined a few recipes posted on these forums to create this Frankenstein deliciousness (Croissants, but with more milk than originally planned):
I put some almond paste in these (Same dough):
I haven't tried the bear claws yet, I'm too excited that I didn't burn them to oblivion, or that they're not hard as rocks that I had to post this and share these creations to the world. Also, I'm sure the almond paste filling resembles a hot lava that would scorch the tongue for at least the next 20 minutes.
Hooray!
Tips? Thoughts?
*Just realized I should post this as a blog.
Comments
It's time to find out what the big deal is about Thomas's English muffin's peaks and vallets or nooks and crannies. Is this such a big secret that none of us can figure it out? This is big because they made the front page of the NY Times for blocking someone from a job because he knows "the secret"
ciao