Easiest Way to Make Ultimate Light and Fluffy Croissants

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During the year-long preparation for the competition (where my team won first place), I refined a recipe for light, flavorful, flaky croissants—the best I've ever made. The keys are a pre-fermented dough (also called a sponge), fresh top-quality butter, working the dough on a cool surface, and rolling, turning, and cutting the dough precisely. Line baking sheet with waxed paper. Croissants are made with a yeasted, laminated dough, which is similar to puff pastry.

Light and Fluffy Croissants is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Light and Fluffy Croissants is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have light and fluffy croissants using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Light and Fluffy Croissants:

1. Take For the batter:
2. Make ready 210 grams Bread flour
3. Take 100 grams Cake flour
4. Prepare 133 ml Water
5. Prepare 30 grams Egg
6. Get 20 grams Butter
7. Get 32 grams Sugar
8. Prepare 8 grams Skim milk powder
9. Take 6 grams Salt
10. Prepare 3 1/2 grams Dry yeast
11. Prepare Insert Sheet:
12. Prepare 130 grams Butter

Beat the egg with the tablespoon of water to make the egg wash. Cool on a rack before serving. Known in France as croissants de boulanger, this yeasted dough is layered with butter and given a succession of folds that create the distinctive profile of classic croissants. Light and airy and shatteringly crisp, with a deeply caramelized buttery flavor, these croissants are a labor of love that's absolutely worth the time.

Steps to make Light and Fluffy Croissants:

1. Add all of the batter ingredients into the bread machine and set it to make the dough. Once done, cover it with plastic wrap and let it sit in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2. Cover the butter insert sheet with cake flour (not included in the ingredients) and roll it out thinly to a 20cm x 30cm shape and once done, chill it in the refrigerator.
3. Dust some bread flour onto the counter top and roll out the dough you made in step 1 into a 60cm x 30cm shape. Place the butter from Step 2 onto the center of the dough. Now fold it into three layers.
4. Wrap it with plastic wrap and let it chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then take it out and roll it back out to a 60cm x 30cm shape. Fold it again into three layers and roll it out once again.
5. Divide the dough into halves and roll each one into 40cm x 18cm pieces. Then cut them into triangular shapes.
6. From the edge, roll them up. Place the seam edge on the bottom because they are going to expand. Make sure to leave space between them.
7. Spray water on the surface of the dough and then let the dough rise at 35℃ to 40℃. (Your oven's bread-rising setting.)
8. Next, coat the surface of the croissants with a beaten egg (not listed in the ingredients.) Preheat your oven to 180℃, let them bake for 10-15 minutes, and they are done!
9. If you gather together all of the dough scraps, you can use it to make mini croissants.

Known in France as croissants de boulanger, this yeasted dough is layered with butter and given a succession of folds that create the distinctive profile of classic croissants. Light and airy and shatteringly crisp, with a deeply caramelized buttery flavor, these croissants are a labor of love that's absolutely worth the time. Brush triangles with extra melted butter and roll into croissants. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar and filled with hazelnut cream. Once the croissants are rolled, be careful not to destroy all those beautiful layers you worked to build up.

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