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Croissants

Ingredients
  

Dough

  • 375 g Plain Flour
  • 9 g Instant Yeast
  • 200 g Milk cold
  • 50 g Unsalted Butter rolled into a 7mm thick rectangle piece of butter
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Tablespoon Sugar
  • 1 egg

Laminating Butter

  • 200 g Unsalted Butter

Instructions
 

  • Place all the ingredients into a blender and blitz until combine.
  • Knead it for 3 minutes and then rest the dough in the refrigerator for at least 40 minutes. (I leave it overnight).
  • Roll out the dough into a rectangle twice the length of the butter.
  • Wrap the butter into the dough. Roll out and fold the dough twice, like folding a letter.
  • Wrap the dough into cling wrap, and store in the refrigerator until the dough has risen.
  • Remove the dough from the fridge and roll out to 7mm thick. Repeat the fold.
  • Refrigerate a further 02 minutes and then roll out and do another letter fold.
  • When done with folding a third time, the dough is ready with 27 layers..
  • Shape and bake at 180C for 15 minutes on a medium to high oven rack.