Recipe Butter Croissants
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medtran49
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We each just had a chocolate filled one for dessert. Yummy, yummy!
You have no idea how happy this makes me feel. Its not as if its a 'me' thing as its not my recipe. But I'm just so pleased it worked. I must be getting soppy (not my style, normally). 
medtran49
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I just shaped the butter for another batch of these earlier. Among other things, I'll be making "pigs in blankets" with all-beef hot dogs, mustard and cheese with some of the dough. More pain au chocolat as well.
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GadgetGuy
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I once tried to make those. They didn't come out right. To me, croissants & puff pastry are the two hardest things to make!!
Croissants are on my list to make, but probably just the once, just to see if I can do it.
When I do, I'm using this video as a guide. Watch it, Shermie, it might make you want to give it a go!
Its not that difficult - you simply need to follow instructions. I do swear by the PH recipe in the top post - you do need high fat content butter for success although I have successfully made vegan croissants using Tomor margarine. They weren't shaped quite as well as the butter ones nor as flakey:
medtran49
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All my turns are finally done and the dough is in the fridge for an overnight rise.
GadgetGuy
(Formerly Shermie)
They look like they require a lot of patience. Not one of my greatest talents.
I love good Croissants, with butter and jelly and a good cup of coffee. I'm not a big fan of pain au chocolat. There is a restaurant called la Madeleine near me that makes awesome french breads. I go there from time to time for their French Country Breakfast.
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When we lived in Minneapolis, we used to go to the Sofitel for breakfast Christmas morning, and part of that included a big basket of fresh-baked breads and pastries, including croissants.
rascal
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Best I've had was in sacre Coeur in Paris. We get ok ones here but never the same as those. I make a dessert with croissant here, I rip about 4 up and add a brûlée custard and chunks of chocolate. It's very very nice.
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medtran49
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Well, I got 6 pigs in blankets, learning after the first couple that I needed to cut the dough a bit smaller than needed, then roll out so dough is a bit thinner and the rectangle is the correct size to wrap. The rest were 4 pain au chocolat and 7 small croissants.
medtran49
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The top right are 3 of the pigs in blankets I made. The largest 1 is before I realized I needed to roll the dough thinner. There was our homemade mustard and a slice of colby cheese, besides the all beef hot dog inside.
Top left pain au chocolate logs, 4. The bottom is, obviously, small croissaints.
Top left pain au chocolate logs, 4. The bottom is, obviously, small croissaints.