I made croissants for the first time today! Sorry to whoever follows me on Instagram. I know, I subjected you to a constant string of ‘croissant spam’ and it might have looked like I was doing nothing but make croissants this week-end.
I did nothing but make croissants this week end! In all fairness, I might be exaggerating a tad. I did take the kids to a friend’s party, and we also went swimming today, but the rest of the week-end was pretty much dedicated to the fine art of baking croissants.
Oh my goodness, is there anything more time-consuming than making croissants? I thought macarons were a bit of a faff. Ha ha ha, making macarons is like putting a slice of bread in the toaster when baking croissants is a full fry up from scratch, bread included!
Until the last minute, I was fretting by the oven, worried that they might not look or taste like croissants. They did! They were scrumptious, flaky, and buttery, just like good croissants should be. The first bite was a proud moment I have to say.
Dear bakers, you really do an amazing job. I will never moan again about the price of croissants. I also pledge to always fully appreciate the effort that has gone into making the delicious sweet pastries.
I took a hundreds of photos as I was making the croissants, and I would be happy to share the recipe, which comes from a French baking apprenticeship manual. Just let me know if you fancy it and I will put my translating hat on.
YES! Please please PLEASE share the croissants recipe! I have always wanted to give it a go! (PS My friend works at a patisserie and tells me they have a big fancy piece of equipment to make them!) 🙂
I bet they do in big places. In small French bakeries, they have mixers, but I think the biggest part of the job is done by hand.
I am very impressed! Last time. I. Tried I got in a buttery mess and it ended in the bin!
They look delicious, definitely worth the wait.
I wouldn’t do it every week-end, but they were scrumptious!
Oh oui, on veut avoir la recette ! Tes croissants sont parfaits dignes d’un bon boulangerie française ! Bravo à tout l’équipe 😉
Merci Eva. Quel travail, mais qu’est-ce que c’est bon, un croissant au beurre fait maison!
Well done huni! I love baking but have never attempted croissants, they look like they would be hard! 🙂 x
They look utterly divine honey, well done you xxx #magicmoments
Thanks hun! xx
My mouth is watering now – those look delicious! I love croissants but can’t imagine I would veer have the patience to make them! #magicmoments
Well that croissant does look fab, I bet you were really chuffed with how it turned out. I must admit we have the tescos own brand croissants when we get them, never as nice as the freshly baked French croissants though! Popping over from Magic Moments.
I was so relieved when I opened the oven door and they looked like croissants, not a melted mush of dough!
I saw how this is done in an anime show that I love when I was a teenager =P
I know how much work is needed and how much skills too. Its looks so nice and yes we now know why its so pricey in stores. #magicmoments
Definitely. I shall not complain again!
yay Mel .. well done! i adore croissants but would not know where to start to make them! well done for giving it a go and for doing so well too!
Thanks for linking up with #MagicMoments
I had no idea where to start either… and I didn’t even read the whole recipe before I started (tip: never do that!). It took 24 hours from start to finish, ha ha!
duly noted! lol *read recipe first* lol x
Yumm I think croissants are one of my most favourite brekkie foods ever!
Well Done! Unfortunately for me my 6 year old son has now seen this and is asking me to make them too! Wish me luck.
So sorry about that, Alex! Good luck, he he!
Of COURSE we want the recipe ;). They look amazing. Am on a mission to try and make some gluten-free. I think dairy-free as well is pushing it because in my view what is the point in a non-buttery croissant!
Good luck with the gluten-free ones, my lovely. I am not too sure how you could get the pastry to be ‘elastic’ enough to manage something similar, but I am sure you have a few tricks for that!
Hi Mel, were these for ‘normal’ people or allergy free? I so miss fine pastry and can’t tolerate yeast either so miss out on gluten free bread too 🙁 Long for more choice, but we’ve come a long way in just 20 years since my son was small. There was hardly anything then, I had to buy him natural food colourings for his cakes I made from special shops by post.
Sorry Kim, these are full of wheat, yeast, butter…
You are brave – I’ve only ever made cheats croissants – I’m put off by the endless layers proper croissants need! I’m sure they tasted amazing though!
They tasted nothing like the ready-made dough, but the amount of work required was phenomenal!
I saw these on Instagram! They looked delicious! x
They were gorgeous: flaky, buttery, moreish little nuggets of happiness!
Oh amazing, I’ve never dared make them. They look superb. xx
First time for me! The recipe was rather long and technical, but if you follow all the steps, it seems pretty fool proof.
They look delicious. I made croissants last week, too. I realised too late that I’d accidentally used SR flour instead of strong flour, but figured I might as well carry on by that time – they weren’t perfect, but not half bad… there were none left, anyway. I made a cheats creme pat, and put that in some, to try to replicate the custardy-vanilla ones we had on holiday last year, and which my son was craving. You’re right, not an everyday bake, but it’s good to do something different and challenge yourself now and then 🙂
Same here, they were not as airy as they would have been in a French bakery, but they were still yummy. Did you take any photos of yours? x
I have a serious issue with pastry (namely, I can’t stop eating it), which is why I avoid these. They look absolutely scrumptious, and would be perfect with a hot cup of coffee. (I’m getting hungry now). I bet they were so time-consuming!! I bet the bakers would love you for cutting them some slack for the price of croissants now! xxx
Same here. One is never enough. I need four or five to feel satisfied!
Oh well done Mel – that croissant looks very scrummy. I’ve always been tempted to make some myself but not sure my baking skills are quite up to it!
I must admit that if I had realised they would take 24 hours to make, I probably would not even have started, but I am glad I did in the end!
These look amazing. I’v always been afraid to make them because then I’d know just how much butter was in them! A cafe near where I work, in Sydney, Australia, makes them on premises then fills them with beautiful ham and cheese then grills them with a bechamel sauce inside. It’s the last word in decadence!
I had to check 6 or 7 times I was getting the correct amount of butter. Check my Instagram feed if you are curious!
So beautiful Mel, I wish you lived closer so we cook cook and eat together. Thanks for linking up x
It would be brilliant, wouldn’t it? I am sure we will manage to sort something out soon. xx
Would love that x
Oh gosh I think it would be VERY dangerous if I learned how to make croissants. Even that pic is making me salivate. I so want to buy some RIGHT now! If it was day time I would so be going to the shops just on the strength of this post xx
M&S & Café Nero make pretty good ones actually. I will never moan about the price of croissants ever again!
P.S. YES PLEASE DO put your translating cap on! xx
I will try to get that done in the next week or so! x
Oh it looks so delicious, I’d never dream of trying to make them myself, ha! Haven’t had one for aaaaaages though x #magicmoments
Made them again yesterday. Yum!
My daughter was just asking me the other day about making croissants (which we’ve never done, only made them from a tube of Pillsbury.) I can imagine yours taste 100 times better.
They taste lovely, but what a faff! I still have to translate the recipe.
one of those foods ( like puff pastry) that are just easier to buy than make, but well done on the personal satisfaction of going for it. They look fab. #magicmoments
Thanks Elaine. I would never had attempted them had I known they were such a faff to make!
Hi,
I would love to try the recipe, is it in french? I can read french so if you could post it in french that would be great.
I made those croissants half a dozen times yet I still haven’t typed the recipe, sorry! Now you’re giving me an incentive to do it. I’ll do it by the end of the month 🙂