Butter Croissant

Makes 8-10 croissant Prep Time 3 hours   Cook Time 15 minutes   Rated: Print

There are so many foods in life that are tonnes better made from scratch - chewy, flaky, buttery croissants is one of them. Well worth the effort.

Ah, the butter croissant. You know me and butter...right? You butter believe it! Well, I may or may not admit to serving these buttery, flaky croissants with more butter on the side. Or Va Va Voom Vanilla Strawberry Jam... Or just a big ole melted hot chocolate, (viva la France!) there’s no time like the present, to present yourself with some of these...worth every bit of effort. I promise.

Flaky, golden, unnecessarily dramatic—kind of like your favourite reality show contestant, but with fewer tears and more butter. Making croissants from scratch might seem like a wild choice (especially when the bakery is just down the road), but trust me, this is your moment. Your butter-laminated, puffed-up, pastry-scented moment. You’ll need patience, a rolling pin, and a slight disregard for personal space in your fridge. But at the end? You’ll pull a tray of buttery, crispy triumph from the oven and whisper, “I am pastry royalty.”

Now go forth. Fold. Chill. Repeat. And don’t lick the butter block (yet).

Try some of our other versions of 'croissant dough' once you have this mastered:

Sourdough Butter Croissants

Almond Frangipane Croissants

Chocolate Almond Croissants!

Sourdough Pain au Chocolat

Pain Aux Raisins

Kouign Amann

Morning Cinnamon Buns

 

 

Need

Do

1  

Place yeast, milk and sugar into Thermomix bowl and blend 5 sec/speed 6. Warm for 2 min/37ºC/speed 1-2.

2  

Add flour and salt and mix 6 sec/speed 6. Knead 3 min/Interval/dough setting.

3  

Turn out onto Silpat mat and roll into a tight ball. Wrap and allow to prove for 30 minutes.

4  

Meanwhile, roll butter between two pieces of baking paper into a large flat square about 1cm thick. Refrigerate.

5  

Roll dough out into a square about 2 cm thick. It needs to be slightly larger than the butter block. Place butter into centre of dough and fold corners in to meet in the middle as though it were an envelope.

6  

Roll dough out again. Fold bottom third up and top third down over bottom. Roll flat and wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

7  

Turn folded dough so that open ends are at the top and bottom and repeat folding bottom third up and top third down over bottom. Roll and refrigerate.

8  

Do this at least three more times. The dough and butter should start forming thin layers.

9  

Preheat oven to 200ºC and line a large baking tray with paper.

10  

Roll dough out one final time to a large rectangle around 2cm thick.

11  

Cut into triangles and roll, starting with wide part and finishing with pointy end. Brush with egg wash, allow to prove again for a little while and bake for 15 minutes or until golden and puffy.

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Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!