Croissant Recipe
Buttery, flaky croissant.
Home baked croissant
This recipe yields about 12 croissants.
Ingredients
- Puff pastry dough
- Egg (lightly beaten) for egg wash, 1 medium
Directions
- Cut the dough into triangles with a base of 12 cm and a height of 21 cm
- Make a 1 cm vertical incision at the middle of the base of each triangle
- Roll each triangle from the base to the top and bend the corners into a crescent shape
- Place the croissants on a sheet of baking parchment, cover with cling film, and let rise at room temperature until nearly doubled in size
- Brush each croissant with a little egg wash
- Bake in a preheated oven at 200 C for about 20 minutes
- Cover with aluminum foil in case the croissants get too dark
- Place the croissants on a wire rack to cool for about 30 minutes
How to serve
Serve with butter and strawberry jam.