CROISSANTS

For breakfast, brunch or a refined taste, what a pleasure to get out of the oven specialties hitherto reserved only for professionals. The bakery oven according to your KitchenAid guarantees a result of an incomparable taste and quality.

Ingredients (For 2 plates = 16 croissants) :

•   250 g flour
•   125 g butter
•   2 eggs
•   25 g of sugar
•   15 cl of milk
•   12.5 g yeast
•   1 teaspoon salt

Directions :

   Preparation of the yeast :

Dissolve yeast in milk warmed to 36 ° C. 

Add 85 g of flour and amalgamate seamlessly. If you use a food processor and KitchenAid Artisan dough hook, select a low speed (2). When the dough gathers into a ball around the hook, place it in a container and cover with a damp cloth. Use the Lifting oven KitchenAid (select orders "Funct. Special - Lift ") and make up the leaven for 60 minutes at the recommended level on the screen.

   Preparing the dough :

Form a fountain with the rest of the flour (165 g) and work it with sugar, eggs and salt, incorporatingbutter in small quantities, to obtain a homogeneous paste.

   New kneading :

1. Gather the dough and yeast and knead until the the mixture collects in a ball around the hook if youuse the robot KitchenAid Artisan, or is smooth and supple, without sticking to your fingers if you knead by hand. Place the in a bowl and cover with a damp cloth. Make 30 min up to the recommended level on the screen in selecting the command "Func. Special - Lifting ".

2. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin on floured surface to a thickness giving luis 5 mm. Trim the sides to get a large rectangle and expand it into triangles 10 cm at the base of 15 m high. Brush the surface of the triangles with beaten egg.

Roll dough into the bottom of the triangle for the characteristic shape of a growing and bask again. If you want to prepare stuffed croissants, jam or Other ingredients will be placed in the center, towards the base of the triangle. The proportions are 10 g (one teaspoon) of jam for each triangle.

   Cooking :

1. Place the croissants on a baking sheet (without the grease) and perform a final Lifting: slide the plate level on the screen and select again "Funct. Special-lifting. " Let rise 40 minutes.

2. Then preheat with the commands "Pastry Pro - Croissants" and cook for about 20-30 minutes at the recommended level on the screen. At the exit of the oven, place the croissants on a baking rack and let cool.