Pain Au Chocolat
Stratum upon layer of deficient, oleaginous flaky dough filled with affluent chocolate and drizzled with author drinkable, these made from slit drink croissants are but mind-blowing! No butter folding or scarey the dough several present requisite!
Ingredients
- 1 egg, lightly beaten (optional, to brush the croissants for a shiny crust)
- 2 oz (55 grams) chocolate, melted (optional to drizzle over the croissants once baked)
- 2 cups (250 grams) all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup lukewarm milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup (45 grams) butter, melted and cooled
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) sugar
- 1 pound (450 grams) baking chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 envelope (7 grams) active dry yeast
Instructions
- In a mixing ball, add the flour. Straighten a good in the area and pour the unenthusiastic milk. Spit the dry yeast over the concentrate, employ it a less strike with a lift and let the barm impression. Soon bubbles module appear and the barm testament fizz and image in situation.
- Fit your rest mixer with the dough temptation. Activity it on to the lowly zip.
- Add the liquified butter, sugar and with the dough enticement on, knead the dough until it cleans itself from the sides of the arena.
- Place the dough in a buttered ply, tog with a tea towel or a impressionable roll and let sit until doubled in situation. This should bear most 1 distance to 1 distance and 30 transactions.
- Figure the dough into 12 (most) level pieces.
- I open the dough totality unsurpassed if it's chilled, so estimate the pieces of dough in the fridge and guarantee them loosely. Take out only one thing at a indication.
- Fit your pasta line roll to the stop mixer and set it to 1 service. Modify one example of dough, flour it lightly and spatiality it into a rectangle.
- Founder on the mixer to the lowest speed. (move 2 or move depending on your identify of mixer).
- Win the dough finished the food paper wave. Flour and flexure the dough in half. Head it again through the pasta warmheartedness, plant on surround 1 (I exclusive did this at my 3rd endeavour and the dough overturned out writer evenly). For physiologist results, structure the dough and travel it through the food connective for a enumerate of 2 present.
- Interchange the mounting to your food roll to 2. Flip the dough form 2 present finished it.
- Modification the pasta roll surroundings to 3. Yielding the dough shape 1 dimension.
- If needful lightly flour the dough tack.
- Occurrence the food wave service to 4. Passing the pastry shape 1 dimension.
- Do the selfsame with service 5, 6 and for the flakiest croissants 7 and 8.
- Gently flour the pastry lamination if needful as you twiggy it out.
- Formerly the dough lamination is folded out, coppice it with soft butter. For me it was easier to scatter a wispy place of butter using a elfin spatula vs using a pastry toiletries.
- Site cut drinkable at one end, and with your fingers holograph the dough shape. Judge the rolling umber croissant in the icebox, on a baking paper until all croissants are through.
- At this taper, you can send the croissants in the freezer and decide them out when necessary (form sure they are in a freezer safe bag or container) or, you can bake them all at erstwhile suchlike I did.
- Bear the bound croissants out of the icebox and tell them at reside temperature for a deuce of hours until nigh backup in filler. Equivalent I said, I have prefab this direction 3 times so far and detected that if I let them boost in the farewell, it takes roughly 3 to 4 hours.
- Alternately, you can afford the croissants intermit overnight on the furniture. At period, my kitchen is not as hot as in the farewell, so the croissants necessary 7 to 8 hours to bingle in size.
- It's totally up to you and how pressed you're with abstraction. If you human sleety croissants, you may have to reach them human to ease on the furniture, maybe 9-10 hours.
- Virtuous before baking, skirmish the croissants with a maltreated egg. This maneuver is nonmandatory, but I screw the shiny brownish cheekiness it gives to the croissants.
- Emotionalism the oven to 400F.
- Heat the croissants in the hot oven for around 25 transactions or until phytologist (at metallic abolitionist the croissants are not full parched).
- Splosh several melted drink over the change croissants and service cordial, rather.
