How to make croissants step by step

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Ingredient

Milk (cold) 1 cup (250 ml)

 1/2 cup (125 ml) hot water

Active dry yeast 1 tablespoon

1/4 cup (50 g) sugar

All purpose flour 3 + 3/4 cups (500 g) 

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup + 2 tbsp (9 0z/ 250 g) butter, frozen and left at room

How to make

  • Pour milk and hot water into a large mixing bowl. 
  • Mix the ingredients together by hand.
  • Pour all the ingredients on a clean table. Knead the dough together by hand. (It should take about 2 minutes.) Place the kneaded dough in an oiled cup and refrigerate for 1 hour.
  • By covering the food with plastic wrap on the table. Finished, take the frozen butter that has been left at room temperature for 20-30 minutes and scrape it up.
  • Spread the butter evenly. It is a rectangle, about 8 * 5 inches. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
  • Take the chilled dough and knead it into a rectangle about 16 * 10 inches.
  • Turn the dough horizontally. Use a rolling pin to make pressure marks.
  • Wrap the dough in three folds as shown in the picture. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour (hereinafter referred to as steps 8 and 9 as 1 cycle).
  • After refrigerating for 1 hour, remove the dough from the plastic wrap and make 1 round of dough (steps 8 – 9). P.S. Do not forget to bring it back to the plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
  • Repeat step 10 two more times (total total will go through the process 4 times). 
  • Cut the dough into four pieces. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 8-12 hours (if stored in the freezer, it can be kept for about 3 months).
  • Take out 1 piece of dough, knead it into a rectangle size 16 * 6 inches, cut it into 3 squares and cut it into triangles as shown
  • Stretch out the triangular dough. By giving the short side as the base.
  • Make a small incision at the base of the triangle. Then stretch out a little Roll the dough from the base up to the top. 
  • Place the finished roll on the cookie sheet. Wrap the tray with plastic wrap. leave it cool Let the dough expand for 2-3 hours.
  • Preheat the oven to 220 C (450 F), beat the eggs and brush the eggs over the croissants with a brush. Put the croissant dough in the oven. Gold remove from oven set aside to cool ready to serve.