We knead to bake #2: February 2013-- Classic Croissants
This blog post is very important to me. Not only did I manage to conquer my "one of the most difficult things to bake" and I started this blog because my facebook album link was not short enough to be posted on +Aparna Balasubramanian 's event of 12 breads in 2012.... :) I still have to write a blog post for the 2 breads I made in the first month. Classic Croissants was the bread to make for the month of February 2013. I started my blog this month ...so I was very late to make the bread and even later with the post. But better late than never. This was one of the most exciting and amazing breads to make. I had seen this recipe long back on this video link. I always thought it was very challenging to roll the butter inside a flour dough......and also because of the quantity of butter used. Also, it's very cheap to buy a box of croissants from a local supermarket :)..... But, this 12 breads of 2013 challenge ...helped me overcome all these excuses to try the lovely flaky croissant and it's variant ""pain-au-chocolat"".. which is nothing but a chocolate stuffed croissant.
I followed the recipe exactly as it was given and shown on Aparna's website here, with a very satisfying result.... :) If anyone wants to make the croissants ,do go through her page for tips and tricks and recipe links she has posted.
