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Homemade Chocolate Croissants

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What´s better than waking up in the morning with fresh homemade chocolate croissants to accompany your coffee in bed while you read the news?! That’s how my perfect morning would be and how I spent my Sunday first light last week; and it was just fantastic!

After tasting these, you won´t ever again buy croissants from the bakery at the corner and you will experience a typical French breakfast!

Ingredients

What´s needed:

400 gr. Of Flour (the same you use for pizza)

150 gr. Of Fresh Cream (the sweet one for desserts)

35 gr. Of Sugar

15 gr. Of Butter

15 gr. Of Yeast

1 ½ teaspoon Of Olive Oil

2 Eggs

8 gr. Of Salt

150 gr. Of Water

A Spoon of Milk

Nutella

The ingredients up here are for 12 croissants. If you wish to make more or less just double or downsize the ingredients (although downsizing an egg can prove to be quite difficult  ). While making your croissants, you can adjust the ingredients by adding flour or cream. Make sure to taste the dough at the end and adjust for sugar if needed!

The total preparation time will take 30 minutes: around 15 minutes for making the dough and another 15 minutes for baking. There will also be a waiting time of half an hour to let the dough rise.

What to do:

Put together in a container the water and the olive oil. Then use a big bowl to mix the yeast with the flour, the cream, the sugar, 1 egg, salt and the water previously mixed with the oil.

I usually like to first start kneading the dough in the bowl and when it starts getting dense, I move it to the kitchen table so as to have more room to “work it”. The dough has to become soft but elastic.

You should let it rest, properly covered with a clean dishcloth, for at least 30 minutes. The dough has to grow to around double of its original size.

When the time has elapsed, work it again for a few minutes and then stretch it and spread it. It should be around 5mm thick.

Cut out 12 triangles with a base of around 10 cm and the sides of around 15 cm. At the center of each triangle, put a teaspoon of nutella. Roll the dough starting from the base. Put each croissant on a baking tray covered first with baking paper.

Once you are done making the croissants; mix the other egg together with a spoon of milk and brush each croissant.

Bake in the oven for 15 min at 190°. Once cooked, let them cool for a few minutes before attacking them!

A good idea for your Sunday morning is to prepare them the night before (let them rest in the fridge), so that in the morning you can just heat up the oven and let them bake. If you want to save a few for your week-days so as to keep your spoiling mood going, you can always freeze them and just take a couple out from the freezer the night before. Heat them up 5 min in the morning and start your working day!

-Image credit: Sara Coppola

Author Bio:

Sara Coppola is a gourmand talian with a love for all things chocolate! When she is not cooking, eating, traveling or snapping pictures, you can find her blogging about fashion and clothing at Miinto UK



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Filed Under: Lifestyle, Recipe Box Tagged With: homemade chocolate croissants, Recipes

Comments

  1. JennieIW says

    November 30, 2012 at 9:06 pm

    These look delicious! I’m a little intimidated by making fresh dough but I might just give this a try.

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  2. Lily says

    December 1, 2012 at 9:48 am

    The picture in the slide-show is hypnotic. It brings out the primitive chocoholic.

    I hope to try these for the holidays.

    OMG!!!

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  3. Anya@IW says

    December 1, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    Ha, I agree the pictures certainly drew my interest! 😉 Yum! I agree these would be great to serve for a holiday breakfast. Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
  4. Pam@IW says

    December 2, 2012 at 10:55 am

    These look delicious and perfect for a holiday treat.

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  5. Sage says

    December 2, 2012 at 11:00 am

    These look heavenly.

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  6. Chardonnay says

    December 2, 2012 at 11:07 am

    They look delicious! I, like JennieIW, am a little intimidated by making the dough, but I know just the person to help me….my Mom! LOL!

    Reply
  7. Michelle G says

    December 2, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Mmm, these look amazing!

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  8. Sara Coppola says

    December 3, 2012 at 2:04 am

    Thank you for the nice comments! It is not as hard as it looks, I hope you enjoy 🙂

    Reply
  9. Kmom2 says

    December 5, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    Can’t ya just use cresent rolls??? LOL Just kidding! Thanks Sara……they look delish!

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  10. krystel says

    May 29, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    yumm yum yum i could vrtually tastse it it loooks so good

    Reply
  11. Terry says

    November 25, 2013 at 6:11 am

    Those look great. My family love chocolate anything! My stepdaughter goes nuts over Nutella.

    Reply

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