What do we mean by the word croissant? Well, of course, France, a cozy little cafe, a cup of strong coffee and a unique taste of crispy pastry with incredibly tasty filling. But, what if you cook such croissants from puff pastry at home?

Croissants from ready-made puff pastry with jam

Appetizing, ruddy, with fresh fruit filling, such croissants will simply turn the head of everyone who tries them.

To bake such a charm you will need:

  • Shop puff yeast dough - 200 g;
  • Flour - how much will the dough take (about 100 g);
  • Jam - 200 g;
  • Dried apricots, nuts and other additives - to your taste.

Step by step recipe:

  1. We take our dough out of the freezer, cover it and let it defrost slightly.
  2. To prevent the dough from drying, cover it with cling film.
  3. After the dough has become soft, slightly pass along it with a rolling pin, forming a rectangle.
  4. Cut the dough into triangles.
  5. On the base of the triangle (the smallest side) put the jam and additives, as you see fit.
  6. Carefully collapse and form beautiful crescents.
  7. We put croissants on a baking sheet at a distance of 2-3 cm from each other.
  8. Let the dough rise, for this we leave it in a warm place for half an hour.
  9. We send the pastries to the oven, heated to 200 degrees.Do not miss croissants. They bake very quickly, within 15-20 minutes.
  10. Just blush - immediately pull out and you can serve.

Condensed Croissants

 

Croissants from ready-made puff pastry that will appeal to absolutely all the sweet tooth. A little fragrant temptation.

Take:

  • Ready puff pastry - 900 g;
  • Condensed milk - 500 g;
  • Egg - 1 pc.;
  • Sugar - 30 - 50 g.

It is interesting: instant puff pastry at home

Cooking this way:

  1. Prepare the dough.Defrost, roll slightly, cut into triangles.
  2. On the base of the triangle we put a spoonful of condensed milk and carefully form a croissant.
  3. We spread on a baking sheet prepared in advance.
  4. Leave the pastries to stand for 15 minutes.
  5. While our croissants are “resting”, we will prepare a mixture for their lubrication.
  6. Break the egg into a bowl, add sugar there.
  7. Beat the mixture with a mixer.
  8. Grease the pastry with the egg and put it in the oven until a blush appears.

Chocolate croissants

 

What can be tastier and more appetizing than chocolate baking? That's right - baking with even more chocolate!

We will need only two ingredients:

  • Puff yeast dough - half a kilogram;
  • Chocolate - 100 g.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Prepare the dough. Lightly form it with a rolling pin, cut into triangles, make incisions.
  2. Take a bar of chocolate and break into pieces that fit comfortably in a triangle.
  3. At the end of the notch, put a piece of chocolate.
  4. We wrap a croissant and give it a beautiful shape.
  5. Carefully pinch the ends of the croissants, making sure that they do not lose their shape, while the chocolate does not leak out in the oven.
  6. Put croissants on the prepared baking sheet. It is not necessary to lubricate it, because the dough itself is quite oily. Optimal - cover the baking sheet with parchment paper.
  7. We spread the croissants at a short distance from each other and let it brew for 10-15 minutes.
  8. If desired, grease the workpiece with egg yolk.
  9. We send the baked goods to the oven preheated to 200 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
  10. Puff pastry croissants with chocolate are ready.

With jam

A great option for tea, coffee, cocoa (for children) and liquors (for older people). And what an appetizing aroma is in the whole house during cooking ... Wait for the neighbors to visit.

Take the following products:

  • Puff pastry - half a kilogram;
  • Jam - 250 g;
  • Eggs - 1 pc.;
  • Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • Powdered sugar - to taste.

Cooking baking in this way:

  1. We prepare puff pastry. Roll out and cut it.
  2. Put a teaspoon of jam on the base of the triangle.
  3. Wrap croissants in a straw. It is important not to spoil the bulk and shape of the baking.
  4. Put them on a baking sheet 2-3 cm apart.
  5. Give infusion test for 10-15 minutes.
  6. We send the blanks to the oven, heated at 200 degrees, for 15-20 minutes.
  7. Sprinkle the finished baking with powdered sugar and send straight to the table.

Puff pastry croissants with cheese and ham

Salty croissants, thoroughly saturated with cheese - a masterpiece that will drive crazy even the most sophisticated gourmets.

We take such products:

  • Flour - 400 g;
  • Milk - 75 ml;
  • Kefir - 175 ml;
  • Vegetable oil - 50 g;
  • Eggs - 2 pcs.;
  • Yeast (dry) - 10 g;
  • Salt - half a teaspoon;
  • Sugar - 1 tsp;
  • Butter - 50 g;
  • Cheese (hard) - 250 g;
  • Ham - 200 g.

Cooking may seem a little complicated, but be sure you can do it.

  1. Sift the flour into a deep bowl.
  2. Add dry yeast, salt and sugar.
  3. Mix the dry mixture.
  4. Add milk, kefir, egg, vegetable oil. The ingredients should be warm.
  5. Knead the dough thoroughly.
  6. Let our test rise. To do this, it must be left in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours.
  7. Divide the dough into three identical “buns”. Cover them with cling film and leave for another 15 minutes.
  8. At this time, we rub the cooked cheese.
  9. Lightly sprinkle flour on the table. Roll out the first layer of dough. In thickness, it should be no more than 5 mm.
  10. Apply softened butter to the formation and sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
  11. We roll out approximately the same thickness and diameter of the second layer, cover it with the previous one and also lubricate it.
  12. With the third layer we do the same.
  13. We divide this “cake” into equal triangles.
  14. We cut ham, as it suits you.
  15. On the edge of the triangle we put a piece of ham and twist the croissant.
  16. We do the same with the rest of the sectors.
  17. We spread the workpieces at a short distance from each other and cover them with cling film. Leave it for 20 minutes.
  18. Lubricate the blanks with a beaten egg and send to the preheated oven. Baking time - 10-20 minutes.

Banana Filled Croissants

Unusual pastries with exotic fillings. Indulge your home with the most delicious dessert.

Ingredients:

  • Puff pastry - packaging;
  • Egg - 1 pc.;
  • Banana - 2 pcs.;
  • Flour - to sprinkle the table;
  • Cinnamon to taste.

We start cooking:

  1. We prepare puff pastry.
  2. Remove the skin from the bananas.
  3. We cut the bananas into cubes, so it will be more convenient to lay them on the dough.
  4. Put a few bananas on the dough triangles and sprinkle them with cinnamon. Choose the amount of spice at your discretion.
  5. Carefully wrap our croissants.
  6. We spread the blanks on the prepared baking sheet and let them stand for 10-15 minutes.
  7. We send the pastries to the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown.

Cottage Cheese Recipe

The taste of tender, almost creamy curd and crispy crumbly dough is simply indescribable. It can not be described in words.

For cooking, we need:

  • Puff pastry - half a kilogram;
  • Cottage cheese - 350 g;
  • Raisins (light) - 150 g;
  • Sugar - 2 tbsp. l;
  • Eggs - 2 pcs.

Cooking croissants in the following order:

  1. Soak the raisins for five minutes in boiling water.
  2. In parallel, we prepare triangles from the dough.
  3. Swollen raisins mixed with sugar, egg and cottage cheese.
  4. We apply the filling and carefully wrap the workpieces.
  5. We give the croissants a distance of 10 minutes.
  6. We put in a preheated oven for 10-20 minutes.

As you can see, cooking your own, homemade, delicious croissants is extremely simple and every hostess can afford it. Therefore, arrange more often in the family days of France to pack up a cup of coffee or cocoa and have a bite of crispy pastries of this country.

How to wrap croissants from puff pastry?

Real French croissants look like rosy crescents with a viscous or semi-liquid filling inside.

There is a beautiful legend that once Viennese bakers, who baked croissants in the morning for the townspeople, prevented the attack of the Ottoman army, due to the fact that they heard at night how the Turks were digging.

 

But, it is not for us to judge whether this is true or not. Our task is to understand how to make croissants such as in cozy French cafes. For this:

  1. We take puff pastry and level it with our hands.
  2. We cut the dough into identical squares, and they, in turn, are diagonally into triangles.
  3. We find the shortest side on the triangle, here we will put the filling.
  4. Cut this side into a centimeter. This cut will help to form the correct shape.
  5. We put the cooked stuffing and begin to gradually roll up the tube, while slightly pulling the far corner with the second hand.

Attention. In no case can you carefully roll puff pastry with a rolling pin, otherwise it loses its main property - to divide into layers.

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