MEDITERRANEAN BITES: Homemade Vanilla Croissant

Homemade Vanilla Croissant

Is there anything more beautiful than eating warm vanilla croissants in the morning? Great way to sweeten and start the day. It takes a while to make homemade croissants, so take a few hours in the afternoon or evening, and don’t rush into making this on quick. There will be a lot of kneading, rising, shaping and than waiting for the dough to rise. But with results you’ll put a smile on everyone’s faces, and praises won’t fail. Also, yes, sometimes we just gotta give into carbs. And by carbs I mean homemade croissants, strait out the oven. They’re sow much better than brownies. Dough in this recipe has excellent structure.

You know how croissants are nice and soft when they’re warm, and than they become little firm when cool down. Well these croissants stay quite soft and nice and the day after. That is if anything remains the day after. I strongly recommend this recipe.

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Ingredients:

· Butter 250g /1 cup/

· Plain flour 800g /6.4 cups/

· Milk 2 dl /1 cup/

· 2 ½ teaspoon Dry active yeast

· 2 tablespoons sugar

· 2 egg yolks

· 2 teaspoons salt

· Oil 2 dl /1 cup/

· Yogurt 100ml /½ cup/

· Sugar powder for dusting 20g /¼ cup/

For Vanilla Pudding:

· Vanilla instant pudding mix powder 100g /1 cup/

· Milk 500ml /2 cups/

· 3 tablespoons sugar

· 1 egg

· 1 tablespoon milk

Directions:

1. Combine in a deep bowl butter, 2 tbsp of flour, 1 cup of milk, and 2 tbsp of white sugar.

2. Take a cup and dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Add 2 egg yolk, 2 tsp of salt, oil, yogurt, dissolved yeast and blend with remaining flour. Mix well, and knead the dough until it gets smooth. The dough should clear the sides of the bowl and doesn’t stick. Cover the dough, and wrap with kitchen towel. Leave in a warm place for 1 hour.

3. Once the dough is doubled, divide it into 7 parts. Pat and stretch the dough to form a circle, than cut it into 4 triangles. Smear butter over every triangle.

4. Cook the vanilla pudding. Pour 2 cups of milk, vanilla powder and 3 tbsp of sugar and cook all until milk boils. Stir constantly. When you get a compact mass the pudding is done.

5. Smear vanilla pudding over each triangle and roll out the dough to form croissant. Repeat with all remaining 6 parts of dough and fill it with vanilla pudding.

6. In a small bowl beat together 1 egg and 1 tbsp of milk. Glaze croissants with egg wash. Preheat the oven at 200 degrees C /390 F/.

7. In oiled baking dish place croissants and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 15-20 min. When croissants get golden brown crust, take them out.

8. Sprinkle with sugar powder.

Calories: 320

Preparation time: 2 hours | Cook time: 20 min | Serves: 28

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