Make bakery-quality croissants at home using plain flour

You can make bakery-quality croissants with just plain flour!
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Timestamps
0:44 Croissant dough
0:53 DDT (Desired dough temperature)
2:08 Butter slab
3:57 3-4-3 fold preparation
4:18 lock-in butter
5:15 Double turn
5:37 Release pressure
5:57 Single turn
6:43 Cutting & rolling croissants
7:31 Proofing croissants
7:49 Wobble test
8:08 Baking croissants
8:19 Final product

Croissant dough
500g Flour
50g Sugar
10g Salt
250g Water
100g Soften butter ( At least 80% butterfat )
24g Fresh yeast (10-12g instant dry yeast)
250g Unsalted butter for lamination

Note that you may need to increase or decrease hydration to suit the flour you are using.

[Bennysbaked]

I made a mistake of the amount of fresh yeast! It's 25g. Sorry about that😬

[pepsicola]

Never seen a crossiant where the amount of layers are so visible. Really, well done. I've used a few recipes to make crossiants but I have to try this soon!

[scorpleeon]

The dough scream lol. I’m gonna make these before quarantine is over.

[manatahicrocombelambert]

I’m French and I’ve never found a video so good about croissants

[robertgreene]

STEPS:
1. Put all ingredients in mixing bowl, except for the butter.
2. DDT for dough is 24-26 C. If your kitchen is cold, your water temperature needs to be heated (ie. 40C) in order to reach the DDT. If your water temp is 40C, do not add yeast directly in the water.
3. If the initial dough temperature is very cold, the initial proofing time will be very long.
4. Add the soft butter when a shaggy mess forms after the dough ingredients are combined.
5. The surface of the dough won’t tear when you tuch the sides under.
6. Check the dough temperature with a thermometer.
7. Make the butter slab. Draw a 20cm x 18cm rectangle. Roll the butter into the rectangle. You can also use a zip lock bag to roll with butter. This can be made days in advance.
8. The dough should tripe in size. Degas and fold into a rectangle. This will give more strength to the dough.
9. Place the dough in the fridge to proof again overnight. The slow fermentation not only allows gluten to fully develop, but also gives a nice flavor.
10. Before we laminate, take the butter slab out of the fridge 20 minutes earlier. Roll it a few times until its malleable. The texture of the butter must be the same as the dough.
11. Once the dough has finished resting overnight, roll it twice as big as the butter slab, keeping it rectangular.
12. Perform a 3-4-3 folding process once the dough is 2x the butter size. Start with placing the butter slab in the middle, trim off 2 pieces of dough and place them on top of the butter. All sides of the dough should flush with butter like a perfect sandwich. That’s why you should keep your butter and dough rectangular at all times. Try to match the flaps. This prevents gaps of flour not having any butter!
13. Use bench flour to start rolling. Tap the dough first before rolling with the rolling pin. This helps the butter distribute more evenly.
14. Roll out the dough to about 60 cm lengthwise. We will be working in the landscape position (ie. Short side is up-down, long side is left-right).
15. First fold (double turn). Bring 1/3 of the dough in to meet the center from one side. From the other side, bring 2/3 of the dough in the center so both sides meet in the middle. Flatten out the dough and with a rolling pin and then close it in half right at the middle like a book.
16. Cut open the corners to release pressure (from the yeast).
17. We just stretch the dough one direction (ie length wise), now we stretch it in the opposite direction by recreating a 60cm rectangle (ie height wise). If you keep rolling the dough in the same direction, it will tear and resist. From the opposite direction, roll out the dough to 60cm again.
18. Second fold (single turn). Fold in 1/3 of the sides from both directions meeting in the middle. You should get even 1/3 sections. Allow the dough to rest in the fridge for one hour.
19. Take out of the fridge 5 minutes before rolling so the butter is not too hard. If you roll it straight away the butter layers will shatter.
20. Roll the dough to 4mm thick. 50cm x 35cm by rectangle.
21. Trim off all sides to get straight edge. Next portion 10cm width x 30cm in length triangle (isosceles triangle).
22. Roll the croissant dough upwards from the bottom of the triangle as the base.
23. Brush them with milk before proofing them.
24. Put croissants in a turned off oven, and place a tray of steaming water under to provide heat and humidity. Be careful! If the temperature is over 27C the butter inside croissants will melt! Proofing time should be about 2 hours depending on the temperature.
25. When the croissants are ready, they become bigger, the layers visibly separate slightly, and wobble nicely.
26. Brush them again with milk before baking, you can also use egg wash.
27. Bake at 190 C, fan forced for 20 minutes.
28. Transfer them to a wire rack to cool. Make sure they cool completely before slicing.

INGREDIENTS:
Dough:
500g Plain flour (11% protein)
50g Sugar
10g Good quality sea salt
250g Water
100g Soften butter ( At least 80% butterfat )
10g Dry yeast, or 30g fresh yeast

Butter Lamination:
250g Soft good quality butter for lamination
20cm x 18cm rectangle paper

[man.i.literally.failed]

2 days to make, & 2 seconds to eat

[sarahlim]

Hello! I made these today, and they are absolutely GORGEOUS. Mine came out almost exactly the same as the video, and I am pretty proud of them haha. So flakey and buttery, crunchy on the outside but soft in the middle.

I actually made this without a stand mixer, so I did everything by hand! It was quite a bit of hard work, but you get an arm workout :) (which you need after eating these 😂)

Temperature REALLY matters when making croissants. I was lucky enough to have almost the same temperatures as you did, so I could follow the recipe accordingly. However, if you live in a really hot country, or it’s summer, I would definitely recommend changing the amount of time the dough sits in the fridge and proofs for.

I used a mixture of bread and plain flour - my bread flour had 12% protein and my plain had around 9.5%, so I mixed them to get a good ratio of both.

What I really like about this recipe, is that you can see the layer of butter when you roll the dough out, and make sure it’s not melting into the dough/breaking. If you can see it melting/breaking, I would immediately stop and stick it in the fridge/leave it for another 5 minutes.

Also, I would recommend doing an egg wash instead of just milk. I baked them for 20 minutes with just milk, and they didn’t get much colour. So I ended up brushing on some egg wash then baking them for an extra 3-4 minutes to get them a nice golden brown.

THANK YOU so much for this absolutely amazing recipe! It is honestly such a great croissant recipe that is great for beginner-moderately experienced bakers. I hope you will continue to make these extremely informative videos!

Oh, and did I mention it was my second attempt at making croissants?! And that I am 14 years old? 🙃

If I can do it, you can too! :)

[DrGaryGreen]

A croissant recipe that works!
I've tried so many other recipes and nothing proofed right. This one did. Make these for success.

[vikz]

Two years late to the party I know, but this has to be one of the best recipes and techniques I have ever seen for making croissants. What a treasure.

[jesslangton]

THE DEFINED LAYERS!!! THE AIRINESS!!! 😩😩 what beautiful croissants!!!

[PanemRubinrotFreak]

I’m just 1 Minute into the Video but wanted to say that I love how you’re explaining everything! I love the science behind baking and there are not many channels who explain the baking process! Thank you so much!

[co_co_chantal]

I've been watching many of these croissant making videos to see variety of technique before I make my own, and I just want to say-- you're the first person I've seen bake the scrap dough and I really appreciate that! Scraps have so much potential for fun, it's such a shame to see others miss the opportunity 😋

[likelyladsss]

That "gotta go wash my dishes" earn my yea the hardest part of baking is washing that dammm dishes

[villerogladys]

I love the way u wiggled those proofed croissants. I was like mmmh slap those babies hahaha 😂🤣🤣

[SmartyPoohBear]

Wow...the amount of distinct layers seen on the outside is just absolutely stunning. o.o I've seen croissants that just look delicious, but these, these croissants look _beautiful_

[AntoinetteBonami]

As a French person, I want to extend my gratitude for sharing your recipe with us. Watching you bake those croissants made it seem so easy. Thank you!

[fronkentine]

5:56

May I just say how satisfying it was that you shook the dough to the tempo of the music?

[unknownj]

Even in Paris croissants don’t look that good I swear most are tasteless and flat. Great job👍

[owcadynamit]

This 'oh yeah' at 8th minute made my day! Never mastered crossaints even tho my baker career lasted 3 years! (Had to change job due to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome)
This recipe looks so good I might actually try one more time to make them!

[paramdrall]

This is some oscar deserving cinematography and Masterchef level of Perfection...❤️
Here's yo Crown.... King👑