Description
Learn how to make delicious Pain au chocolat (chocolate croissants) at home with this detailed recipe, including step-by-step instructions for creating the perfect laminated dough and filling it with chocolate batons. Enjoy these flaky, buttery pastries as a special treat for breakfast or brunch.
Ingredients
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Détrempe
- 85 g milk (1/3 cup, lukewarm)
- 60 g water (1/4 cup, lukewarm)
- 5 g active dry yeast (about 1 1/2 tsp)
- 5 g honey (1 tsp)
- 25 g butter (1 1/2 tbsp, melted and cooled, or softened)
- 20 g white sugar (generous 1 1/2 tbsp)
- 250 g AP flour (2 cups, spooned and leveled)
- 5 g salt (about 1 tsp)
Tourrage and filling
Instructions
- Détrempe (the dough) – Dissolve honey in lukewarm milk, whisk in yeast, then add remaining ingredients, mix into a dough, knead, shape into a rectangle, chill overnight.
- Tourrage (butter block) – Flatten butter, enclose in parchment, chill.
- Enclosing the butter – Condition butter, place on dough, fold dough over butter, chill.
- First lamination – double fold – Roll out dough, fold, chill.
- Second lamination – single fold – Roll out dough, fold, chill.
- Sheeting the dough – Roll out dough, rest, roll again.
- Cutting the dough – Cut into rectangles.
- Rolling up the croissant + proofing – Place chocolate batons on dough, roll, proof until doubled.
- Baking the chocolate croissants – Brush with egg wash, bake at 375°F for 20-30 minutes.
Notes
- Read the recipe carefully for precise measurements.
- There are different methods for enclosing the dough.
- Keep dough pliable and cold throughout the process.
- Optimal working temperature for dough is 10-15°C / 50-60°F.
- Wrap and chill dough if it gets too soft or elastic.
- Double the recipe by adjusting measurements and timelines accordingly.
- Reusing parchment paper and plastic wrap can reduce wastage.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 croissant
- Calories: Approximately 350 kcal per croissant
- Sugar: Approximately 10g
- Sodium: Approximately 300mg
- Fat: Approximately 20g
- Saturated Fat: Approximately 12g
- Unsaturated Fat: Approximately 8g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: Approximately 35g
- Fiber: Approximately 2g
- Protein: Approximately 5g
- Cholesterol: Approximately 60mg
