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Croissants

Ingredients

  • 300 g Strong white flour
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 30 g Caster sugar
  • 2 ½ tsp Dried yeast
  • 100 ml Warm water
  • 250 g Butter
  • Jam for serving

Instructions

  • To make the dough mix together the strong white flour, salt, caster sugar, dried yeast and warm water. Knead it for 10 minutes, then put it into a bowl covered with cling film and chill it in the fridge for 1 hour
  • Bash up and flatten the butter between two sheets of greaseproof paper using a rolling pin
  • Roll out the pastry into a long rectangle and place the flattened butter in the middle
  • Fold the pastry around the butter like an envelope, wrap it in cling film and chill in the fridge for 1 hour. Do this twice more, then leave in the fridge overnight
  • The next day, pre-heat your oven to 220C/425F/Gas Mark 7
  • Cut the dough in half. Roll out the first half of the dough into a long rectangle. Cut it into three squares, then each square into triangles making 6 triangles. Do the same with the second half of dough
  • Roll up the triangles and lay onto a lined baking tray
  • Brush them with beaten egg, then bake for 10 minutes, then turn the oven down to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5 and bake for a further 5 minutes