French Pastry - Guide for the creation of Croissants

Simple and complete guide to making perfect Croissants at home, completely by hand, without a mixer

This course is for all those people who want to learn how to make fairly simple but very delicious leavened desserts.

What you’ll learn

Create a Croissant dough.
Create the butter for the flaking.
Learn the lamination technique.
How to cut and form Croissants.
How to make Croissants rise perfectly.
How to cook Croissants.
Creation of the glaze to polish the Croissants.

Course Content

Introduzione –> 16 lectures • 1hr 3min.

Requirements

This course is for all those people who want to learn how to make fairly simple but very delicious leavened desserts.

In this course you will find all the aspects and the phases of rolling and cooking a croissant, explained in a simple and concise way, in order to facilitate the learning of these techniques.

We will make a croissant dough from scratch without using kneading machines or machinery and we will follow together the simple step-by-step instructions of the whole process.

I will explain you how to choose ingredients and I will show you how to use them correctly.

I will guide you step by step in the realization of a perfectly hand-rolled dough, only using a rolling pin, and we will see how to cut, form the croissants and how to make them rise correctly. I will also guide you in finding the right setting for your oven to obtain an optimal cooking level of the croissants.

Inside the course, you will also find the recipe for making egg-wash (a compound obtained by mixing together egg yolk and milk), which will be used to give a more burnished color to our croissant and allow a correct leavening in the oven. Not only that, you will also find the icing recipe, made up of water and sugar, which will be used to polish and give a sweeter touch to the finished product.

By taking this course you will learn: