Croissants, Pain au Chocolat

(by pinoficara, France)

Ingredients :

Ingredients for CROISSANT RECIPE : DOUGH 1.5lb milk / 680g lait 1 tsp dry yeast / Cuillère à café levure boulangere 2 lbs flour / 900g farine 5 oz sugar / 150g sucre salt / sel --- 20oz butter / 600g beurre --- bittersweet chocolate / couverture --- EGG WASH 1 egg, 2 yolks / 1 oeuf, 2 jaunes water, eau

Execution :

CROISSANT RECIPE instructions : First Step: combine warm milk with yeast - set aside mix flour with salt and sugar add milk and stir with a wooden spoon enough to combine, do not overwork wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate for 8 hours Second Step Cut butter into 8 pieces, pound thin, refrigerate Roll half of the dough into a rectangle on a floured counter. Incorporate hal of the butter with one single turn and two double turns wrap in plastic, refrigerate overnight (8 hrs or more0 repeat with the second half of dough and butter Third Step Roll half of each package to form a rectangle 3mm thick. Cut triangles for croissants and rectangles for pain au chocolat. Form the croissants, brush with eggwash, let proof until risen, bake at 375F for 12 to 15 minutes.