How to Bake Croissants:

To bake croissants I followed this recipe.

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup warm milk
2. 1 & 3/4 cups all-purpose flour or bread flour
3. 1/2 tsp salt
4. 11 tablespoons butter, frozen
5. 4 tbsp sugar
6. 2 tsp  dry yeast
7. Chocolate chips or any chocolate
8. 1 egg yolk beaten or you can use milk for glaze

Instructions:

1. Put Butter (I am using nurpur) in freezer for minimum 3 hours, or overnight as well.
2. Warm Milk
3. In a bowl add flour, salt, sugar and yeast and whisk to combine. Note don’t add salt and yeast over each other, add them on different sides of bowl.
4. Now grate the butter add into the flour mixture and stir.
5. Add milk, use your hand and combine the pastry together gently to make dough.
6. It will be soft now so wrap the dough in a clingfilm and put it in the fridge for 2 hours. You can refrigerate it for up to 3 days or freeze to use at a later day.
7. Now remove from the fridge, lightly dust your rolling pin and work top with flour.
8. Roll out to a rectangle
9. Fold the sides into the middle and make it like a square shape.
10. Repeat rolling and folding 3 times.
11. In last step roll the dough again and make it at least 4mm thick.
12. Now to make triangles: cut the dough about 12inches long and 3 inches in at the base.
13. Cut a small slit in the center of each triangle base
14. Lastly stretch the corners and wrap chocolate at middle of the wide end and roll up.

  15. Repeat with the rest of triangles and put them into tray apart from each other.

  16. Cover them with cling film and let them rise for 2 to 3 hours at room temperature.

  17. Now Brush the croissant with the egg

Preheat oven 230C and bake for 10mins and then reduce temperature to 190C and bake for 5 more minutes until its golden brown.