If you saw the movie, "It's Complicated", then you might remember the scene that inspired my friend Monica to ask our little baking club to try Chocolate Croissants. (Coincidentally, Croissants just happen to be this month's Daring Bakers challenge.)
If you didn't see the movie, it goes something like this: the owner of a gorgeous bakery pops into the silent bakery late at night after shmoozing with her handsome new (boy)friend over dinner and drinks. They casually decide to make croissants. It is simple and sexy, and apparently done sans mess. Apparently, it only takes about 10 minutes.
Ha! I don't think so. Maybe in the movies it's short and sweet, but in real life, it is just a tiny bit more complicated (harhar). You might even say a labor of love (again with the harhar).
But the results are just as decadent (and sexy) as in the movies.
They are fantastic, which they well should be because it's a major effort. Although, to be fair, they're not hard, just time consuming.
We decided to make ours chocolate, in keeping with the movie theme. We tried rolling rectangle as well as triangle shaped pieces of dough. Even though the triangles looked prettier when baked, the chocolate to croissant ratio was better with the rectangles... the pointy little ends were skimpy on chocolate.
Thanks so much to Sarah for a great pick this month. (And now for the required blurb----> The Daring Bakers go retro this month! Thanks to one of our very talented non-blogging members, Sarah, the Daring Bakers were challenged to make Croissants using a recipe from the Queen of French Cooking, none other than Julia Child!)
For the recipe, I'm going to pass you along you mamaliga, who's got the recipe and some really fantastic how-to pictures as well. Here you go ---> click here for the recipe.
8 comments:
Great job on this challenge lovely looking croissant. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Ha ha, I do remember that scene. A little artistic licence me thinks.
Great post, and well done on your croissants.
so beautiful and amaizing job!!kouky
I love that scene in "It's Complicated" and in fact, wrote about it on my September challenge post. These look very tasty. Thanks for sharing!
I never saw the movie, but that sounds funny (though I am sure that the filmmakers didn't intend humor with that...). :) Your chocolate croissants look outstanding, and I wish I could have one right about now! Wonderful job.
Great looking croissants with my favorite thing inside!
Fab job - the chocolate croissants look delicious - yum!
Hee, 10 minutes this process was not! Your croissants look fabulous, despite taking longer than 10 minutes!
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