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Croissants Glaced With Honey & Orange Zest Syrup

One of our weekend rituals include a visit to Wolves café in Illovo - a less formal place with an amazing collection of coffee table books. We usually have our Sunday brunches there after a good walk in farmers market. It offers some of the best Mushroom raviolis, peri peri chutney sandwiches, freshly baked croissants and not to forget raspberry cupcakes.

This recipe of mine is inspired by the honey glazed croissants that we had few weeks back. The batch that I baked looks nothing like what we had but it’s an honest attempt of mine to make puff pâtisserie at home. I’m no pastry chef and this recipe made me realize that how precise and careful one should be when it comes to making pastries. But definitely tastes pretty decent and flaky (maybe beginner's luck!)







Ingredients

Unbleached cake flour 450 gm
Salted butter (room temperature) 150 gm
Powdered sugar 5 teaspoons
Milk 150 ml
Instant yeast 2 teaspoons
Salt 1 teaspoon
Honey 150 gm
Orange zest 7-8 teaspoons

Directions
  
For making the dough
• Shift flour, salt, and sugar together in a wide mouth bowl
• Add butter and yeast to the flour mixture. Beat well using an electric beater
• Gradually pour cold milk and form dough
• Wrap up the dough with cling wrap & let it rest for 30 minutes
Note: using butter at room temperature eases the process of making the dough but make sure that butter is not melted.

For making pat fe-yeah-the (layered dough)
• Roll the well rested dough into approximately 20cm long, 15cm wide and 1cm thick rectangle
• Brush some butter on the dough and fold it for a couple of times and roll
• Repeat this process for at least thrice

 For making croissants
• Cut the dough into a triangle shape
• Roll from the bottom to the top to form a croissant shape
• Place the croissants onto the greased baking tray
• Bake in the pre-heated oven at 170c until golden brown in color






Mix honey and orange zest nicely using a fork and heat it in the microwave for a minute. Drizzle some honey and orange zest mixture on hot croissants and enjoy it with hot cup of tea/coffee.  















Comments

  1. Woww wat a tempting croissants, absolutely droolworthy..

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  2. Love orange flavor and this croissant look delicious.

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  3. orange zest must have given such a nice taste,loved the recipe and the croissant...so yummy

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  4. This is a perfect beauty for your first attempt in making croissants Vandi! They look just so great, yum, and pleasing! Congratulations on getting it right!

    Now, a few questions...
    1) Can i make it in a Microwave?
    2) where do i get orange Zest?

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  5. even i made this 2 weeks before....but haven't posted it...looks super delicious and yummy...i love croissants

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  6. Whoo..they look awesome..buttery,flaky n perfect!

    US Masala

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  7. oh man that is a very tuff recipe for me...loved ur version with honey n orange , too good.

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  8. The pics are totally breathtaking n so delicious...outstanding recipe dear..

    Tasty Appetite

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