Okay, so I’m continuing on from last week’s tutorial on croissant dough and shaping croissants to bring you two alternative uses for it!
This is a guide for shaping chocolate croissants, and of course, I had to bring cinnamon into this whole thing somewhere so I’ve also got a guide on shaping Cinnamon-Raisin Danish Swirls here.
The croissant dough is cut into four pieces, the instructions for this recipe only uses one of those pieces ( i.e. one quarter of the entire recipe), meaning you can make loads of different things from making just one batch of dough, yay!
You will need:
- 1 piece of croissant dough (i.e. 1/4 of the whole recipe); the step-by-step tutorial for the dough can be found here
- 1/2 cup (100 g) semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
To shape the Chocolate Croissants (aka pains au chocolat)
- Remove 1 piece of dough from the fridge, unwrap it and roll out on a lightly floured surface into a 18″ x 5″ rectangle
- Cut the dough horizontally in half. Then cut the dough vertically into fourths, making 8 rectangles.
- Sprinkle 1 tbsp of semisweet chocolate chips (or chopped chocolate) in a line down a short edge of each rectangle.
- Starting at the short edge, roll up into logs.
- Place seam side down onto a lined cookie tray, 2″ apart.
Bake:
Cover loosely with cling film and leave to rise in a cool place for around 2-3 hours ( if you’re making these the night before, you can actually shape them and leave them to rise in the fridge overnight instead).
Once ready to bake, preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (22o degrees C) . Brush the chocolate croissants with beaten egg using a pastry brush and put into the oven. Immediately lower the temperature to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C), and bake for 10 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and bake for a further 8-10 minutes until well browned and puffy.
Let cool on a wire rack. Enjoy your 2 to I-literally-don’t-know-how-long-these-took-to-make-any-more day labour of love.
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My craving for sweets 24/7 seemed to vanish with the holidays (and possibly also with the realization that I ate too many sweets…), but between this and the danishes, it’s returning!
Chocolate croissants always bring back memories of being in France when I was 16. It was a high school trip to France and Spain, so we weren’t there for too long — just enough time to reinforce the obnoxious teenage American tourist stereotype! But that was the first time I ever tried croissants and crepes, and I always made sure to grab a chocolate croissant from the bakery near our hotel for the five or so days we were there. (:
AHAHA, I got that too! I think it was all the cookies and tiramisu I ate that gave me a sugar overload!
Oooh, that sounds awesome! I think France is deffo a memory-creator: I’ve actually only been there twice I think, but I remember how I ended up eating croissants dipped in a bowl (they have bowls of it, not just mugs) of hot chocolate for breakfast once
These look so amazing! Also, this is the first time I’ve seen GIFs used for a recipe O: super cool
I’ll definitely be making these sometime soon~
thanks!
I like to think of myself as the pioneer of this .gif recipe thing, but I’m probably really not haha
Wow, this recipe is great… I’ve always had a little bit of trouble with croissant pastry (partly through lack of practice) but I will definitely give your tutorial/recipe a go! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!! I’m glad you like it
Oh my gosh do these look good! Great tutorial too. I ate a couple of these in France and haven’t stopped thinking about them since!
yeah, croissants have that effect I think; One is never enough!
I just loved this recipe. Beautiful pictures and detailed recipe makes all your posts so special!
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thank you!
Lovely, that would be so yummy along with eggs for breakfast!
they are SO good for breakfast :’)
Beautiful bake on the pain au chocolats!
thanks Katherine!!
These look really fun to make and even more fun to eat. I featured them on my Friday Five bread over @Feed Your Soul – http://chefpeterskitchen.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-friday-five-bread-edition.html
thanks for the feature!
Pain au chocolat is my favourite pastry! Will try the croissant dough making as soon as I’m home for holidays – thank you so much and again, LOVE YOUR GIFS!!!
These look scrumptious! I don’t know why but it had never occurred to me to make them at home. I can’t wait to feel like a triumphant little parisienne next Saturday morning!
And Then The Doorbell Rang
These are amazing and so simple to make (apart from being really time consuming!) My whole family loved them, I will make these again and again. Thanks so much for sharing.
Paige
PS I loved the GIFs they really made this recipe so simple to follow.
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