7:30AM: After hours of kneading and rolling and folding and rolling again, I am at my final steps of the croissant making process. I have to roll the dough out one more time and cut it into triangles, then roll that into crescents. They only have to bake for 20 minutes with a little beaten egg brushed over top of them. I will be sure to include pictures.
Again, I am not an accomplished baker and I do know that I chose a very tough recipe to start out with. I figure if I can get this right (someday!), I will then move on to learning to make all kinds of pastries and breads, etc. With that goal accomplished I will someday be able to succeed in opening my bookstore /cafe/pastry shop, which is my most lofty aspiration. Although, I'm sure reality will set in and pastry making will be merely a hobby. One thing I have going for me is I was blessed with the talent to know how things are supposed to taste. I don't just love any food, I love good food.
8:10AM: Well, we ran into a tiny little snag, I read the entire recipe first but seemed to have forgotten that after they are rolled, they have to sit at room temp for two hours before being baked. So, looks like breakfast will be served at 11:00AM! Great! Oh, well, it will be a mid-morning snack.
2:57PM: Well, I think it's safe to say that my croissant have not been perfected quite yet, as you can see from the picture. I realized way too late, of course, that I had wrapped them the wrong way. Smart. They were fairly heavy and not very flaky at all. Still, they were edible. Neither my husband, nor I had to be rushed to the emergency room after eating them and he politely said that they were "just like Paris". He's either extremely naive or just very sweet. I choose to believe the latter.
My parents will be here next weekend for Christmas. I told my mother my plan to try to make them again Christmas Eve so we could have croissant on Christmas Morning. She said that maybe we should have a back up plan, just in case!
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