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CHOCOLATE CROISSANTS

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 From the moment I saw the recipe in delicious magazine know wanted to have a go. Most of the ingredients were in the larder apart from the chocolate batons. Decided Amazon was easiest option and duly ordered. A few days later they arrived. Not a small box, read, “didn’t read contents” for this, but a whopping 1.75kilos of chocolate batons. Not sure how many but at a rough guess I’ll need to produce in region of 500 croissants to use them all up 😂 May have to sell them from the kitchen window.  Anyway, on the day I had decided to start I assembled ingredients then read through the recipe. What I’d failed to pick up on was that this was not a fast food recipe. This was a Wednesday and following all the steps we could be tucking into them on Friday morning. I could see I was going to have to be very patient.  First stage completed. Dough now to rest overnight in fridge. As is a flattened slab of butter.  Next day.  Rolling out  and laminating the butter into the dough. Basically foldin