Cheese croissant with Fromager d’Affinois Bûche d’Affinois

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1 hour and 30 minutes
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8 people

Ingredients

Croissant dough

  • 940g of bakers flour
  • 80g of caster sugar
  • 35g of milk powder
  • 25g of instant yeast
  • 25g of salt
  • 15g of butter
  • 480ml of water
  • 500g of butter sheet (from specialty baking stores)
  • Cold egg yolk, beaten, to brush

Ham cheese filling

Prosciutto filling

Tomato & Basil filling

Directions

  1. Place all the ingredients, apart from the butter sheet, into an electric mixer with a dough hook attachment. Start the mixer on slow speed till all ingredients are combined, then increase to medium speed and mix for 7-8 minutes. Don’t over-develop the dough, only mix until a small piece of dough just holds together when stretched very thin between your fingers.
  2. Place dough in the fridge overnight to rest, covered with plastic wrap.
  3. When ready to roll, bring the dough to the same temperature as the butter sheet. Flour a workbench and roll the dough into a 300mm x 450mm rectangle. Roll the butter square into a 300mm x 220mm rectangle, the same thickness as the dough.
  4. Place the rolled-out butter in the centre of the dough, then fold two edges of the pastry together over the butter to join at the centre.
  5. Lightly flour a benchtop and roll out the dough and butter towards the two open edges into a rectangle that is about 7-8mm thick. Fold dough once.
  6. Rest dough in the fridge for 1 hour.

Ham & Cheese croissant

  1. Cut dough into 7cm x 12cm rectangles.
  2. Layer with all the ham and Fromager d’Affinois Bûche d’Affinois cheese fillings at one short edge of the pastry, then roll once to enclose.
  3. Brush the pastry with egg wash and scatter with sesame seeds.
  4. Once baked, place 2 pickles on top.

Prosciutto croissant

  1. Cut the dough into 8cm x 10cm rectangles.
  2. Bake with the prosciutto and Fromager d’Affinois Bûche d’Affinois cheese filling and brush the pastry with egg wash.
  3. Once baked, place fig on top.

Tomato & Basil croissant

  1. Cut the dough into 3cm x 30cm strips.
  2. Wrap a piece of Fromager d’Affinois Bûche d’Affinois cheese in the pastry, rolling the pastry around to create a pinwheel.
  3. Brush with egg wash.
  4. When ready to cook, bake at 190°C fan-forced for 18-20 minutes until pastry is golden and puffed. Finish off with Tomato & Basil.

Recipe made by @annapolyviou

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