Tag Archive: croissant

Apr 12

Easy cinnamon croissants

Someday I'm going to make croissants from scratch, I promise. It's just that the croissant-making process sounds so complicated and time-consuming and, frankly, frightening. It's so much easier to buy them all baked and ready to eat, don't you think? This recipe for cinnamon croissants is sort of a compromise. The hard part — making …

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Jan 30

Caramel croissant bread pudding

That's vanilla and water in the center, milk on the left and heavy cream on the right.

It’s National Croissant Day! Remember that day I made croissant French toast with caramel apples? Well, I had a couple leftover croissants, so I went and made another croissant-centric dish: caramel croissant bread pudding. Bread pudding is yet another thing that I’d never eaten before, but Larissa’s pumpkin bread pudding looked tasty, so I figured …

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Jan 19

Croissant French toast with caramel apples

Cutting up the apples.

Since National Croissant Day (don’t you love these random food holidays?) is coming up on Jan. 30, I decided I’d try to bake some croissants for the blog. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Baking croissants? Yeah, I thought so too, until I pulled out my favorite baking book — “The Secrets of Baking” — and …

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