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Plain Butter Croissant

Built around bread flour and cold milk -- the method starts by mixing the flour.

Plain Butter Croissant
Prep
5 min
Cook
15 min
Total
20 min
Serves
4
Level
Advanced
Rating
★ 4.8

Anchored by bread flour, cold milk and sugar, this bakery dish starts by mixing the flour and comes together in about 20 minutes -- the kind of advanced recipe that earns a permanent spot in the rotation.

Ready in 20 minutes -- genuinely doable on a weeknight.

A more involved technique that rewards patience with real depth of flavor.

Built around bread flour, so the flavor comes from real ingredients, not a spice packet.

Ingredients

  • 4 cups bread flour
  • 1 1/4 cups cold milk
  • plus 5 more ingredients

Method

1

Mix the flour, milk, sugar, yeast, and salt into a soft dough, then chill it flat 1 hour.

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