Freshly baked croissants are hard to resist when their buttery aroma wafts from the bakery shelf. But while many people enjoy eating these pastry delights, they are not often made from scratch. This is partly due to their complexity, with several layers of delicate dough required to form the airy consistency, but also because many recipes are longwinded.
Chef Gordon Ramsay himself says that the French way is to make the dough 24 hours before, but for those who don't have that much time to spare, a food blogger has shared an easy shortcut. On YouTube, Liza's Delicious Recipes is a cooking content creator who claims to have found "the easiest way to make croissants." Liza's method takes around two hours, including one hour for the dough to chill, and she says the results are "light, airy, golden, flaky and buttery croissants".
Ingredients 80-90ml water 10g sugar 8g dried yeast or instant yeast 50ml warm milk (50 ml) 4g salt 250g flour 200g soft butter Take a large mixing bowl, measure your water, and then add it to the bowl. Add the sugar and yeast and mix into the water. Leave to sit for five to 10 minutes for the yeast to get to work, then return to the bowl and gently stir the thickened mixture.
Add the milk and mix well to combine before adding the salt. Stir again, then measure the flour and add it to the bowl. Use your hands to work the flour into the mixture and form a dough, kneading as you go.
It will be very sticky at this point, but persevere, and the smooth dough wi.
