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Sunday, January 10, 2010

It’s Not Complicated

Posted by Melanie at 15:02 0 comments Hot from the oven

I've been making croissants for years. I’m not daunted, anymore, by all the folding and rolling required for that wonderful flaky texture and refrigeration of the dough, necessary so the butter doesn’t melt.

In Meryl Streeps latest movie she works in a bakery coffee shop. Given her recent movies I wonder if she, really, knows how to cook? Anyhow In one scene, with Steve Martin, she makes croissants from scratch, seductively rolling chocolate up into each one.

In another one of my marathon kitchen baking blitzes, which included bagels, chocolate chip cookies and croissants I decided to put chocolate into some of the croissants. I used an organic baking chocolate called Vivani, available at Save On Foods or health food stores. I like it because the first ingredient is cocoa mass not sugar and it tastes fabulous.

Mnn Chocolate

I was unsure how much to use and worried about chocolate oozing all over the place. Silly me, next time I’m definitely using a lot more chocolate.

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Oh man, am I hungry now. And we have no croissants!

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