Croissants

Few pastries are as satisfying as a buttery croissant. When well made, with authentic croissant dough, a croissant is rich and buttery like good brioche and flaky and light like the best puff pastry. Real croissants—not the breadlike kind found at the corner deli, which are more often than not made with margarine—are made from a kind of layered dough made by folding butter between sheets of yeast-leavened bread dough. When you pull apart a croissant, it should unravel in spirals of flaky, b