Chocolate + orange marmalade grilled croissant

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    2

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      20 min

Appears in
Chefs Eat Breakfast Too

By Darren Purchese

Published 2019

  • About

This flavour combo reminds me of Jaffa cakes from my childhood. Chocolate and orange go really well together, and the tang of the marmalade with the bitter chocolate mean this is not too sweet. The chocolate strips give a fantastic, almost liquid chocolate centre to the croissant.

Ingredients

  • 50 ml ( fl oz) water
  • 50 g (

Method

  1. Bring the water and sugar to the boil in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat, then use a microplane to finely grate the orange zest into the sugar syrup.
  2. Use a serrated knife to cut both croissants lengthways, and open them up. Use a pastry brush to dab some of the sugar syrup onto the cut insi