Croissant Dough

There are few pastries more satisfying to make at home than croissants. The dough is made much like puff pastry with the butter sealed in the dough and the packet rolled out and folded over itself to make layers. Unlike puff pastry the dough for croissants also contains yeast, which helps it rise and gives it its delicate flakiness.

You can’t be quite as leisurely when making croissant dough as when making puff pastry because if the dough is out too long, the yeast will overproof an