Chocolate-Filled Croissant Cubes

Name: Chocolate-Filled Croissant Cubes
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 14 min
Total time: 9 h 49 min
Yield: Makes 8–10 croissant cubes
Ingredients: 6 cups (1 ⅓ lb./600 g) all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons (⅓ oz./10 g) salt; ⅖ oz. (12 g) fresh (compressed) yeast; ¾ cup (200 ml) very cold water; 2 ⅘ sticks (11 ¼ oz./320 g) butter, well chilled; 3 oz. (85 g) bittersweet chocolate, 70 percent cocoa; Or 3 ⅓ oz. (95 g) bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa; Or 3 ⅓ oz. (95 g) bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa; Or 3 ⅓ oz. (95 g) bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa; 1 tablespoon (⅓ oz./10 g) cornstarch; 2 ½ tablespoons (1 oz./30 g) granulated sugar; 2 ½ tablespoons (1 oz./30 g) granulated sugar; 2 egg yolks; 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons (220 ml) whole milk; Scant ¼ cup (50 ml) whipping cream; 1 egg yolk (to brush the top of the croissants)

Preparation info

Makes
8–10
croissant cubes

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
10 hr

Appears in

Encyclopedia of Chocolate

By Frédéric Bau and École du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

Published 2017

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Ingredients

Croissant dough

6 cups (1 ⅓ lb./600 g) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons (⅓

Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Prepare the croissant dough. When the dough is ready, chill it for 1 hour before rolling it out.

In the meantime, prepare the chocolate pastry cream. Spread out three strips of pastry cream on a sheet of plastic wrap. They should each measure 11 × 2 ¾ in. and be ⅛ in. thick (28 cm × 7 cm, thickness 3 mm). Ch