Weekend baking project. Italian croissants
Weekend baking project. Italian croissants
We could call these buttery crescents Italian croissants, but you’ll realize how different they are from the first bite.
We can finally sit at a table of our favourite café to enjoy a proper breakfast. Along with an espresso, or a macchiato, what I was really missing was a proper cornetto.
We could call these buttery crescents Italian croissants, but you’ll realize how different they are from the first bite.
Although both are flaky, layered pastries, made with a laminated dough, Italian cornetti have more sugar in the dough, along with eggs, vanilla seeds, and orange peel. These unique ingredients make cornetti sweeter, softer, slightly denser, and more aromatic.
Thus, although you could potentially pair a croissant with ham and cheese, you could not do the same with a cornetto. The sweet pastry is better enjoyed plain, simply dusted with icing sugar, or filled with pastry cream, jam, or a chocolate spread.
Today I’m sharing one of the most loved articles on the blog, from 2013, all about the Italian breakfast and my beloved cornetti.
Italian croissants
This is an easy recipe to bake at home the same cornetti you might get in an Italian café, with their shiny surface, not too sweet nor too buttery.
Should they be too many for you to have in one go, you can decide to bake all of them immediately and freeze the leftovers once baked. Otherwise, you can bake just a few cornetti and freeze the rest immediately after shaping them.
If you freeze them once baked, you can remove them from the freezer and warm them in a hot oven just before breakfast: by doing this, they will thaw immediately and in a few minutes, you will get hot cornetti.
If you prefer to freeze them immediately after shaping them, remove them from the freezer the night before, and arrange them, well-spaced, on an oven tray lined with parchment paper to raise. In the morning, bake them as in the following recipe.
Find the recipe for these Italian croissants on the blog.
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