Croissant

pastry · French · layered · breakfast

Crescent shape. Croissants are named for their distinctive crescent moon shape. The curved form makes them fun to hold and eat!

Laminated dough. Croissants are made with special laminated dough, which means butter and dough are folded together many times. This creates all those flaky, crispy layers.

Austrian origins. Despite being famous in France, croissants actually come from Austria and were inspired by pastries eaten there centuries ago.

Takes time. Making croissants is a labor of love that takes hours because the dough needs rest time between folds to develop all those perfect layers.

Bread meets pastry. Croissants are special because they're somewhere between bread and puff pastry, they have yeast like bread but have buttery, flaky layers like a fancy pastry.