🥐✨ This Weekend We Laminate ✨🥐 Alright, you all asked for it... so we're doing it. Now before anybody panics, I want you to think about where you've already been. This isn't some giant leap. It's simply the next step on a staircase you've already been climbing. 🧈 Remember Brioche Week? That's where you learned to handle butter. Adding it one piece at a time. Watching for the break. Keeping it cool so it works with the dough instead of against it. That was your foundation. 🥮 Then came Babka. You learned that cold, firm butter holds its shape, while warm butter melts into the dough and ruins your layers. Classic Sourdough Croissant: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/sourdough-croissants Yeasted Croissant: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/classic-french-croissants Keep the butter cold. Keep the layers distinct. Sound familiar? That's lamination in plain clothes. 🦓 Then there was Zebra Bread. Stack. Fold. Roll. Repeat. Every fold multiplied the layers. Chill before you roll. Go easy on the flour. Roll it with confidence. You've already done those movements with your own hands. ✨ Croissants are simply all three of those skills coming together. 🥐 Butter control from brioche. 🥐 Cold butter creating layers from babka. 🥐 Fold-and-roll technique from zebra bread. You're not starting from scratch. You're putting together things you already know. ❤️ We're gonna go slow, one fold at a time, and I'll walk you through every single step. 🛒 Before Saturday, gather a few things: 🧈 Good butter. The higher the butterfat, the better. European-style if you can find it. 🌡️ A cool kitchen, if you've got one... and a little patience. ⚖️ Your digital scale, because we're weighing everything. Bring your questions. Bring your nerves. Bring your butter. By Saturday afternoon you'll be holding something flaky, buttery, and golden that you made with your own two hands.

When it’s time to bake the sourdough if I don’t score deep enough will the inside be more dense?

The Easter Bake-Along threads hit 1,136 check-ins this past week with more than 600 yesterday alone. That's a community record. I am going through the threads now for our weekly recap. You showed up. The bunny breads, the hot cross buns, the braided loaves, the holiday tables, all of it. Whether your bake came out exactly the way you planned or whether it surprised you in ways you didn't expect, you showed up and you baked. Here's the thing about holiday baking: the people at your table are not judging your crumb. They're tasting something you made, and they know the difference. That bread, even if it didn't open perfectly on the score, even if the bottom was darker than you wanted, still meant something to someone today. That's not nothing. That's actually everything. One more thing: if you had a rough bake yesterday, come back to the thread and tell me what happened. Not to commiserate. To troubleshoot. We'll figure out what went sideways and fix it for next time. Happy Easter to everyone. Whatever your table looked like today, I hope it was full. -- Henry⭐🔥 Show me your Easter table. Drop your photos below.

It’s bake day. And this one means something. This is one of those weekends where bread isn’t just bread. It’s tradition. It’s memory. It’s the thing your grandmother made that you’re now making for your own family. That matters. Whether you’re baking: 🐰 Sculpted Easter bunny bread 🍞 Enriched Easter loaf ✝️ Hot cross buns 🌿 Babka, Tsoureki, Colomba ✡️ Something beautiful for your Passover table 🥖 Or just the bread your family expects to see this time of year We want to see it. All of it. Not sure what to make? Head to the Recipe Pantry at pantry.bakinggreatbread.com and search Easter. Everything is right there waiting for you. And remember, today isn’t limited to those recipes. Anything you’re baking for your holiday table is fair game. Drop your photos, your questions, your works in progress, and your finished loaves right here in this thread. Check in throughout the day. This is what Saturdays are for. Happy Easter to everyone celebrating. 🐣✝️ Chag Sameach to those observing Passover. ✡️🕍 Whatever your table looks like today, I hope it’s full and it’s warm and it smells incredible. Now let’s bake. 🔥 Perfection is not required. Progress is. Henry ⭐🔥

We've got two Easter Bunny bakes on the table and you pick the one that fits where you are right now. 🌷 Option 1 is the Easter Bunny Bread. 🐇 Soft, enriched dough with milk, butter, and eggs. You can bake it as one big centerpiece loaf or divide it into 8 individual bunny rolls. There's a yeasted version and a sourdough version in the pantry, so pick your path. 🥚 This one is accessible, festive, and your family is going to love it. Option 2 is the Sculpted Easter Bunny Bread. 🐰 This is the one I let slip earlier when I was in the middle of building it. Lean 65% hydration dough, Dutch oven bake, cold overnight proof. One boule. Every piece of the bunny comes from that single loaf. 🌸 It's more of a project and the shaping takes confidence, but the result is something else. Both recipes are in the pantry right now 👇 🐇 Enriched Easter Bunny (yeasted + sourdough): https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/easter-bunny-bread 🐰 Sculpted Easter Bunny Bread: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/sculpted-easter-bunny-bread Drop below which one you're doing Saturday. 🥚 I'll be in the thread all day. Perfection is not required. Progress is. 🌷 Take a look at all three Henry ⭐🔥