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๐Ÿž SATURDAY BAKE-ALONG RECAP: CROISSANT DAY (Week 25)
We picked the one bake that hates heat the most, on the hottest holiday weekend of the year, and we did it anyway. Two working threads, 1,800-plus comments, first-timers pulling their first croissants at nightfall, and a whole room holding each other up through a heat dome. Ann Snow's dough fought her from 6:12am to dark and she still got them out of the oven. That's the whole story. Full recap is live: https://still-orbit-xf2s.here.now/ This week we featured: @Ann Snow @Sandy Chong @Cheryl Odden @Mauvette Bailey @Maureen Kilbride @Colleen Vergara @Linda Glantz @Barb Kratzmann @Deborah Karaban @Judy Lyle @Candi Brown-McGriff f @Mary Nunaley @Stacey Avraham @Heather Lattanzio @Melissa Molaison @Susie Kendall @Michele Nilson @Donna Angelo @Pat Van Schalkwyk @Jenny Rader-Bakos @Ehsan Omara @Michel Jodoin @Candy Barnes @Jill Hart @Ruby Dack @Jen Dolan @Lisa D @Dusty Commons @Victoria Merriwether @Pam Cote @Travis Crawford @Jana Hassett @JoAnn Amato @Angela Sides-McKay @Tammi Thurston @Tamsin Boshoff @Annette Mitchell @Rhonda Talamo @Linda Gregory @Gareth Parkes @Kathee Judd @Timothy McQuaid @Robert Caldas
๐Ÿž SATURDAY BAKE-ALONG RECAP: CROISSANT DAY (Week 25)
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ SATURDAY BAKE-ALONG: CROISSANT DAY ๐Ÿฅ๐ŸŽ†
Well, here we are. Bake day. And it landed on the Fourth of July, so letโ€™s make something beautiful today. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Most of you have your dough or your butter blocks resting in the fridge right now, which means the hard part is behind you. Todayโ€™s the payoff. We shape, we proof, we bake. Hereโ€™s the game plan: ๐Ÿฅ Pull your dough, roll it out long, cut your triangles, and shape โณ Proof until puffy and jiggly. This is the make-or-break step, so donโ€™t rush it. French folks, youโ€™re looking at a couple hours. Sourdough, yours runs longer, 3 to 5, so be patient with it. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Egg wash, then bake to a deep mahogany. Pale is underbaked. Let that color build. Now, two things about the heat. ๐ŸŽ‡ First, the real one. This heat wave across the country is dangerous, not just uncomfortable. Drink your water, stay cool, and check on the older folks and neighbors around you. Your bread can wait. You come first. Take care of yourselves out there. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Second, that same heat is sitting in your kitchen. Your final proof has to stay under 78F or the butter melts and weeps out before the croissants ever hit the oven. Find the coolest room in the house. If your kitchenโ€™s running warm, the fridge is still your friend, use it to hold the proof steady. Keep a close eye today, because in this heat they can over-proof faster than youโ€™d think. This thread is home base all day. ๐ŸŽ† Post your progress right here. Your shaped croissants, your proof, your first tray out of the oven, your crumb shots when you cut in. And if you hit a snag, butter leaking, dough fighting you, proof looking off, drop it in the comments and Iโ€™ll walk you through it. Iโ€™m around all day. Letโ€™s bake, everybody. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿฅ Perfection is not required. Progress is. Henry โญ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ SATURDAY BAKE-ALONG: CROISSANT DAY ๐Ÿฅ๐ŸŽ†
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This Saturday's Bake-Along is CROISSANTS. ๐Ÿฅ
๐Ÿฅโœจ This Weekend We Laminate โœจ๐Ÿฅ 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. ๐Ÿงˆ 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. ๐Ÿฅฎ 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. ๐Ÿฆ“ 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. โœจ Croissants are simply all three of those skills coming together. ๐Ÿฅ Butter control from brioche. ๐Ÿฅ Cold butter creating layers from babka. ๐Ÿฅ Fold-and-roll technique from zebra bread. You're not starting from scratch. You're putting together things you already know. โค๏ธ We're gonna go slow, one fold at a time, and I'll walk you through every single step. ๐Ÿ›’ Before Saturday, gather a few things: ๐Ÿงˆ Good butter. The higher the butterfat, the better. European-style if you can find it. ๐ŸŒก๏ธ A cool kitchen, if you've got one... and a little patience. โš–๏ธ 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.
This Saturday's Bake-Along is CROISSANTS. ๐Ÿฅ
My Pullman arrived!
New Pullman arrived today! Good deal on Amazon. I had no long pans and saw Henry modeling his so thought I should have one for my bakes. This is a very nice champagne color and looks like it will do the job just fine.
My Pullman arrived!
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Let me show you guys whatโ€™s going on in the room next-door โ€œ From Oven to Marketโ€
Remember if you joined this week, youโ€™ll have membership FREE for life. That door closes in a few days. Click here: https://www.skool.com/from-oven-to-market/about What a real market table looks like This is @Kim Cochranโ€™s setup from Royal Delights this past Saturday. I want to walk through it, because sheโ€™s doing almost everything right and thereโ€™s a lot here to learn from. Start with the shape. Most bakers set up one long table and stand behind it like a cashier. That table becomes a wall. Kim went with a U, and that horseshoe pulls people into her space. They slow down, they step in, and once theyโ€™re inside theyโ€™re browsing instead of walking past. Her cloths drop all the way to the floor and they match. Thatโ€™s what separates a business from a bake sale. Nobody sees the totes and the backup bins underneath. Itโ€™s clean and itโ€™s finished. Her branding repeats. The Royal Delights logo is on both runners and on her signage, same mark every time. When a customer sees the name three times before theyโ€™ve said a word, she stops reading as somebodyโ€™s mom selling cookies and starts reading as a bakery. The product is tiered. Sheโ€™s using risers to build height, so everything climbs instead of lying flat. A full, stacked table tells the customer other folks have been buying and thereโ€™s plenty to go around. A sparse table says the opposite. Prices are out where people can see them. A lot of customers will walk rather than ask what something costs. Kim took that friction away. One color story, pink and white, right down to the cooler. Even the cold items that have to stay cold got worked into the look instead of fighting it. And her chairโ€™s off to the side, so she can step out and greet somebody instead of being walled in. She also showed up in the rain. Thatโ€™s its own kind of marketing. When people learn youโ€™re there every Saturday no matter the weather, you become the stop they plan around.
Let me show you guys whatโ€™s going on in the room next-door โ€œ From Oven to Marketโ€
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