croissant recipe anyone?

[Jensmominlaw]

So Jen is having a baby. Not any ordinary baby but my very first grandchild. For her baby shower in February, I plan to make a chicken pasta salad (GF of course) and want to serve homeade GF croissants plus a variety of GF muffins. I remember reading awhile back a post about someone asking who would be in their right mind to make these. Well, I have made the regular ones only once and they were awesome! And they were for someone very special. I don't make these for just anybody but I think THIS celebration deserves the best! So if you have a good recipe, can you let me know?
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~ Cindy

[aklap]

Hi Cindy,

If you've got the recipe for the NGF ones you made before...you should be able to sub out the flour. It may take a bit of tweaking, but should be do-able. I'm not a baker...so don't listen to me

http://forums.chef2chef.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=309763&an=0&page=3

http://www.clanthompson.com/res_books_globally.php3
In addition to her mouth-watering recipes, Nancy includes menu suggestions for bridal showers, Korean barbecue, Easter brunch, a Kids Slumber party and more. She is especially pleased with her recipe for flaky croissants.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[Jensmominlaw]

thanks for the referrals! I'll let you know how they turn out!
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~ Cindy

[The Edifying Conscience]

I have to say that I think croissants are the holy grail of gluten free baking. Having said that, I totally disagree with Al. I highly doubt that just subbing out NGF flour for GF will make light and flaky croissants. It's the gluten than makes the croissant light and airy. Without gluten you might come up with a substitute but it's not going to be a 'croissant.' I would suggest you start playing in the kitchen. If worst comes to worst then you can always make a dinner roll shaped like a croissant.

I just looked in the Rebecca Reilly book for a croissant recipe and there isn't one in it. I've seen one some place I just can't remember where. I'll look tonight when I have more time.

Sorry to be the bearer of undesirable information,
tec

[gfrach]

I have this recipe I haven't tried yet. I think the person I got it from got it from somewhere on the net:

50g g.f. white flour. (For chocolate croissants use 25g cocoa for 25g flour.) (1.7 oz about 1/2 cup)
1 teaspoon xanthan gum or an egg white
1/2 lb unsalted butter
pinch of salt
8 oz water and milk mixed luke warm
yeast packet
1 egg for egg wash

Method
A food processor makes dough really quickly! thats what I would use!

1. Preheat oven temperature to 400.

2. Sift g.f.flour into a bowl +xanthan gum, cut butter into small pieces, add a pinch of salt, yeast and with a pallet knife cut in water and milk. This makes a horrible sticky mess but turn onto a lightly floured table and carefully knead to make a cohesive dough.

3. Shape mixture into a rectangle and roll out to approximately 12inx8in. Fold over the top third, fold up the bottom third, seal each side with the side of your hand, then put into a plastic bag and chill for 30 minutes. Turn 90 degrees and roll again to another rectangle. Fold up bottom third and seal with the side of your hand. Chill as before for 30 minutes. Repeat two more times, chilling 30 minutes between each rolling. Return to plastic bag and refrigerate for an hour.

4. Remove from fridge and roll carefully into a big rectangle 24inx12in cut in half lengthways, divide each half into 12 triangles. Then from the widest edge of the triangle, roll up tightly and place in a crescent shape on a tray. Beat egg for egg wash and with care, egg wash croissant. Make sure you do not go over a cut edge with egg wash. This will stop them from rising properly if desired.

5. When frozen take off the tray and put into a plastic bag.

6. For use, remove from freezer the number required for breakfast, put onto baking tray and leave overnight. Put into a hot oven and cook for about 20 minutes until browned and risen


Rach

[aklap]

[The Edifying Conscience]

[aklap]

I know...I just didn't want Cindy to give up

Al - whose patiently waiting for some GF croissant's hehehee
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[The Edifying Conscience]

Great examples of trying! I especially love the Wright Bros and NASA connection. Did you just pull those out of your head or did you google? I would have had to google. Actually, I had to use the link to learn about Sir Edmund Hillary. Can you imagine being the workers you built the rail through the Rockies?

TEC who's shaking her head in amazement.

[aklap]

I've always had an interest in flight and space. I knew the dates of the Wright Brothers and space flight [I wanted to be an astronaut as a child. I now know my poor math skills would've grounded me]. I only googled to get the links. From 1st flight to the moon in that amount of time is staggering to me.

I thought Hillary climbed Everest, but had to google that to verify it.

I also like the author Stephen Ambrose and started reading his book on the TCRR, but sadly like most books, I only got 1/2 thru it. The amount of work to built that and the technology [or lack of], is amazing!! The Chinese were this thing's greatest resource! They worked extremely hard, didn't get into trouble, but yet were under appreciated. The Irish...they did like their drink... It really is an interesting book despite my lack of initiative to finish it.

Yeah - I tend to collect useless knowledge like that. And still...I can't remember to take out the garbage.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[ostrich]

[Jensmominlaw]

Oh boy, for a minute there I thought I had started a war! Phew! I am going to try them don't worry. The thing with making croissants is that they take all day to make. It's all that butter that you have to keep rolling between the dough that makes it flaky. oh I'm drooling just thinking about them! I think I'll pull out my trusty Good Housekeeping cookbook and look at that recipe again. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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~ Cindy

[aklap]

Oh no...no worries about starting a war

Good luck!!


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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[The Edifying Conscience]

This inquiring mind has been thinking of you and wants to know how the great croissant experiment is coming along. You mentioned that the shower is in Feb so you must be down to the wire.

[Deby's GF Bakery]

This post appealed to me because we are attempting a croissant. We have a dough that is stretchy enough to laminate. We got one batch rolled out with the butter in place but never got past that point. It's easy to get distracted around here

We have had more than a few recipes for a croissant handed to us, but none so far have worked. I've actually seen the one posted here. It comes out like a cresent shaped biscuit.

Perhaps it is true that a laminated dough is impossible with gf, but I'm still willing to try.
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Monica Poole