Easiest Way to Make Homemade Pain au Chocolat

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Extra flaky and buttery homemade chocolate croissants (Pain au Chocolat) are incredible warm from the oven. Recreate this French bakery classic at home with this recipe and video tutorial! Here's a quick and easy recipe for pain au chocolat (chocolate croissants). To finish your pain au chocolat: Remove the dough from the refrigerator, cut it in half and return one half to the refrigerator.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pain au chocolat using 13 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pain au Chocolat:

1. Prepare For dough
2. Prepare flour
3. Prepare sugar
4. Take yeast
5. Make ready milk
6. Prepare vanilla
7. Prepare salt
8. Take honey
9. Prepare For paste
10. Take margarine
11. Prepare flour
12. Prepare For filling
13. Get individual dark/milk chocolates

Before starting this Pain au Chocolat recipe, make sure you have organised all the necessary ingredients. Tip the flour in the stand mixer recipient. Pain au chocolat is a classic French pastry that's often sold alongside croissants and is delicious when eaten hot. To make either traditional pain au chocolat or a brioche/hazelnut variant.

Steps to make Pain au Chocolat:

1. For dough: combine all ingredients on table and knead until elastic and homogeneous.
2. For paste: combine margarine with flour and form a rectangle. Save.
3. To work on dough, you need a cool place, no heat in the kitchen and nothing cooking nor oven on.
4. Roll dough on a lightly floured surface in the form of a cross and place the paste in the middle. Fold each extremity over the spread block to form a kind of package.
5. With a rollin pin press down lightly on the "package". After procede to roll dough in one direction to form a rectangle.
6. Fold the extremity opposite to you and then the one on your side to form another package. (Only fold, dont roll)
7. Turn package 90° and repeat step 4 and 5. This is the second folding. Place package in the fridge for 20 minutes.
8. Repeat steps 5, 6 and 7. This would complete 4 folds. Place in fridge another 20 minutes.
9. For the third time, repeat steps 5, 6, and 7. This would make 6 folds.
10. After the last 20 minutes, remove dough from fridge, roll dough in 1/2cm of thickness. Cut and roll 24 rectangles of around 10 by 6 cms.
11. Place a chocolate in the middle of each rectangle then let rectangles cool for about 2 hours.
12. Preheat oven on 200°C or 392°F
13. Remove from fridge and roll each rectangle with chocolate in the middle.
14. Paint each rectangle with a mixture of 1 whisked egg.
15. Bake until lightly tanned.

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