Homemade Chocolate Croissants

A croissant is a French pastry from brioche dough & a popular breakfast pastry. In addition to the classic croissants you can find them piquantly baked with cheese and/or ham or offered as a sweet variant with chocolate or nougat filling.

In today’s post I show you how to bake simple & easy Homemade Chocolate Croissants at home. Have fun baking!




Homemade: Homemade Chocolate Croissants
Difficulty: Easy – Medium
Preparation Time: 2 hours & 30 minutes
Our Recipe rating:
5von5

Homemade Chocolate Croissants
Homemade Chocolate Croissants
Homemade Chocolate Croissants
Homemade Chocolate Croissants

Ingredients for about 8 Homemade Chocolate Croissants:

  • 500 grams of flour
  • 300 milliliters lukewarm milk
  • 50 grams sugar
  • 200 grams soft butter
  • 1 bar of dark chocolate
  • ½ cube of yeast
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg + a sip milk for brushing
  • Additional flour for the countertop

Required kitchen gadgets, helper & preparations:

  • High vessel to stir together the yeast-milk-mixture
  • Whisk
  • Mixing bowl
  • Mixer/Kitchen machine
  • Rolling pin
  • Cutting board
  • Kitchen towel
  • Brush
  • Small cup to stir together egg & milk
  • Pizza cutter or knife
  • Baking tray + baking paper
  • Wire rack

Instructions for the Homemade Chocolate Croissants:




Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 1Crumble ½ cube of fresh yeast into a high container & add 50 grams sugar along with 300 milliliters lukewarm milk…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 2…stir together with a whisk until sugar & yeast have completely dissolved…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 3…give the yeast-milk-mixture along with 500 grams flour & a teaspoon salt into a mixing bowl…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 4…& knead all ingredients with a kitchen machine for 4 – 5 minutes until smooth, the dough should be completely detached from the bowl wall, but still sticky…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 5…thouroughly knead the dough with your hands on a slightly floured working top for 1 – 2 minutes…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 6…& form a ball…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 7…next, with a knife cut the dough into 8 equal sized pieces…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 8…then form each dough piece into small balls…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 9…and with a rolling pin roll out on a slightly floured working top until thin and flat…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 10…pull apart the dough sheets with your hands like a pizza to reach the size of a plate…





Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 11…next, lay one dough sheet onto a cutting board…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 12…spread evenly with about 30 grams of soft butter…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 13…top with another dough sheet…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 14…& also spread evenly with about 30 grams of soft butter…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 15…then process all other dough sheets as seen in steps 11 – 14, but do not spread the last sheet with butter…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 16…afterwards allow the dough stack to chill in the fridge for 30 minutes…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 17…again slightly flour the countertop…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 18…lift the dough stack onto the floured surface & first carefully flatten the stack with your hands from the inside outwards…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 19…then start to roll out with a rolling pin…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 20…until thin & flat…





Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 21…afterwards with a pizza cutter or knife cut the dough circle into 8 equal sized triangles…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 22…roll out each triangle with a rolling pin again…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 23…then place a bar of dark chocolate onto the triangle’s wide side …

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 24…and roll up from the wide side…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 25…to form croissants…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 26…place 4 croissants with a little distance to each other onto a lined baking tray…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 27…and allow to rest for 45 minutes in a warm place…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 28…until the volume has increased significantly…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 29…finally whisk together 1 egg with a sip milk…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 30…brush the croissants with the egg mixture…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 31…& bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (top/bottom heat) for 12 – 15 minutes…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 32…get the croissants out of the oven…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 33…decoratively garnish the croissants with some melted dark chocolate…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 34…then allow them to cool completely…

Homemade Chocolate Croissants - Step 35…& serve!

I wish you lots of fun cooking/baking 😉

Video Tutorial:

Watch the video tutorial to see the recipe and the preparation method precisely (German Audio only, English Subtitles available):

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