Nutella au Pain

Guess what was yesterday? World Nutella Day! This day is hosted by Sara and Michelle. As some of you know, I love nutella. How could I not participate. This time I wanted to attack croissants. I decided to make a Nutella au Pain. I also had a book club meeting with my friends and cousin so I figured I would use them as my guinea pigs. I was meaning to crack open my Modern Bakers book by Nick Malgieri. I have been meaning to try all the recipes in the book and I wanted to start with this one.  For the filling I used my homemade nutella recipe. 

  

The recipe is called On-Step Croissants
(adapted from The Modern Baker by Nick Malgieri)
1/2 Cup of Milk
4 Tsp of Dry Yeast
2 Cups of Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
2 Tbs of Sugar
3/4 Tsp of Salt
20 Tbs of Cold Unsalted Butter (diced in 1/2 cubes)
An egg wash
Directions

1. Take 1/2 of the milk and warm it to lukewarm (either in a sauce pan or microwave) and than add the yeast. Set aside
2. Combine the flour, sugar, and salt into a food processor. Pulse until it is well combined.
3. Add 4 tbs of the cold butter to food processor and mix into it is well-incorporated.
4. Add the rest of the butter but only pulse twice.
5. Take the rest of the milk and add it to the warm milk. Add the mixture into the food process and pulse 3 times.
6. Remove from the processor onto a floured surface and form a ball. Flatten into a rough rectangle.
7. Roll out the dough into a 12x15 rectangle.
8. Take the longer sides and fold over a third of it into the middle. Do this on the other side.
9. Gently roll up the dough until it forms a square. (I didn't exactly do this part just right)
10. Place in a plastic bag and let it rise in room temp for 1 1/2 hour to 2.
11. Put it in the refrigerator for 8 hours.
12. Once it sits for 8 hours, remove from the bag onto a floured surface.
13. Roll out the dough into a 12 x 15 inch rectangle.
14. Cut out long triangles to form the croissant. (I did rectangles since I was filling them.)

*This is what I did different

1. Take the rectangles and put a dollop of nutella (store-bought or homemade, this is what I used) into the center.
2. Bring up the sides to form a little pouch.
3. Place on a prepared baking sheet and cover.
4. Let it rise until it doubles in size
5. Pre-heat the oven 350F
6. Once it has risen brush the egg wash
7. Bake for 15 minutes and than rotate the pans to the opposite rack for the next 15 minutes
8. Let it cool and serve

I would have made the dough a little more smoother. This is the first time I tired this recipe and I can't wait to try it again.

It didn't come out as flaky as I hoped. 

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