Croissants should be made with butter, and butter is what makes the croissants. This particular croissants, however, has extra lite Olive Oil raw roux and butter as my test for the alternative to the full butter block croissants. In the past experiments, a pound of butter is used to make the butter block. Since then, I have learned to make croissants with half pound or less butter. One of the reason is the home oven. It behaves differently than the commercial convection oven, and all the butter are just melting out of the croissants. The croissants turned out flaky outside. Inside layer texture is replaced by bread crumb like texture. As for the taste, it could use half to three-quarter stick more of the butter. The silpat remained quite clean without a puddle of melted butter wasted.
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