Christmas Cooking Part 1 Mastering the Croissant

I absolutely love croissants. I have mastered the actual recipe and am now working on mastering variations of the recipe. Today, I made regular croissants, pain au chocolat, and pain aux amandes. For Pain au Chocolats, I recommend using bittersweet chocolates or chocolate sticks (you can find them a places like kingarthurflour.com). For the Pain aux Amandes, I found a can of almond paste made by solo at Harmon's Grocery Store. It worked so much better than the tubes of almond paste. It had more moisture and the flavor was incredible. Happy Baking!

Croissant

Pain au Chocolat

Pain aux Amandes