The croissants that the dog ate or at least licked on

That is the punishment for being late and avoiding things until it's almost too late. I knew very well that this month's challenge wasn't going to be easy, so I really should have started earlier to be able to compensate for mistakes and retries.

I had never even thought of trying to bake croissants, so I was thrilled when this month's challenge was announced by Katie of Thyme for cooking. Silly, silly me to wait so long to start baking! The result of my first and only try was not really what I have anticipated, they were heavy and didn't have that flaky texture that you want in croissants. I think I should have folded the dough and rolled it out again more times than I did.

There was a discussion among the babes about the fluid content, and again there seemed to be at least partly an issue of the different flours that we use. One of the babes had used an additional l 100 ml of milk, but when I tried to do the same, I got a very loose dough and had to add more flour instead. I started over again, and now used an additional 50 ml of milk which was appropriate for my circumstances.

I don't know if this was subconscious decision, but I didn't close the gate (one of those gates intended to keep small children out or in, in our case used to keep the dog out) to the kitchen properly before I went to bed which of course resulted in the dog feasting on everything edible in the kitchen. OK, she left 3-4 croissants, but since she probably had licked on those, so no one wanted to eat them. And therefore, I didn't have to hear what I already knew, i.e. that the croissants were a failure ...

I don't think there was any problem with the instructions, since the other babes came out with good results, at least after a second try. If you want to try too, and become a Bread Baking Buddy, head over to Katie for the recipe, all instructions plus a lot of other interesting stuff about croissants.

And some of the other babes succeeded very well with their attempts, so I suggest that you steer over to them and see how they did it:

Bake My Day (Karen), I Like to Cook (Sara), Living on Bread and Water (Monique), My Kitchen in Half Cups (Tanna), Lucullian Delights (Ilva), Notitie van Lien (Lien), The Sour Dough (Mary aka Breadchick), Cookie Baker Lynn (Lynn)

And I will definitely try again, some day I WILL bake good croissants!

Buddy Roundup - Rosendal crisp bread

I guess that the Christmas and the preparations for it hit me with full force, I practically haven't done anything blogwise since November. This roundup was actually due nearly a month ago! That's bad behavior ... so sorry for that, Buddies, Babes all others!

Having said that, here are the competent Rosendal crisp bread buddies, in order of appearance:

Marjoke of Company In My Kitchen produced this lovely stack of bread:

 

Astrid of Paulchen's Foodblog completely understood the purpose of the hole:

 

Natalia of Gatti Fili e Farina had an alternate interpretation, very good indeed, but the backdraw is that the breadholder might have walked away when you want to make a sandwich:

 

Natashya of Living in the Kitchen with Puppies used a breadholder that won't run away on its own:

Caitlin of Engineer Baker made snowman holes and crackers with her only cookie cutter (so much more fun than round holes):

 

Rita of Soepkipje made these beautiful breads and crackers (and also used an interesting bread pricking device, which picture I unfortunately couldn't copy):

 

Judy of judy's gross eats Mickyfied her crisp bread:

 

Gretchen of Canela & Comino added red pepper to some of her bread, that is something that I have to try:

 

Thanks to all Buddies for participating in this challenge, and for creatively giving new ideas on how to bake this bread!