Where To Buy Fresh Croissants

After some delicious taste-testing, Gaston's Bakery Croissants earned our top spot. If you're looking for croissants that come fully baked and just require thawing, go with Angelina Bakery's Plain Croissants, which also have incredible flavor.

where to buy fresh croissants

Plant-based bakery and sandwich shop Allegro Hearth Bakery uses traditional techniques to make their house-made breads and pastries from scratch, including their croissants, which are laminated with house-made sunflower butter. Croissants are available in plain and chocolate, and they also have an almond palmier on the menu, using their croissant dough and spiked with powdered sugar and almond extract. You can also pick up Allegro Hearth Bakery croissants at their sister restaurant, b52 in Lawrenceville. (2034 Murray Avenue)

Food truck La Petite Tour de France can be found in spots across town (just check their website for their calendar), serving French pastries made with their own from-scratch dough, using hand-pounded fresh butter to laminate their doughs, creating the buttery and flaky layers in their croissants. Butter croissants and chocolate croissants are available year-round, and their croques-monsieurs and other sandwiches are made using their plain croissants. Seasonally, other flavors, including pumpkin chocolate, peppermint chocolate and cinnamon, are also available.

These not-to-be missed croissants were created by a local Frenchman who moved to the U.S. 25 years ago, and yearned for the authentic, buttery-rich croissants he grew up with back home. He hand-rolled his all-natural secret dough, rich in fresh farm butter, into jumbo-sized croissants, then flash-freezes them, unbaked.

You let them thaw and rise overnight; each croissant will almost triple in size by morning, when you simply bake for a hot, airy, fresh buttery delight. Perfect for brunch (served with smoked salmon, of course!) or a family breakfast treat.

This Homemade Croissants recipe is so buttery, flaky, and will make your morning breakfast so much more delicious! A complete recipe guide with pictures and video to teach you to make the most perfect croissants from scratch.

However, I want to show you that baking is not so difficult and with a little practice anyone can be successful at it. Even when it comes to making something as decadent as these croissants! They are a labor of love, but they are so worth it and surprisingly simple to put together.

To freeze baked croissants, let them fully cool down to room temperature. Place them in an airtight container, a freezer bag, or wrapped tightly in both plastic wrap and foil. They will last 1-2 months frozen. Thaw them by letting them sit at room temperature for 1 hour.

To freeze unbaked croissants, shape them first and let them sit covered with plastic wrap on a baking sheet in the freezer for a few hours until they freeze. Transfer the par-frozen croissants to a freezer bag or airtight container and they will last 1-2 months.

Even when we moved to a different street, three bakeries were within one or two blocks. I was spoiled for choice. After moving back to the United States, freshly made croissants were on my list of things I missed the most.

From the gorgeous case of pastries to the ambience, Le Reve does feel a bit like a dream. The breakfast pastries, baked from scratch in-house, range from plain ($2.50) or chocolate croissants ($3.00) to almond-filled versions ($3.50) and even pistachio-filled versions ($3.50), though the latter are available only on Saturdays.

Also worth a try: The adorable mini tartlets. They are darling and taste as wonderful as they look. The cream base in the fruit tartlets ($2) is refreshingly lemony. The chocolate mousse cup ($3.50) sits in an edible chocolate cup, painted to look like flowers. It's entirely possible to eat it in one mouthful.

"Good butter is absolutely essential" to a good croissant, according to Amaranth Bakery owner David Boucher. "A higher fat content, lower moisture." And you can definitely can tell that's what went into the plain ($2.75), chocolate and almond ($2.95) croissants here. They're flaky and delicate and of course tasty. I found myself licking my finger and picking up the flakes that had fallen onto the plate (and my clothes).

On Boulangerie du Monde's expansive pastry menu, of course you'll find croissants ($2.25) and pains aux chocolats (the French name for chocolate croissants, $2.75), but if something a bit less common is what you're seeking, you'll be spoiled for choice.

Such is the ubiquity of croissants that you can now find them at just about any coffee shop nowadays. Some succeed better than others, and Stone Creek Coffee definitely belongs in the former category. The from-scratch croissants are baked fresh every day at Stone Creek's Factory Cafe location.

You could definitely keep the same triangle shape as we do with regular croissants, but the rectangle shape protects the chocolate from oozing out too much. And you can fit more chocolate inside. ?

These are phenomenal- beautiful and delicious. I now make these every year for Christmas. I make them ahead and freeze the shaped pastries raw. On Christmas Eve, I thaw them overnight in the fridge. Then on Christmas morning, all I have to do is brush with egg wash and bake- and just like that we have warm fresh pastries.

Indulge. Because after making the dough and rolling it out a million times, you completely deserve to. Enjoy them plain or with jam or homemade raspberry sauce. Interested in chocolate croissants? Of course you are!

Hi Cat, So glad you tried these homemade croissants. If you decide to try them again, make a couple adjustments in the oven. First, lower the oven temp by 25F, which you have tried. Lower the oven rack, too. Both will help the croissants bake more evenly. You can also tent them loosely with aluminum foil which will prevent the outsides/bottoms from burning.

Known in France as croissants de boulanger, this yeasted dough is layered with butter and given a succession of folds that create the distinctive profile of classic croissants. Light and airy and shatteringly crisp, with a deeply caramelized buttery flavor, these croissants are a labor of love that's absolutely worth the time.

Take the croissants out of the refrigerator, and let them warm and rise for 60 to 90 minutes at room temperature. They should expand noticeably, and when you gently press one with your finger, the indentation should remain.

You can make rectangular, filled croissants, too. See our blog for step by step instructions on how to do this. Fill croissants with ham and cheese, spinach, or use our pain au chocolate sticks for a special treat.

I grew up in Paris, but I've never eaten better than living in Houston. My adopted city has almost every food I could possibly want, but if there's one thing I miss about France, it's most certainly the croissants.

Finally, and I don't say this often about many foods, but Americans, I am begging you: Your croissants do not need to be that big. Making them that way is just setting you up for croissant failure. (I can say this because I am also an American citizen.)

So here goes. One of my most recent stops was at Cafe Louie, a new, much-buzzed-about restaurant in the East End that has quickly risen to breakfast fame in Houston. The first time I visited, at about 11:30 a.m. on a Saturday, I stood in line for 45 minutes to order at the counter. Internally groaning at how un-Houston this was, I saw that I was slowly inching closer and closer to a display of seemingly overbaked croissants. This visual assessment proved correct when I finally got my hands on one, but I could tell Cafe Louie's croissant had possessed potential before spending a couple minutes too long in the oven.

A newcomer to the Urban Harvest Farmers Market, I Love Croissants piqued my interest. On another Saturday where I failed to roll out of bed early enough, I arrived at the market to find the stand's plain croissants sold out. They have plenty of stuffed versions, but tasting only the classic is my control method. I finally returned last weekend, promptly at 8:30 a.m., and scored one. While it was way too big and didn't have quite enough flake, it boasted good dislocation and layers, and excellent butter ratio.

This journey made me feel like the Boucles d'Or of croissants (yep, that's the French translation of the classic Goldilocks children's books). I made more trips and ate more croissants than I'm going to discuss here, but I can't leave you without revealing the one that was just right.

Many Houstonians recommended Magnol French Baking, a bakery in a very odd corner of east Spring Branch right where I-610 meets U.S. 290. I visited when I first started my croissant pursuit and again when I ended it this past weekend. During both bookend trips, I overheard a French family eating there, which is always a good sign.

Balter grew up in Paris, France, where she got an early taste for good food and wine. She studied English Literature at Newcastle University in the U.K. and was the lifestyle editor of the student newspaper. She currently lives in southwest Houston.

A specialty from France...a brioche-style puff pastry made with eggs, butter, and real chocolate. bakerly French chocolate croissants are the reason you will get out of bed every morning. They will make your days happier and yummier since they are filled with the perfect amount of chocolate.

Chocolate croissants are a specialty of France... a brioche style puff pastry made with eggs, butter, and real chocolate by our bakers with "Savoir Faire" which means expertise in French.

For a satisfying snack before hitting Venice beach, stop by this plant-based deli for a vegan croissant or two! New Deli stocks plain, almond, and chocolate croissants from Frogs Bakery alongside other pastries, deli items, pantry staples, and grab-and-go meals.

After receiving several requests from customers for plant-based options, Toluca Bakery & Cafe has now transitioned to be 100% vegan. How amazing is that? The family-owned bakery specializes in Mexican pan dulce, but they offer a few European-inspired bites as well, such as croissants, danishes, fruit tarts, and more. 041b061a72