🥐🍫Will you look at all of this pain au chocolat/chocolatine/chocolate croissant love?👏🏼Looks like I'm going to have to do some research. Any recipe recommendations? 🥐🍫
You can do it. May I recommend a one step booster stool? It may be super helpful to get a little more leverage for the laminating process with really cold butter. 💕💕💕
It really depends on where you get them from, each place makes it a little different and it's kind of their own proprietary recipe. I'd have to say most are pretty mediocre/okay (like the one you had), you rarely get any that are terrible but the good ones, like the really good ones, you can definitely taste something special in them - like maybe the quality of ingredients are better or more time got put into them.
I love that Emmy doesn’t blink twice at making a chocolate bar from raw cacao beans but laminating dough/pain au chocolat is the thing that intimidates her. I mean, it intimidates me too, I get it, but I’d also never tackle half of the brave concoctions she’s taken on. So yes, Emmy, I think you can reach for the stars and finally get your pain au chocolat!
I was in a really dark place recently and your wholesome, bubbly positive attitude always chipped away at the dark cloud over me so I'd click on your videos and keep watching and it helps. Sincerely thank you Emmy so much your content is a ray of sunshine when it all gets too much.
Emmy telling me I’m special and worthy of love really hit my heart a lot more than I thought it would. She is such a beautiful, warm person and I hope you knows that
I've decided to get clean from my multiple drug addictions, and starting rehab. It's been so hard but Emmy's videos are really a light in my life. Her attitude and comforting energy are so inspirational and heartwarming to me. Don't know what it'd do without it honestly
I’m so proud of you! You can do this! It is possible!! Yes it’s hard but if it was easy it would be easy to go back and if it’s hard it’s hard to go back! #wedorecovery #werecoveroutloud
@@meowrchl97 Our Portuguese egg custard tarts are very different in taste. We add lemon zest to the egg custard batter and sprinkle cinnamon on top when cooled and out of the oven. Not the easiest of pastries to make but damn right remarkable 👌🏼
I'm a pastry chef and making laminated doughs aren't hard, it's just time consuming. I've made croissants before, and it took three days. it wasn't hard, you just have to let the dough rest, and roll, and add an enormous amount of butter. Butter makes everything better
@@thedolcetto81 I would a vegan butter that isn’t Margarine! I think they make butter flavord lard? I would go with your favorite non dairy butter that acts like normal butter and gets hard in the fridge
When she first showed the picture of the tarts in the cookbook, did anyone else see the custard part as convex domes instead of concave craters? I think it's because of the lighting situation. Her light source was from the left, as evidenced by the highlight and shadow on her hand. The shines and shadows on the custard gave the impression they were being lit by the same source, and so created the illusion that they were domed on top. Trick of the eye.
I have wanted to make the Portuguese tarts you mentioned and watched them being made several times. the problem is that everytime I think about actually making them, I lie down till the feeling goes away.
Emmy, I just wanted to let you know that your videos are our go-to videos when my little girls and I want to watch something short together. My oldest (6 years old) wants to be a baker and she loves watching your videos. I love your wholesome videos and that I don’t need to worry about the content being child-appropriate. 💜
Whaaaaaaaat!? I've made the Portuguese version which is so much more labour intensive than these! Just what! Now i need to try these ones, im crazy about custard so what can go wrong? Now im craving tarts, thanx Emmy! 😭
I recently made croissants and they were a HOT MESS! First of all, i do not like laminating dough, it was messy for me, they turned out delicious to ME, but they more so were similar to a bread in the inside being very chewy which i didnt mind at all. I love baking even tho something always goes wrong lol!
As long as you enjoyed it, that's all that matters 😊 I'm terrified to make laminated dough. I can cook up a storm, but baking is definitely not a talent of mine! It's such a precise art, with little to no room for error. But, it doesn't stop me from trying!
The bread texture instead of separate layers is because your butter was too warm when laminating and got incorporated in the layer instead of being separate. Same will be with puff pastry. Better luck next time.
Hey emmy. The best egg custard tart I have ever tasted was at an Amish owned bakery down a back road in Ohio!!!! I would love to see you make cheez whiz biscuits
Hate to say but the Amish farm I went to as a youngling had the absolute best egg noodles ever. I’m in my fifty’s now and I have never found anything that tastes better than those
laminated dough is soooooo good, and it actually always baffled me that every single american recipe that i've watched use store bought puff pastry dough [not that doesn't exist just 99% of the ones i've watched use store bought] and we can't really find this kind of dough 'ready to buy' on markets around here, so the only option is to actually make at home hahahaha but it's definitely easier to do at home than most recipes/people make it seems xD it's like they amp it up the 'difficulty of the recipe as something sooo intimidating but it's actually not that bad/hard also emmy xD MAKE CHOCOLATE CROISSANTS and while you're at it, use the same dough to make some savory ones aswell i loooooove the chicken/cream cheese ones. ooooh so gooooood! but the chocolate ones are not my favorite sweet ones but the ones with creme patissiere inside and some fine snow sugar ontop ♡
Personally I think there’s nothing to beat the achievement of perfectly recreating something you ate as a child, it brings back so many great memories and you can pass the experience on to your own kids to enjoy 🥰
i've made croissants several times, the first time was tricky but you get the hang of it after doing it once or twice, my main issue was mostly just yeast not working, probably all the refrigeration, butter, and sugar that can kill it, so making sure your yeast is very active with a preferment isn't a bad idea
Emmy, brava! Brava! On your first attempt, you absolutely owned that puff pastry. Yours even looked puffier than those in the cookbook. You'll have zero problems with pain au chocolat!
Omigosh, your lamination is perfect, you'll slay the croissants. I find it fascinating that egg custard tarts find their way into the foods of so many cultures across the globe. They certainly are one of my favourites. I grew up in South Africa, where we make a big custard tart, with a layer of cinnamon on top, called milk tart, here in the UK we have smaller tarts, usually with nutmeg. There is something so comforting about crisp pastry contrasted with rich creamy egginess. Yum, it's making my mouth water.
Chocolate croissant sounds lovely. The UK has similar custard tarts - I love 'em. I imagine most of Europe does. We'd put a little nutmeg on the surface of the egg custard before you bake. Pastéis de Nata are divine. Your pastry looks very nice.
I didn't know Emmy grew up in the East Bay. I wonder if she ever goes back there? I'd love to see her do a tour of food places in the area. Seeing her do a walkthrough of Berkeley Bowl would be fun. Also Oakland Chinatown, the Fruitvale district in Oakland, the farmer's market at Jack London Square, and special places like Homeroom, Bakesale Betty, Brown Sugar Kitchen, The Cheese Board, and Monterey Market.
I ABSOLUTELY encourage you to attempt the Portuguese egg tarts (Pastel de Nata) I'm from Brazil (we love our egg sweets) and had the chance to try the original ones in Belém, Portugal... if done properly they're the best. Hands down.
I love your channel, but I have one thing to comment on, that's your descriptive phrase "Stinking" great. "Stinking" great is an oxymoron, a phrase or thing that is contradictory or incongruous when used together. Example: "Deafening silence, living death, fiendish angel, thunderous quiet". They don't work together. When you say, "stinking" great, I get the idea that whatever you are going to show us, they probably aren't going to work for me. I know, it's picky. But I majored in English eons ago, and sometimes that old stick-in-the-bottom wordiness surfaces. Maybe fabulously tasty, impressively great, majorly wonderful? I can live with that. But stinking great just doesn't fit. Your creations are worth better descriptors. IMO.
you know... Julia Child has a vintage video from her original TV series that is dedicated to making croissants... watch it, be inspired, and just go make those delish beauties... I love pain au chocolat😍😍😍
Puff pastry might be intimidating but it's only until you've done it. It's so satisfying to roll them into croissant shape. If you mess it up, you can just make it into biscuits or pie crust.
Make the pain au chocolat! Inga from About To Eat made a video about croissants, so maybe you could reach out and pick her brain about it. I would love to see the two of you collaborate!
Aww how cute are those dan tats! I’m getting an air fryer oven tomorrow and didn’t know what to make in it, now thanks to you I know what I’ll be making! 🥰
7:45 fun, useless fact: thats called a "flap". the "flap" is when the "t", or a "d" sound in a word are indistinguishable. for example, if i said "putting" out loud, unless there was context, you wouldnt know if i was saying "pudding" or "putting". its also in the word "hospital" (imagine there was a d instead of a t; itd sound the same, right?), "water" (try saying "wader"--sounds the same!) when you "enunciate" the "t" sound, like what you were doing with butter, thats called an "aspirated" t sound. the british tend to do this (pronounce water, hospital, and putting with a british accent. its no longer a flap!)
It would be cool if the Met Gala invited an incredibly nice RU-vidr to attend. Emmy is just so sweet. Isnt the best thing ever to share a childhood joy with your child? Im now sharing with grandchildren. It brings me so much joy to share my childhood loves with those i love the most.
I've seen them also called pastel de nata. I have a friend who loves them so much he will drive from his house in Salamanca over to Portugal to buy them! They are definitely delicious.
I really do admire Emmy 🥺 She is such a sweet, amazing, warm and cheerful human. We must all take notes on how to strive to be a human like her ( but of course, be yourself) 💕
I made homemade apricot danishes and had to make a laminated dough. Was my first time and felt super intimidating until the final result! Turned out amazing and was a fun challenge.
There's a couple types of dan ta, with different kinds of crust, even different finishing on the filling iirc. I personally am a fan of dan ta with a more like short crust.
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Over here in the UK we actually put grated nutmeg into the egg mixture and then we cook them. People also grate nutmeg on top of the cooked tarts for a garnish. You just try that sometime it tastes amazing 👌
"Emmy make the chocolate croissants"! Even better have a live bake along and all of us who are intimidated by making croissants can overcome our fear together!
Yesteday my sister and I tried to make croissants for the first time (and yes, the laminating process is really time consuming), I think they needed more butter but they tasted really good. I actually was hoping for you to have one video making croissants. I think I've never tried egg custard before but those look delicious!!!
Bessie Bakes has a chocolate croissant recipe that seems like it'd be wonderful. I'm nervous to attempt it but maybe it's a recipe worth looking at. Thanks Emmy! ❤
This is your best video yet. Love your positivity, geekiness, humor, and fun in this one. Thanks for the overindulging for us. I too grew up in the East Bay and love these nostalgic treats. Now I have to get the recipe book.
You can do it Emmy Make the Pan aux Chocolate. Idk who to recommend, but, I love watching the Peaceful Cuisine videos. PS I'm surprised you hadn't done puff pastry before, you do so much so amazingly well, and make it look easy and fun. Those egg tartlets came out perfect. I agree that the crust you made was so much better. Is it just your microphone, or are they crunchier too? Butter is so much yummier than lard
Emmy, I feel like you were extra weird in this episode and I'm absolutely here for it! Also, your laminated dough is lovely & the tarts remind me of little sunshines! 🌞
