Cheat's Chocolate Croissants

Have you ever tried a croissant from Paul's Cafe in Dubai. They are all over the place and are the good buttery french kind. I'm still new to Brisbane and am on the look for a comparable croissant.

The husband and I enjoyed our Friday morning breakfasts at Paul's and I truly miss the laziness of those initial years of married bliss.

Bringing us back to Brisbane, it was the Christmas week and I wanted something special I could just chuck in the freezer and pull out at breakfast or tea.

Nigella Lawson came to the rescue with her Cheat's recipe which uses all-butter ready-rolled puff pastry.



Ingredients:

• 375 grams all-butter ready-rolled puff pastry sheet 
• 100 grams dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids or best quality milk chocolate bar for children) 
• 1 large egg (beaten) 

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 220°C. Roll out the sheet of pastry and then cut it into six squares. 
• Cut each square diagonally to give 2 triangles (they will appear quite small). Put the triangle with the wider part facing you, and the point away from you. 
• Break off small pieces of chocolate, to place on the pastry triangles, about 2cm / ¾ inch up from the wide end nearest you. 
• Carefully roll from that chocolate-loaded end towards the point of the triangle. 
• You should now have something resembling a straight croissant. Seal it slightly with your fingertips and curl it around into a crescent. 
• Place the 12 chocolate croissants on a lined but not buttered baking tray and paint with the beaten egg. Bake for 15 minutes until they are golden and puffy and exuberantly, if miniaturely, croissant-like.