#nationalscroissantday

This Month We Are All About Croissants

to celebrate our favorite day of the year: #nationalcroissantday

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Unlike you might expect from the name, croissants are not originally French. They were introduced to France by Marie Antoinette. It is said that fifteen-year-old Marie Antoinette traveled to Versailles, to marry the future king of France, Louis XVI, in the year 1770. The Austrian princess herself introduced the croissant to France. The story is that Marie Antoinette, homesick in Versailles, requested the royal bakers to recreate her favorite Viennese pastry – at least that’s the story.

Croissants are a buttery, crescent-shaped rolls that are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. The key to a perfect croissant is laminating the dough which creates multiple thin layers of butter and dough resulting in a mouth-watering flaky crust and airy body that we crave every morning. When it bakes, the butter melts and creates steam because butter has a good percentage of water. The steam gets trapped in the individual layers and that causes the flakiness, tender layers. Butter is melting and the dough is absorbing that melting butter, attributing to the delicious flavor of the croissant.

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Our bakeries will celebrate #nationalcroissantday on Saturday January 30th, and in preparation to that we are cranking out your favorites croissant varieties, different spreads to pair them with, and a very special giveway for one lucky of you to extra indulge.

 
Federica Cusumano