Chocolate croissants

These special croissants impress with their simplicity. They are quickly rolled out and shaped into crescents. They are easy to hold, so you just have to bite into them.

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Chocolate croissants

Chocolate croissants with crunchy cacao nibs. Simple croissants that you can take with you wherever you go.

Course small pastries

Keyword Apple, Baking powder, cacao nibs, Date flour, dry yeast, Soy drink, starch flour, Whole spelt flour

Prep Time 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour 45 minutes minutes

Servings 3 person

Ingredients

• 300 g whole spelt flour
• 20 g starch flour
• 1 apple
• 5 g dry yeast
• 2 g baking powder
• 100 g date flour
• 100 ml soy drink
• 200 ml water
• Juice of one lemon
• 2 tbsp extra soy drink
• 1 tsp extra date flour
• 20 g cacao nibs

Instructions

• Wash, peel and core the apple. Then cut into small pieces. Cook in a pan with the water until soft. Then puree.
• Mix the flour, cornflour, date flour and dry yeast.
• Add the baking powder and sprinkle with the lemon juice.
• Then add the apple puree and soy drink.
• Knead everything into a homogeneous dough. Then cover and leave to rise for approx. 1 hour.
• Slide the risen dough onto a floured surface.
• Gently work the cacao nibs into the batter.
• Using a rolling pin, lightly roll out the dough into a square. Cut squares approximately 15 x 15 cm in size. Cut these in half again to make two triangles.
• Gently roll up each triangle from the long side to the tip. Shape the pastry into a crescent. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper with the point facing upwards. Leave to rise for another 15 minutes.
• Bring 2 tablespoons of soy drink with 1 teaspoon of date flour to the boil in a pan.
• Spread the chocolate croissants with it.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 170 degrees Celsius fan oven or hot air for 15 minutes.
• When they are baked, brush lightly with the soy drink again.

Tips

To make it quicker, you can of course also buy ready-made apple puree. Then use approx. 120 g of it. You can also fill the croissants with homemade chocolate cream and then roll them up.

Interesting to know

Cacao nibs are small pieces of cocoa beans. Cacao nibs have a strong, slightly bitter taste and a crunchy texture.