Cruffins with creme pat & compote
I have been wanting to try making croissants for some time and having followed @danthebaker and seeing the pics his posts of his vanilla bean/raspberry cruffins, I had all the motivation I needed. I really didn't know what made a croissant recipe different from a brioche and, I guess I still don't know since I found multiple recipes that had the same ingredients. The most common difference I found though was that it seemed croissants didn't have eggs while brioche dough did. Having made brioche dough before (see my morning bun blog which was also inspired by Dan's cruffins), I decided to go with a croissant recipe that did not have eggs. I settled on this croissant recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction. I decided the recipe would be too much dough for me -- and that I wanted something more in line with the morning bun recipe -- to make 12 cruffins for Mother's Day, so I halved the recipe -- 250g of flour and so on. I figured the biggest change a
