Life-Changing Cheater's Croissant Dough
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2026 · 8 croissants
Against 114 croissant recipes
More milk or water than 94% of recipes and more butter than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 114 croissant recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More milk or water than 94% of recipes: 75% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 58%.
- More butter than 90% of recipes: 79% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 60%.
- More egg in the dough than 99% of recipes: 30% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 19 times as much.
- More yeast than 79% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
Ingredients (11)
- 1/4 cup (60 grams) water, room temperature or tap60 g
- 1/2 cup (125 grams) milk, 2% or whole125 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 2 1/4 cups (286 grams) all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting286 g
- 2 teaspoons (7 grams) instant yeast7 g
- 1.5 teaspoons (6 grams) Diamond Crystal kosher salt6 g
- 2 tablespoons (25 grams) sugar25 g
- 1 cup (227 grams) butter, salted or unsalted, cold, cut into thin slices227 g
- 2 egg yolks≈ 36 g
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream≈ 30 g
- pinch sea salt≈ 0.4 g
flour 286 gbatter 852 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 114 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter79% · 91st percentile · median 60%
- Milk or water75% · 95th percentile · median 58%
- Sugar8.7% · 31st percentile · median 10%
- Salt2.2% · 70th percentile · median 2%
- Yeast2.4% · 82nd percentile · median 1.6%
- Egg in the dough30% · 100th percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 20 minutes
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