#cookery courses in Lucca: Mini Croissants Cookies by Nonna Rossy, deliciously stuffed with Nutella or Jam

She’s my mother in law and one of my best partners in our job: CuocheinVacanza.

She has always been a housewife taking care of her family.
Since I started my job of cooking classes trainer and chef at home, I asked her to come with me directly to the holiday homes of our students and guests. This was probably one of the most intelligent ideas I never had: now, at 5 years from the birth of my company CuocheinVacanza, I’m grateful to her for the precious tips and advices.

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Although I attented to the Italian Academy for Professional Chefs in Florence, I can truly say that her teachings, with those from my Grandma, are the most important school for me.
In fact everyone can learn tecniques, but few people are so lucky to be followed from someone who put her heart in cooking and thinks to the guests first of all.Obviously she’s a really fantastic chef, a marvellous person and she’s always ready to teach everyone the finest art of cooking, that’s why she’s so requested in our Cookery Courses around Tuscany.

mini croissants

Here is one of her “little bakery” cookie.
You’re going to abtain a really elegant cookie, worth of the best bakeries, but so easy to make!

Few words: success is guaranteed!

Mini Croissants Cookies

Recipe by Erika Elia (CuocheinVacanza.it)

Prep time: 40 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Total time: 1 hour

Ingredients

500 grflour
250 grunsalted butter
250 gryogurt
2 tspbakery powder

For the filling

Nutella (250gr)
Any kind of Jam (250gr)

To decorate

Icing Sugar or Cocoa Powder

Cooking Directions

Soft the butter, start kneading (you can use a mixer as well) the flour with the butter, add the yogurt continuing to knead, add the bakery powder at last.
When you obtained a soft and beautiful dough ball, cover with a film and leave it to rest half an hour in the fridge.
Passed the time, take your rolling pin or, if you prefer, set your pasta machine on the table.
Roll your dough to extra thin stripes
Each stripe size: 10 cm widht…the lenght doesn’t matter
help you with a pastry wheeler and form many triangles over these stripes. I found a special tool for “mini-croissants” in a bakery shop: you’ve just to pass it over the stripe of dough, pressing a bit. It’s not necessary at all, but I love buying everything dealing with cooking…it’s one of my weak points.
A small trick that thaught me Rossy: the triangles must be longer than large…is much easier to roll up for a croissant
Once you’ve your triangles, you can fill them starting from the base; put a nut of Nutella (or your favourite jam) very close to the base.
Roll up the croissants starting from the base to the apex of the triangle: did you obtain a mini croissant? Good Job!
Make a lots of them and put in oven 180°C for about 20 minutes.
Until they’ll have a pale golden color, don’t brown them.
Once they’re ready and cold…sprinkle with icing sugar (I prefer this version) or cocoa powder.

Let taste them by your children or friends for a tea time…they’ll always remember you, talking about a very good pastry chef. Despite of your easy and fast work you obtained very elegant and amazing cookies.

Salva

Comments

Pia says

2 August 2021 at 15:28

Hello ! We are near Lucca this week and was wondering g if you could do some cooking class for our children and maybe lunch or dinner at home?

Thanks !

- Erika Elia says
  
  2 August 2021 at 16:10
  
  Ciao Pia, thanks for writing! I’m sorry, but already busy in these days. Hope you’ll arrive in Tuscany another time so that to arrange a class! Buone vacanze!