First up: Sugared Crescents
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup warm milk
- 1 Tablespoon dry active yeast
- 1 & 1/2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 stick melted butter
- 5 cups of flour (add more if needed)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Egg wash
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon water
- 9 tablespoon sugar
- Combine 1/2 cup milk and yeast.
- Stir.
- Let sit for 5 to 10 minutes to rise.
- Pour 1 & 1/2 cups of milk into stand mixer.
- Add salt, sugar, eggs, butter, yeast mixture, vanilla, and flour.
- Turn mixer on low and let ingredients come together.
- Allow mixer to knead dough for another 20 minutes.
- Cover with a cloth in a warm place and let rise to 1 to 2 hours.
- Punch the dough down.
- Pour a couple of tablespoons of oil on work surface and cover hands with oil as well.
- Turn the dough out onto the work surface and bring ends towards the center making a neat ball.
- Make ball into a log.
- Cut log into three equal pieces.
- Shape each into a ball and set aside to rest.
- Whisk together 2 eggs and 1 tablespoon of water, set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Set baking rack in the middle.
- Roll a dough ball as thin as you can into a circle.
- Lightly sprinkle with 3 tablespoons of sugar.
- Cut diagonally 5 or 6 times (like a pizza).
- Roll the crescents starting with the thickest end, rolling towards the thinnest end.
- Place shaped crescents onto a baking sheet, end down, about 2 to 3 inches apart.
- Allow them to rise for 15 to 30 minutes.
- Brush with egg wash.
- Bake until golden, 15 to 20 minutes.
