Croissant/pain au chocolat/pain aux raisins?

[SmithsInFrance]

Warmed Croissant cut open and filled with bacon, mushrooms and if really decadent, popped back in the oven with Gruyere - yum !!

Hmmm a savoury approach which could only work with a croissant. Good thinking

 

[busby]

I have put on half a stone just reading this thread, BUSBY.

 

[SuperMike]

Baguette with chorizo inserted into it and Apricot Croissants.

 

[John Barrett]

I put Tesco Three Fruit bitter sweet marmalade on my hot croissants. Marvellous!

 

[scotzsue]

plain croissants with a touch of honey unless they have a sweet glaze

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[bigtwin]

From the choices presented, it has to be a plain croissant but even that gets trumped by a simple baguette!

Ian

 

[bigtwin]

We have a lovely thing up here called an Aberdeen Buttery, pronounced Ayberdeen. They are delicious. Butter and marmalade on them. They get called different things but that's what I know them as. First encountered them on holiday in Johnshaven on the East coast when I was a bairn.

They are delicious!

Ian

 

[Pete5996]

I put Tesco Three Fruit bitter sweet marmalade on my hot croissants. Marvellous!

It's a funny thing how our tastes differ. My standard brekky is toast and marmalade - never jam - but if I have an occasional croissant, it has to be strawberry or apricot jam - I've found marmalade and croissant just doesn't seem right to me!

 

[Vanderek]

pain aux raisins... and on a good day two

 

[Pete5996]

From the choices presented, it has to be a plain croissant but even that gets trumped by a simple baguette!
Ian

A simple baguette - that reminds me. Back in the early 90s, I did a sponsored bike ride to Alencon. We were put up overnight in a girls' school in Sees (no, they were all on holiday, in case you were wondering!). Breakfast was provide - bowls of steaming hot chocolate, with fresh baguettes, buttered with apricot jam, for dunking. Great fuel for a day's ride!

A very occasional treat now, though

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[two]

Plain (all-butter) croissants have the advantage that you can add (and vary) your own filling.

 

[LesW]

We do like the Almond one's, but we're not particularly fussy.

Feeling hungry now..

 

[Clarky]

Will you lot stop this please..........it’s becoming like the drip torture. ☹
First a thread about going to France for the first time and now breakfast treats.
Here we all are, locked down at home with the van sitting on the drive looking unloved. Drip,drip, drip........!
Roll on next year when we can, hopefully, all get back to those lovely places and I can get back to my favourite.........fresh warm croissants with peach jam.
My mouth is watering at the thought.

Richard.

 

[pappajohn]

I love fresh warm croissants, but I can't understand why the locals dip theirs into their coffee!

Possibly to give their coffee some taste..
Bloody horrible stuff.

 

[Stroppy Bird]

Erm.... All of them?

We're terrible when we go into a boulangerie/patisserie. Always buy far too much as everything always looks so tempting.

I remember a school exchange trip where I was introduced to a breakfast of pain au chocolat dunked in a massive mug (more like a bowl) of hot chocolate - probably the youngsters version of the croissant dunked in coffee.

I occasionally treat myself to that now.

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[Chris]

Plain for me. I quite like them in France but don’t like the Spanish version.

 

[denisejoe]

Definitely the almond croissants; or if none left pain aux raison

 

[spitfire]

Depends on the baker.

 

[pandas]

Depends on the baker.

We bake our own, frozen Waitrose croissants are really quite a good alternative in this lock down period.

 

[spitfire]

We bake our own, frozen Waitrose croissants are really quite a good alternative in this lock down period.

No Waitrose here ! Baker calls Wednesday and Saturday . His pain is excellent but his s croissants are terrible .

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[Rapphil]

Almond croissant and custard flan favourites. Didn’t realise croissant originated in Austria,until I just looked it up, as a Kipferl.

 

[HugoBNB]

Plain croissant for me from our local boulangerie. So saying, the baguettes I buy there at the same time always seem to arrive home with the ends missing. I have absolutely no idea how that happens.........

 

[Minxy]

In Portugal is has to be their Pastel de Nata (their version of egg custard but soooooooooo much better! Fortunately you can actually get these from Lidl in the UK now so we occasionally treat ourselves.

 

[yodeli]

All of them! Croissants, Pains au chocolat (which are here called Chocolatines... big fight between North and South!)
But one I particularly love is the Jésuite

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[G-RMPS]

Pain au raisins, which were called “escargots” when we lived in Geneva!

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[Sid52]

Pain aux raisins, bien sur!

 

[two]

Waitrose Almond or Hazelnut croissants are delicious, but I'd class them as 'pastries' rather than bread.

 

[Gerby]

I do love a warm Pain au Chocolate but prefer a Maple and Pecan if one is available.

 

[Kirsten]

Je regret! Je N’ anime croissants - too fatty and too early ( dont eat breakfast) but can eat baguette butter and cheese every day when in France . Have been found wandering in withdrawal trance when back in Blighty , muttering to self ‘ from age ... du pain ‘ in a heartbroken way

 

[Val 3 dogs]

Plain croissants or these apricot ones for me,
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To steal a quote from an old friend "Get thee behind me and PUSH!"

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