Pain au Chocolat

After being faced with a lazy Sunday, I decided to challenge myself and make pain au chocolats from scratch!

Having never made puff-pastry before I wasn't quite prepared for the lengthy 3 hour process of folding...chilling...and rolling the dough to form the many layers. The recipe I used was from 'Baking Mad' (http://www.bakingmad.com/pain-au-chocolat-recipe/), however I found this video very useful when making my pastry...

After a total of 6 hours I finally got to taste one of my delicious pain au chocolats! And here they are...

Now they have layers even Mary Berry would be proud of! I have to say my only criticism would be that they were too chocolatey...but there are worse things!

You should definitely try this recipe, it was easy to follow and produced a delicious pain au chocolat! Just be wary of the prep time as there is 4 hours of proving and chilling involved also.