/ / recipes / course / breakfast-pastry By course Breakfast / Pastry 1 viral, validated breakfast / pastry recipes — each tested by a named editor in a real kitchen. French · 830 min · Hard Croissant — croissants de manteiga franceses The benchmark of viennoiserie: a yeasted dough laminated with sheets of cold butter, folded and rolled to create dozens of paper-thin layers that puff into a shatteringly crisp, honeycombed, deeply buttery crescent. It takes patience and cool hands across two days — but a homemade croissant is a genuine achievement.