Le beau Croissants du Peep

Croissants du Peep add a bit of joy to your Sunday Brunch because nothing is better than making fun of the French. Our perky Peeps ^® playfully poke out of the croissant to wish you and your guests a happy start to your day. Coffee, Croissants du Peep, and the Sunday paper are the perfect combination and an excellent way to start the last day of your weekend. Enjoy them in bed. Peeps are great for picking up the crumbs — not unlike a lint roller.

Ingredients

• 1 package of zee active dry yeast
• 1 cup warm eau (water) (110 degrees F/45 C)
• 3/4 cup evaporated lait (milk)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sal (salt)
• 1/3 cup white sucre (sugar)
• 1 oeuf (egg)
• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup melted beurre (butter)
• 1 cup chilled and diced beurre
• 1 more oeuf but zees one, she eez beaten
• Les Peeps

Directions

1. Een a large bowl, dissolve zee yeast in warm water. Let eet stand until creamy, about 10 minutes. Stir een zee salt, sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup flour and melted butter. Beat to make a smooth batter; set aside.
2. Een a large bowl, cut zee cup of chilled butter eento zee remaining four cups of flour, until zee butter particles are zee size of dried beans. Pour zee yeast batter over zees and carefully turn zee meexture over weeth a spatula to blend, just until all zee flour eez moistened. Cover weeth plastic wrap and refrigerate until she eez well chilled, at least 4 hours. You have up to four days to use thees refrigerated meexture.
3. Turn zee dough out onto a floured surface; press eento compact balls and knead about 6 turns to release zee air bubbles. Divide zee dough into four equal parts. Shape one at a time. Refrigerate zee remaining dough.
4. Roll one part of zee dough on a floured board eento a circle 17 inches een diameter. Weeth a sharp knife or pizza cutter, cut zee circle eento eight equal pie-shaped wedges. Roll zee wedges loosely toward zee point. Shape each roll eento a crescent and place on an ungreased baking sheet. Each roll should be about 1.5 eenches away from zee ozeer so zeey don’t all rise eento one grande croissant mass…unless of course you want to and then absolutely do eet. I’m not sure what zee baking time would be – but hey! Peeps are all about pushing zee boundaries. Write me and let me know how eet worked out.
5. Cover and let zem rise at room temperature until zey’ve almost doubled in size (approximately 2 hours.) While you’re waeeting, preheat zee oven to 325 degrees F.
6. Brush zee croissants weeth beaten egg. Bake een preheated oven for 35 minutes, or unteel zey are golden.
7. Let zem cool
8. Gently leeft part of zee croissant and pop een zee Peep so zee Peep eez peeping out. Shove in as many as you feel are needed to make your Croissant du Peep complete.

Shortcut

Go to Le Costco and buy zee croissants zere – skeep to step huit (8).