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Vienna's Kifli

Prep Time3 hours 30 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Course: Baking
Cuisine: Austrian
Keyword: Kifli

Ingredients

For the batter

  • 100 g Flour
  • 100 g Milk
  • 0.5 g Dry Yeast

Main dough

  • Batter
  • 400 g Flour
  • 200 ml Milk
  • 3 g Dry yeast desolved with 20ml warm milk
  • 10 g Salt
  • 20 g Sugar
  • 60 g Melted Butter

Instructions

For the butter

  • Pour the yeast into the milk and stir with the whisk. Add the flour and stir well. Let stand well covered for 12 hours.
  • Weigh the remaining flour for the main dough and add the other ingredients. Mix with the dough hook at a low setting for 30 seconds, then knead at the intermediate setting for 4 minutes. Cover and let it rise for 2 hours. Duting that time make 4 "stretch & fold" to develope good gluten net.
  • After that , take the dough out from the bowl. Then roll out into a large, round plate. Divide with a dough card into 8-10 equal " triangular pieces".
    Now roll up the triangles from the broad side and shape them into croissants. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and brush with milk. Leave the croissants in the oven at 40 ° C for 1 hour.
  • Take out the tray and preheat the oven to 225 ° C. When the temperature is reached, set the oven to 200 ° C, insert the tray and bake the croissants for 15-20minutes in a fan oven.
  • Brush with milk immediately after baking. When the croissants have cooled, you can freeze them well. You can then defrost them in the oven at 100 ° C in 10 minutes in the morning, they taste like freshly baked!