Croissants

The Croissant is a crescent shaped variety of bread which has been around since the Middle Ages.  It is a delicate pastry made of buttery layered dough.  Croissants are made by layering yeast dough with butter and rolling and folding the dough several times in order to produce a light, fluffy crust.  Sometimes up to 100 layers of dough are used, so making croissants by hand requires immense skill and patience and can take days to complete.

 

 

Most Croissants are eaten without added butter, but they can also be filled with cheeses, meat, spinach or an assortment of other fillings.

A typical automated croissant line consists of: 

• Ingredient Handling
• Mixing System
• Make-Up Equipment - Laminated dough line
• Conveyors
• Auto-Bake System
• Final Proofer
• Oven
• Depanner
• Cooler
• Packaging