Christmas croissant

What better way to start Christmas Day than with specially created croissants?

Each weekday, customers can watch the pastry chefs making these croissants - as well as their homemade-style pies, celebration cakes, pastries and cruffins - through an oversize bakehouse window, one of the largest in the state.

The Banksia Bakehouse team believe that while travel to France and French Polynesia is off the cards, a good croissanterie is an in-demand hometown destination, complete with good local coffee too, or perhaps a chocolat chaud (hot choccy)?

The team perfected their croissant recipe over 15 months of testing different styles, and by combining quality ingredients, time and a texture that’s “just right”, they have created a croissant with a crisp outer shell with fluffy texture inside. Et la voilà!

Many of Banksia Bakehouse’s croissant fillings are inspired by sweet treats from near and far: local Australian jams, pavlova and lamington, American lemon meringue pie, S’mores, and England’s traditional fruit mince. There are also savoury croissants including France’s croque monsieur, with more in the planning stage. The result? Croissants that offer ‘travel by tastebuds’.

Convinced? Where can you find these treats?

The new Banksia Bakehouse in Sydney’s CBD is vying for the title of best croissanterie in Sydney with their unique and oh-so-incredibly-light, flaky and buttery croissants.

Each month, the bakehouse’s small team of experienced pastry chefs create two new croissant varieties to join their traditional-style plain and almond croissants in the uber-long glass display. All are made using high quality and mostly local ingredients, including Sydney’s  Pepe Saya butter  (one of the secrets of their delicious croissants is adding a little more butter than is traditionally used).

In December, of course, the croissants have a Christmas theme.

There's a mince pie croissant filled with orange peel, sultanas and cranberries and decorated with butter shortbread stars, and a pavlova croissant with a mango coconut curd filling and topping of mango coconut curd, desiccated coconut, fresh strawberries and meringue kisses (see above).

Wonder what they will dream up for New Year?

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