Cronuts are my favorite treat of all time, especially when they’re stuffed. A bakery in my city used to be my favorite place to get them, but now that they’ve become a popular chain, the quality of their cronuts has gone down. For instance, you can take three bites into one and not experience any filling until your fourth bite. Furthermore, ever since I started baking sourdough about a year and a half ago, the flavor of commercial yeast is just a little lackluster and cheap tasting to me. At $5 a pop, I decided to not only figure out how to make them myself but to figure out how to make them sourdough.
Behold, the sourdough cronut! This recipe produced 15 donuts, 15 donut holes, and 5 cinnamon knot twists. Other than the cinnamon knots I made from the scraps of the dough, I did a few vanilla buttercream stuffed cronuts with a dark chocolate glaze, blueberry jam stuffed cronuts with a lemon glaze, and whipped dark chocolate ganache stuffed cronuts with a peanut butter frosting.
I’ll post the various recipes below in the comments. Happy baking!
You can’t go posting that level of deliciousness willy nilly!
You’re just asking to be kidnapped and forced into baking.
Firm_Elk9522
I would do filthy, filthy things for those cronuts.
bitchihaveavagina
THE BLUEBERRY JAM 🤤🤤 My favorite flavor ever! These look SO delicious! Did you make the jam yourself?
Past_Championship896
Holy fuck
bolinhadeovo90
And they’re sourdough so they’re GUUUT HEALTHYYY
-Sui-
Do you need a roommate? Or three? I could bring my kids to help taste test new recipes. I wouldn’t even charge you anything for our services. In fact, I’d pay you for this opportunity.
Fuck, these look so damn good. I’m drooling over here…
SunGlobal2744
Omg what a labor of love
bigyellowgummybear
These look incredible. I just made sourdough brownies for the first time last week and they really good. I’m going to have to make these next!
QuietZealousideal909
Witchcraft!….. never tasted so good🤤🖤 I’m debating getting out of bed to feed my starter for this but it’s midnight.
KnitPurlProfiterole
I needed to see this before it was too late to make noise in my kitchen, LOL
Bug_Kiss
Never heard of it. Now I gotta have it.
I’m generally not this way.
Alwaysbadhairday
My god they look good. I want to but my hand through the screen and get one.
TastyTowel9838
Food 🌽
rbellizio
Those looks so 🤤
blurrylegsMcgee
These look 🔥! Amazing work OP! Out of curiosity what brand flour and butter did you use?
Gahlic1
They’re gorgeous!!!
afrizzleuchiha
Hey friend ………
lucentweeping
These are so beautiful it feels unfair. Like I didn’t deserve to see this. Wow.
Direct-Inspector7129
Absolutely filthy. Recipe please
t-pat1991
I’ve never seen anything like that and holy shit am I hungry!
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Cronuts are my favorite treat of all time, especially when they’re stuffed. A bakery in my city used to be my favorite place to get them, but now that they’ve become a popular chain, the quality of their cronuts has gone down. For instance, you can take three bites into one and not experience any filling until your fourth bite. Furthermore, ever since I started baking sourdough about a year and a half ago, the flavor of commercial yeast is just a little lackluster and cheap tasting to me. At $5 a pop, I decided to not only figure out how to make them myself but to figure out how to make them sourdough.
Behold, the sourdough cronut! This recipe produced 15 donuts, 15 donut holes, and 5 cinnamon knot twists. Other than the cinnamon knots I made from the scraps of the dough, I did a few vanilla buttercream stuffed cronuts with a dark chocolate glaze, blueberry jam stuffed cronuts with a lemon glaze, and whipped dark chocolate ganache stuffed cronuts with a peanut butter frosting.
I’ll post the various recipes below in the comments. Happy baking!
Recipe:
425g bread flour
6g kosher salt
64g granulated sugar
220g sourdough starter
150g cold water
1 egg white, large
112g unsalted butter, softened
15g heavy cream
Rise time at 78°f:
7 hours (until doubled)
Proof time at 70°f:
7-8 hours
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Method:
https://www.four-magazine.com/recipes/exclusive-the-original-cronut-recipe/
Absolute queen I am feeding the starter right now
Jesus christ
You can’t go posting that level of deliciousness willy nilly!
You’re just asking to be kidnapped and forced into baking.
I would do filthy, filthy things for those cronuts.
THE BLUEBERRY JAM 🤤🤤 My favorite flavor ever! These look SO delicious! Did you make the jam yourself?
Holy fuck
And they’re sourdough so they’re GUUUT HEALTHYYY
Do you need a roommate? Or three? I could bring my kids to help taste test new recipes. I wouldn’t even charge you anything for our services. In fact, I’d pay you for this opportunity.
Fuck, these look so damn good. I’m drooling over here…
Omg what a labor of love
These look incredible. I just made sourdough brownies for the first time last week and they really good. I’m going to have to make these next!
Witchcraft!….. never tasted so good🤤🖤
I’m debating getting out of bed to feed my starter for this but it’s midnight.
I needed to see this before it was too late to make noise in my kitchen, LOL
Never heard of it. Now I gotta have it.
I’m generally not this way.
My god they look good. I want to but my hand through the screen and get one.
Food 🌽
Those looks so 🤤
These look 🔥! Amazing work OP! Out of curiosity what brand flour and butter did you use?
They’re gorgeous!!!
Hey friend ………
These are so beautiful it feels unfair. Like I didn’t deserve to see this. Wow.
Absolutely filthy. Recipe please
I’ve never seen anything like that and holy shit am I hungry!
That’s a nice delight to wake up to
I love you.
Wowowow