Milk Street Digital Class: Croissants with Roxana Jullapat

About this Pre-Recorded Class: You can make a great cake in your sleep. Your friends beg you for your cookie recipes. Pies don’t make you break a sweat. But when it comes to laminated dough—the secret to croissants, danishes, kouign-amann and all your other favorites from the pastry case—it’s a whole different story. You’re not alone: even confident bakers are thrown off course by this 301-level process. The butter block, the many rounds of rolling and chilling and the challenge of baking them in a standard oven—it all seems designed to confound the home cook. Roxana Jullapat, founder of Los Angeles’ beloved Friends and Family bakery, is here to take the mystery out of laminated dough. Join her for a two-day pre-recorded Mini-Intensive where you’ll level up your baking confidence. Class one: We start from scratch. You’ll get an exhaustive explanation of every ingredient, from the ideal protein content of the flour to the best brand of butter to the grind of the salt—because it all matt