Episode 4: Homemade Snack Croissants

Tonight will be our first time attending an FRG (Family Readiness Group) meeting.  These meetings are for spouses, family members, and close acquaintances of soldiers.  The meeting is to promote unit and army support of the families and to create a network of family members to support each other during deployments.  Over the years FRG has developed a reputation for a place where wives (or husbands) try and wear their spouses rank and belittle or boss other spouses around.  Lucky for me, I do wear the same rank as my wife.  :)  For the meeting tonight my wife asked me to make croissant snack rolls so I chose to make smores croissant.  Heres to using food to manipulate the other spouses (insert evil laugh)

Recipe: Smores Croissant

Yields around 50 rolls

Dough:
2 Packages active dry yeast
3/4 cup warm water
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup shortening
4 cups all-purpose flour

Start by dissolving the yeast in warm water.  Stir in sugar, salt, eggs and shortening.  Mix with a Kitchenaid mixer or by hand until smooth.  (Should begin to feel and look like croissant dough that you get from the store).  Knead dough, then cover and let it rise in a warm place for 1-1 1/2 hours (or until double in size).

Punch down dough.  Divide the dough in half, roll first half into 12 inch circle.  Cut into wedges using a pizza cutter.  Continue reading below for instructions to make them into smores!

Smores:
50 pieces of chocolate
6 graham crackers crushed
100 mini marshmallows

Take one wedge of dough and place a piece of chocolate in the middle.  Add one marshmallow on each side of the chocolate.  Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of graham crackers on top of chocolate.  Roll up croissant starting with the wide end.  Place smore croissant on baking sheet lined with parchment or wax paper.

After all croissants have been topped and rolled, cover and let rise for 1 hour.

Bake at 400 degrees F for 12-15 or until golden brown.