With my Mom (the Blog Monster) around, many leftovers have come back to life. Just the other day I was complaining that I didn’t have any space for the chicken stock I had made (as I’ve said before, fridge space is the most coveted real estate in my house) and so I ransacked the freezer looking for space for the 3 liters I had just made. In the process, I found, frozen and forgotten for many months, three containers of ham and pea soup, three large bags of home made dumplings, morcon (a Filipino chicken roll stuffed with vegetables and sausages), and filling for some chicken pot pie.
In a fit of frustration I told my Mom I was going to get rid of them. They’d been in the freezer for months and if they hadn’t been eaten by now, then maybe they weren’t worth eating. “They’ll taste bad! I’m going to get rid of it” I told her.
“No… don’t. I can make something out of these.” She insisted.
With a sigh, I gave in but being a refrigerator tyrant that I am, I gave her a deadline of five days to do what she wanted with the leftovers and then I’d toss everything out.
Of course, a few days later, not only did I find myself eating my words, I also found myself eating all the leftovers!
Day 1 – Mom sauteed some chorizo and added this to the ham and pea soup.
Day 2 – Mom made some pancit molo with the bags of dumplings and the chicken pot pie filling went to my brother who had them on a sandwich.
Day 3 – The Chicken Morcon was pan fried with a lovely tomato based sauce and served for dinner.
I did my best to snub the “made over” dishes but the oohs and aahhs and yumms of my family made me cave in.
Anyway, these Almond Croissants are filled with an almond cream made with some creme patissiere, topped with more of the almond cream and sliced almonds and then baked until golden. To serve, they are dusted with some icing sugar. When reading about these gorgeous pastries, I discovered that they were originally invented as a way to use up old croissants.
So you can imagine that I immediately thought of my Mom – who manages to make even the old look and taste better than brand new…
Croissants aux Amandes
Almond Croissants
- 10 grams ground almonds
- 100 grams creme patissiere (see below)
- 70 grams caster sugar
- 60 grams butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 40 grams flour
- 70 grams sliced almonds, for topping
- 5 croissants
- Icing sugar to dust the croissants
- Using a stand mixer or electric mixer, cream the almonds, creme patissiere, sugar, butter, egg yolks and flour. This will take around 3 to 5 minutes, making sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl once in a while. Beat until light and fluffy
- Slice the croissants horizontally and spread around 3 heaping spoonfuls of the almond mixture. Cover with the top of the croissant and spread another 3 heaping spoonfuls of the almond mixture.
- Top the croissants with the sliced almonds and bake in a pre-heated oven at 190c for around 10 minutes.
- To serve, dust with icing sugar.
On the Thermomix
Place the ground almonds, creme patissiere, sugar, butter, egg yolks and flour in the thermomix bowl. Mix on speed 6 for 10 seconds until light and fluffy. Follow from number 2 above.
Creme Patissiere
- 250 ml milk
- 50 grams sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 egg
- 1/2 vanilla bean, scrapped
- Heat the 200 ml of the milk with the vanilla beans (and pod) and bring to a boil in a sauce pan.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the sugar, cornstarch, egg and 50 ml milk.
- When the milk has come to a boil, pour a little of the hot milk into the sugar/cornstarch mixture and then whisk this thoroughly, then pour the rest of the hot milk into the bowl (remove the vanilla pod).
- Now pour the milk mixture back into the sauce pan and heat, constantly whisking until the mixture thickens, around 5 minutes. Make sure to whisk at the bottom of the bowl so that the mixture does not catch and burn.
- Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
On Thermomix
- Put all the ingredients into the thermomix bowl and cook at 90c for 6 minutes on speed 4. Remove the vanilla pod and allow to cool.
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It just brings out the creativity in people. The almond croissants look delicious. Trissa you make me want to buy a thermomix. Everything is just so much easier with one.
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Could you please give the english version of ml and gram measurements?
Wow your mum is amazing – can i adopt her please?? Everything sounds so yummy my first time round dinners are nowhere near as good as her leftovers!!
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Oh. My. Goodness. These almond croissants are to die for! I love almond croissants and my husband even more so. I’m for sure going to surprise him his weekend with these insanely luscious pastries. I often make sandwiches out of day-old croissants but this is even better. Thanks for sharing!
P.S. Your Mom is a leftover genius! Can we hire her to get us out of our freezer-fatigue too? 🙂
Wow these Almond Croissants look so delicious.I have never heard this name before so I would like to make and taste this recipe.First I have to collect all ingredients of this recipe.
Oh perfect! Just became addicted to the buttery almond croissants from my neighbourhood patisserie, but now I can try my own. Thanks! Your Mum sounds amazing by the way. What a superstar.
Waw!! Your mom is like super woman!! And she is totally right!!
These almond & almond patisserie crème croissants are looking DIVINE!! You can find them in better patiseries here in Brussels & in some Moroccan bakeries too!
MMMMMMMMMM,…FAB food!
Don’t know if I have the patience to make croissants from scratch, but I’m definitely going to be trying this with some fresh croissants from our cornerstore. Looks delish!
my mouth is watering this looks SO YUMMY trissa xx
The photo with the sugar dust is perfect 🙂 ….and the croissants must be smelling buttery and almond fragrant. Awesome!
Genius! This sounds amazing!
it sounds like mother does know best….I am in awe of natural cooks, theyre the ones who truly inspire me……thanks for sharing that great make over for the croissant!
oh moms…my mom’s like that too, she doesn’t want to throw away food and would remind me not to make too much or finish everything so there’ll be no leftovers.. 🙂
…I want some of those almond croissant, they look so delicious!
I can’t believe how amazing that looks! I love croissants but they are my muffin top’s mortal enemy!
I want to eat everything you post–I love almont croissants and would never even attempt to make them at home. Not you, though!
All your mom’s “recycled” dishes sound great, too. I would have eaten the morcon fried, even without sauce. Moms always surprise with what they can come up with, don’t they?
OMG…These almond croissants are looking delicious. I got water in my mouth, love at taste that.
you make it like the bakery’s … very gorgeous!
Gasp! They look so good, Trissa. When am I coming over for morning tea to try them?! 😛
awesome! I have been thinking about this dish for quite some time. Even thinking of making my own croissants but then I got real lazy! 😀
What a star your mum is in the kitchen, reinventing those dishes into something new!
I know what you mean about fridge space. We have two fridge/freezers, PLUS a separate tuckerbox freezer. Excessive you think? Perhaps. But they are all full … embarrassingly.
I’ve always loved how almond croissants have been transformed from day old croissant. I’ve only made them myself once. Typically croissants don’t manage to find themselves in my house still on day 2!
MMMMhhhhh, I love this very much Trissa. I used to make it a lot whenever I have leftover croissant. Thanks for the reminder, it’s about time to make it again.
How does the Vanila pod survive the Thermomix? It would be shredded at speed 4. You must put the machine in Reverse, no? Sounds sooooo delicious. YUMMMMMMM Love almonds. Love croissants, love pastry cream.
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Valerie
Oh, Mums… aren’t they just the best? Even when they’re being too Mum-ish.
i hate wasting foods, and i’m so impressed with how you rescued your leftovers. your croissants look PERFECT. 🙂
Ahhh, if only my mother was that inventive. Our family leftovers would just come back as…reheated, soggy leftovers!
Mind you , things like ribollita, almond croissants, pain perdu and bread and butter pudding are wonderful reinventions of leftovers =)
can I just tell you Trissa. This is one of my most favourite recipe. I’m so surprised to read that this idea originated from people wanting to use up left over croissants. I’ll be making this on Sunday, YUM
Mum is usually right, aren’t they? You are making me crave for almond croissant. Cruel!
This looks like some pretty delicious leftovers!
this story reminds me of my mom too, but funny how we turn out to be just like our moms, since I have become a left-over queen myself too!
Your pictures are absolutely stunning. Look at that icing sugar falling! love it!
These look soooo good! I love croissants and with almonds – perfect! I’m probably a bit like your mom – I hate throwing leftovers and always try to do something with them. You obviously inherited your creativity from your mom!
They look even better than plain croissants – a star in their own right.
trissa! i love this. i just ate but now i’m in the mood for one of these
I can relate with having a freezer full of things like my homemade dumplings, there’s still Mum’s cabbage rolls and many many mystery bags of god-knows-what. I really ought to start labelling things before freezing them.
I’ve never made croissants into something such as these gorgeous babies you’ve shown here. Beautiful!
These look AMAZING! I am a huge fan of almonds. To me, this looks even better than a pain au chocolat, and that’s saying SOMETHING! 😉
Trissa, your photos have showcased the croissants very well! As for the fridge overload-it is a trait all mothers share and a trait that gets passed down to daughters!! I know because I too have become a fridge monster!
Your mum is very resourceful…like most mothers are! Love what you did to the croissant…almost like an extreme makeover! Delicious pics my darling!
I love leftovers. It just brings out the creativity in people. The almond croissants look delicious. Trissa you make me want to buy a thermomix. Everything is just so much easier with one.
My mum is in town as well and I was in the same situation – suddenly there’s so much food left, right and centre! Oh and Trissa? I love you for posting this recipe – I’ve been itching to make almond croissant since forever and now I can!! THANK YOU!!!!!
oooh, I Loved the almond croissant post! so beautiful these are, with the almonds just toasted….! Shall have to source one on my way to work! icing sugar completes the picture…yours are great!
Yum these look so delicious! I love the “snowy” photo with the icing sugar!
My mom does that at my house too but she never makes the deadline and I throw everything away. I love, love this recipe.
I love the way every post now has Thermomix instructions to go…and I love almonds and croissants! I love the snow of the icing sugar too
Wow you mom sounds like quite the woman. And you are impressive to be able to make all those extras. I can’t tell you how many tired nights I wished I had leftovers in the fridge or freezer. Now these croissants…they look divine and I wouldn’t even mind if they were made from old croissants. Almonds and cream are an unbeatable combination :).
These look absolutely divine. So authentic, straight out of a cafe on champs élysées…
Moms are just great that way…they have a use for everything! Although our mother is such a hoarder that she has an extra freezer in the basement! But funnily enough she LOVES almond croissants and so do we! These look just divine. Wishing we had some right now to accompany our coffees!
Your mom sounds like a super mommy 😀
This recipe looks incredibly lovely, but unfortunately i never have left over croissants 😉
*kisses* HH