What’s a kouign-amann you ask? It’s a sweet, buttery, crispy, soft pastry guaranteed to make you forget about your worries for a blissful moment in time while your endorphins react to the explosion of comfort in your mouth. Okay, maybe I’m getting a little carried away, but they were really really good!
You can find the recipe we used here: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/kouign-amann
Eric’s month to choose the recipe and he was flip-floppin’ over this one. Said it was something he wanted to try but it looked hard. So, with great motherly wisdom I said, “Isn’t that one of the reasons we are doing this, to challenge ourselves?”. Hey, I have my moments.
Kouign-amann tastes like a sweet croissant. The sugar and butter carmelize and create a crispy flaky shell enclosing a soft sweet dough. That’s how mine turned out and I didn’t even do the recipe correctly so I can only imagine how good it tastes when you do all the steps. There are a lot of fold- roll-and-chill-the-dough steps. Apparently I skipped the whole middle section, a couple fold-roll-chill’s, so my butter wasn’t as incorporated into the dough as it should have been. If you compare the pics of my pastry vs Eric’s, you’ll see that his rose more and looks flakier. Mine is flat on top, and I believe that is due to me missing those couple steps. When I do this again, I’m going to print out the recipe and number it to help me stay on track.
I made marks on the parchment paper for butter block. flip it before putting butter on. 
Finished butter block 
6×6 dough ready for the freezer.
Roll and fold 
Roll and fold again.. 
…and again. And a couple more times too
Trim to make rectangle 
Cut in 12 even squares 
Some of them left butter when I turned, but too late to re-roll 
Dusted with sugar, folded and in pan
My finished product 
I added some diced strawberries…very tasty! 
Eric’s, captured in the morning sun
Both of ours got very dark on the bottom, but they didn’t taste burnt. If you go to the Bon Appetit recipe you’ll see theirs are very dark on the bottom also, so if you make them don’t worry about it. It’s just the butter and sugar caramelizing for your eating pleasure. Who won this month? Well, I hate to say Eric, but I guess since he followed the directions he gets the trophy this month. But mine still tasted wonderful!!!
Dana, they both looked delicious; but I liked the design yours had. :o)
Well, you’re not a perfectionist either 🙂
Very true! Saves a lot of stress! :o)
Looks amazing!
It truly was!