When faced with a pastry case full of croissants and pains au chocolat, I will choose the pains au chocolat every time.
Don't get me wrong, croissants are wonderful, but they're not filled with chocolate.
During the recent snowstorms, I found myself craving pain au chocolat — the craving was actually more specific than that: I wanted to sit at my window and watch the snowflakes swirl and twirl while sipping strong coffee and eating pain au chocolat.
What I did not want was to spend hours making a yeasted pastry dough and all that entails. So I did the next best thing under the circumstances. I opened my freezer and pulled out box of puff pastry.
Puff pastry, though similar, isn't exactly the same, but it worked great in a pinch.
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