Hi Bakers, I decided to do a little baking bread today. I missed 2 bake along and wanted to keep my skills up. I bake whole wheat hamburger buns and whole wheat sandwich everyday bread 🍞.

Well, we survived Croissant Week. 🥐👏 All that lamination, all those butter layers, all that patience. You all showed up and did the hard thing, and I couldn’t be prouder of the folds that came through this kitchen. Now it’s time to let summer all the way in. ☀️🍑 This week we’re baking Brown Butter Peach Cobbler Cinnamon Rolls, and this one’s personal. I’m a South Carolina boy. Down here in the Deep South, peach cobbler isn’t just dessert. It’s a staple and a delicacy both at once. It’s the thing that shows up at the church supper, the Sunday table, and the family reunion, and everybody’s grandmother swears hers is the best. That cobbler is in my bones. 🧡 So I did what I always end up doing. I took something I grew up loving and turned it into something we all already know by heart, the cinnamon roll. Peach cobbler on the inside. Pillowy roll on the outside. Brown butter running through the whole thing. And a streusel top that’ll have your house smelling like a Carolina summer. 🔥🍑 And I’ll be honest, this one came out of my daughter Payton. She’s always challenging me, always poking at me to take it one step further. Don’t play it safe, Dad. So here we are. Cobbler in a cinnamon roll. That’s a Payton bake if I ever made one. ⭐ No fresh peaches where you are yet? Don’t worry. Frozen and canned work great, and I’ll walk you through every swap this week so nobody gets left out. Here’s the recipe so you can look it over before Saturday: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/brown-butter-peach-cobbler-cinnamon-rolls The sourdough version: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/sourdough-brown-butter-peach-cobbler-cinnamon-rolls?utm_source=skool&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=recipe-share We bake together Saturday morning. 🇺🇸🍑

Well, here we are. Bake day. And it landed on the Fourth of July, so let’s make something beautiful today. 🇺🇸 Most of you have your dough or your butter blocks resting in the fridge right now, which means the hard part is behind you. Today’s the payoff. We shape, we proof, we bake. Here’s the game plan: 🥐 Pull your dough, roll it out long, cut your triangles, and shape ⏳ Proof until puffy and jiggly. This is the make-or-break step, so don’t rush it. French folks, you’re looking at a couple hours. Sourdough, yours runs longer, 3 to 5, so be patient with it. 🔥 Egg wash, then bake to a deep mahogany. Pale is underbaked. Let that color build. Now, two things about the heat. 🎇 First, the real one. This heat wave across the country is dangerous, not just uncomfortable. Drink your water, stay cool, and check on the older folks and neighbors around you. Your bread can wait. You come first. Take care of yourselves out there. 🇺🇸 Second, that same heat is sitting in your kitchen. Your final proof has to stay under 78F or the butter melts and weeps out before the croissants ever hit the oven. Find the coolest room in the house. If your kitchen’s running warm, the fridge is still your friend, use it to hold the proof steady. Keep a close eye today, because in this heat they can over-proof faster than you’d think. This thread is home base all day. 🎆 Post your progress right here. Your shaped croissants, your proof, your first tray out of the oven, your crumb shots when you cut in. And if you hit a snag, butter leaking, dough fighting you, proof looking off, drop it in the comments and I’ll walk you through it. I’m around all day. Let’s bake, everybody. 🇺🇸🥐 Perfection is not required. Progress is. Henry ⭐🔥🇺🇸

Pick yours now, because the prep starts before the bake does. I get the same question every time we laminate: "Am I ready for this?" Here's the honest answer. There are two versions in the Pantry, and one of them is built for exactly the baker who's never done this. 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝟭: 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻-𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗽. 350g of flour, 113g of frozen butter you grate right in on a box grater. No butter block. It's one loaf in a 9x5 pan, and it bakes low and slow at 375. This is lamination for the rest of us. If you've never folded butter into dough in your life, this is the one. You'll still get real flaky layers, plus sourdough tang as the bonus. 👉 https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/sourdough-croissant-bread 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝟮: 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸-𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝘂𝗻. 500g of flour, a 250g butter block, three letter folds that build 27 layers, spread across three days. That's 50% butter to flour. That ratio is why they shatter when you bite them, and it's also why they'll test your patience. If you want the real Parisian croissant, this is it. Go in knowing it's a project. 👉 https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/classic-french-croissants Nobody here loses points for picking the loaf. Finishing a bake you can actually finish beats quitting on one that scared you off. Pick the road that fits your weekend. Now the one thing both roads live or die on: the butter. 🧈Cold butter makes layers. When solid butter hits the oven, the water in it flashes to steam and pushes the dough apart into sheets. Warm butter just melts into the dough and you get a dense, greasy loaf with no layers. That's the whole game. 🎯The target is butter that bends without cracking. On the French recipe I give you the window: 13 to 16°C, about 55 to 60°F. Too cold and it cracks and tears your dough. Too warm and it leaves easy fingerprints and smears. You want it cool, firm, and pliable, same firmness as your dough.

Not as flaky and delicate as what real croissant dough is going to give us this weekend, but honestly? Excellent practice. And these little guys came out beautiful. Henry ⭐🔥