Crazy Cool in the Kitchen: Croissant Crazy

Is there anything better than the taste of flaky and buttery croissants? Whether you are using it as a medium to get a lunchmeat sandwich in you stomach for a quick lunch or just cream cheese and jelly for a fast breakfast, how versatile croissants can be while being completely delicious. What if I told you that the Hy-Vee Season's magazine came out with even more ideas to incorporate croissants so that you could enjoy them for every meal?

Lucky for you, if you don't live near a Hy-Vee and recieve this magazine than I have taken a couple pictures for you to enjoy croissants in maybe a different way that you have never thought of.

We had one of our Crazy Cool throw down's at work on Tuesday and we decide both decided because everything in the magazine looked so delicious and our croissants are amazing that the theme would be "Croissants." Looking through the magazine the pictures just make you hungry. I decided on doing the Mini Baklava Croissants because they were easy and sounded like a sweet treat for a Tuesday afternoon.

The recipe was my kind of recipe, only 5 ingredients that most of the ingredients were already in the cupboard, and they only take about 10 minutes to prep the filling, and 10 minutes to warm up in the oven.

I sliced the croissants in 3 layers, made up the nutty filling with walnuts, cinnamon, cloves, and honey, filled the croissants, and warmed them up.

Since we were feeding a crowd I made up 6 large croissants but I have included the recipe at the bottom of the page for any party you will be having.

Don't those look like a fun treat? You could actually have time to have dessert during the week? Or what a fun after school treat?

After I picked my croissant recipe of choice, Anne looked through the magazine and saw something that caught her eye. Two of her favorites put together on a croissant? Could this even be happening? It was basically a caprese salad pizza? Fresh ingredients like a caprese salad, but toasting the croissant and adding a little local Gino's pizza sauce and this was a hit.

Yes there is a couple more ingredients but it was ohhh so delicious. All you need is some croissants, and cut them in half. Toast the croissants in the oven at 350 degrees for about 5-8 minutes. Then you just add a small amount of pizza sauce, fresh mozzarella cheese, halved cherry tomatoes, little bit of fresh basil, and top with olive oil and freshly cracked salt and pepper. Yup, it's as easy as it sounds and not only would this be filling enough for dinner but it would be the perfect appetizer for a party.

Well how adorable are they? They are even more delicious than they look if that's even possible!

So as we took our two recipes to the customers, we had a winner, Anne's Croissant Pizzas won the majority of the votes. Even though I'm not a good loser, I knew that the pizzas were absolutely amazing and I was a super big fan of them. I will definately be putting them on my family's menu next week.