Cronut®, the famous pastry treat, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The croissant and donut hybrid premiered in New York City on May 10, 2013 for Mother’s Day. The flaky, buttery brainchild of chef Dominique Ansel, cronuts are the personification of food porn, a fact documented on Instagram and beyond in untold quantities.
If your wife wants donuts (but you’re French)
According to chef Dominic, his wife was itching to make some delicious donuts. In preparation for her Mother’s Day, the French pastry chef decided to put her own Parisian twist on the classic donut. He began tinkering with recipes and ratios, and after two months and ten variations of his recipe, Cronut® was born.
Cronut® Premier
He added his newly invented pastry to the lineup for Mother’s Day 2013 at his bakery in SoHo, New York, and it sold out in just hours. More importantly, people started posting photos on Instagram. Instagram is the hot new social media app that launched just three years ago. As a result, word of mouth spread faster than butter on hot toast. On the third day he had 150 people lining the sidewalks, waiting for a small four-employee bakery to open. By August, the line he was 300 meters deep, despite the summer heat and rain. Although production has increased, it is still a labor of love and Cronut® continues to sell out daily.
Not just a fried croissant
Chef Dominique doesn’t just make croissants and fry them. First, French pastry chefs took pains to create a new riff on the traditional croissant dough. Each Cronut® has three levels of flavor. That is, sugar coatings, jam filling creams, glazes and decorative elements. Far from an assembly line approach, this process takes three full days. A continuous cycle to ensure fresh Cronut® every day.
Chef Dominique Ansel never repeats the taste of cronuts
Over the last decade, it’s no surprise that Chef Dominique Ansel has created a Cronut® that never repeats. The bakery’s first batch featured Light His Rose Glaze with rose sugar coated rose vanilla, Tahitian vanilla ganache and crystallized rose petals. Since then, without repeating the variety, they have consistently changed the flavor every month. Over 120 flavors in 10 years have created his profile, including Blood Orange Almond, Rice Pudding and Pumpkin, Blueberry Jam and Earl Gray Ganache. A lunatic or a jam-obsessed genius? Perhaps a little bit of both, and thankfully.
How to celebrate Cronut®’s 10th anniversary
The traditional way to celebrate is, of course, to visit Dominic Ansel Bakery in SoHo, New York. However, if cronuts are on your mind, we recommend arriving before opening. That queue is part of the experience. Plus, you might get to meet Chef Dominic in person.
Celebrate at Dominic Ansel Las Vegas
Alternatively, visit Chef Dominique’s newly launched Las Vegas bakery. Dominic Ansel Las Vegasat Caesars Palace. In honor of his 10th anniversary of the Cronut® invention, stop by the roulette table and bet $10 on #10 for a little fun. From there, head to the bakery to sample the latest flavors from Cronut® and Lucky 7 pastries, exclusive to Las Vegas. Likewise, no visit is complete without getting a cookie shot from our unique cookie shot vending robot. Insider Tip: Located at the entrance of the bakery. You can’t miss it, especially when the robotic arm waves hello.
Chef Dominique’s Vegas Ice Cream Truck Pastry Collection
Round out the top three ways to celebrate Cronut® milestones and time your visit to his Las Vegas location in time to enjoy his festive Summer Ice Cream Truck pastry collection, which launches May 18. . Summer ice cream truck delight. Think classic riffs like Creamsicle popsicles. However, it uses orange marmalade and yuzu curd.
Buy a box of Anniversary Cronut® Hall
In keeping with classic Cronut® tradition, the Cronut® Hall Special Anniversary Collection Box is already sold out. Pre-sale sign-ups started on his April 24th, but fans immediately rushed to get their hands on the celebration box. This box includes the most popular flavors of the last decade including Popcorn & Caramel and Blackberry & Poppyseed. However, the website encourages customers to add their name and email address to the “Notify me when available” list at the bottom of the page. product page.
Multiple 10th May Celebrations
The universe works in mysterious ways. As a result, chef Dominique his Ansel and his wife celebrate on May 10th for two reasons he has. Not only is it the anniversary of his Cronut® boom, but it’s also his son’s birthday. Turns out she didn’t have bread in the oven.She has a cute Cronut® and she and Chef Dominique have already welcomed a boy into the world on his special day. Instagram, where chefs sometimes share family videos. And in case you’re wondering – no, he wasn’t named after a beloved pastry.
Celebrate by taking a virtual class with Chef Dominique
Chef’s website offers five virtual classes that can be purchased individually or in bulk. Each lesson is organized into approximately 50 minute step-by-step instructional segments about making pies, brioches, croissants, traditional French dishes, or gluten-free bread. Prices are surprisingly reasonable, only $12 per lesson bundle, but very much in line with Chef Dominic’s success story. His first formal cooking lessons were through a free cooking program designed to teach and engage children from low-income families.
Get one of his cookbooks
If you can’t make it to Chef Dominic’s Bakery at Caesars Palace in Vegas, don’t worry. You can channel all your Cronut® curiosity into your own baking session. “Everyone Can Bake” is not only the chef’s life philosophy, but also the title of his cookbook.admired new york times, butterfly hound, Eater, food & wineand forbes, anyone can bake Paying tribute to his humble roots in the French countryside, he gently lays a stepping stone for novice bakers.
Rent a Quaint Guest House in French Chef Dominique’s Hometown
Those in the upper echelon of Cronut® aficionados can embark on a pastry pilgrimage to Beauvais, France, a working-class town just north of Paris where Chef Dominique grew up. We have a nice guest house. Le Jardin de Marie JeanneIt has a typical French style throughout and boasts a small pond. The perfect setting to linger over a croissant and linger all day, surrounded by soothing lavender-filled garden beds. You’ll probably want to make Chef Dominic inspired shortbread his cookies with a lavender glaze.
Holding a cookie shot glass to commemorate the invention of the Cronut®
Sure, Cronut® is pretty important. I will not deny it. However, there are many other superstars in the chef’s line-up, including his iconic chocolate his chip his cookie shot. edible cup, available on websiteis made with chocolate chip cooking dough and is the perfect way to enjoy milk and cookies.
Discover Cronut® Personalities
One of the coolest ways to celebrate your big day is also one of the easiest. Visit Chef Dominique’s Instagram page and take the Cronut® personality quiz. Then, if you’re feeling cheeky, you can congratulate him by making a video and share your quiz results using the tag #CronutTurns10.Includes last year’s Cronut® birthday wishes shout outs from celebrities Like comedian Joel McHale Queer Eyes Tan France says he is most likely Sherry Almond Biscotti Cronut®.
This article was written and distributed by Wealth of Geeks Travel.
