Puff Pastry Croissants with Cheese
Start your day with a refined French-style breakfast. In France, mornings often begin with a cup of coffee and a fragrant, crisp croissant. There are many small bakeries where fresh pastries can be bought for breakfast every morning. But we will bake puff pastry croissants with cheese ourselves.
Updated : 18 March, 2026
Easy
About 30 min.
Ingredients
500 grams
Puff pastry
Brushing
1
Eggs
Filling
200 grams
Hard cheese
Table
Table of volume measurements:
- teaspoon - 5 ml
- dessert spoon - 10 ml
- tablespoon - 20 ml
- glass - 200 ml
Preparation
Step 1
How do you make puff pastry croissants with cheese? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Traditionally, croissants are made with puff pastry without yeast, but you can also use yeasted puff pastry. Take the dough out of the freezer about 2 hours before you start and let it thaw completely. You can also make your own homemade dough.
Step 2
Turn the oven on to 180°C (350°F) in advance. Cut the cheese into not very long sticks. The length of the sticks should not exceed the width of the widest part of the dough triangles. You can use any cheese. They will turn out tasty both with a regular simple fermented cheese and with mozzarella.
Step 3
I usually use dough in sheets, but in this case it is better to use dough rolled into a log: you do not even need to roll it out. It is enough just to unroll it. The width and length of the dough will be just right. Using a regular knife or a pizza cutter, cut the dough into triangles. You will get about 9-10 triangles.
Step 4
Place a stick of cheese on the edge of the widest part of the triangle and roll the dough up from the wide side toward the narrow tip. The cheese should not stick out beyond the dough, but stay inside the roll. It is very important to twist in the edges of the roll. This is necessary so that the cheese does not leak out of the croissants onto the baking sheet while baking.
Step 5
Shape the rest of the croissants in the same way.
Step 6
Beat the egg with a fork or whisk until smooth.
Step 7
Place the croissants on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, leaving space between them. While baking, the pastries increase 2-3 times in size and, if placed too close together, may stick to one another. Brush the pastries with the beaten egg. Put the baking sheet into the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes and bake the croissants until golden brown. The exact time depends on your oven.
Step 8
Serve the finished puff pastry croissants with cheese right away, while they are still hot. Enjoy your meal!
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