Also known as Le Crookie, my mum first spotted these on YouTube Shorts when they went viral (even though, you know, she totally doesn’t watch YouTube). She showed them to me, and let me tell you, they looked so good I was practically licking the screen. You won’t be able to resist the warm, flaky croissant combined with the gooey, sweet cookie filling. We’ve given you a recipe for homemade cookie dough, but you could use shop-bought cookie dough to make these even easier.
Makes 4
50g cold salted butter
50g light brown sugar
50g caster sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
130g plain flour
4 croissants (stale ones work too)
To drizzle:
shop-bought chocolate or caramel sauce
1 tablespoon icing sugar
To serve (optional):
ice cream
1. Preheat your oven to 200°C for a conventional oven or 180°C for a fan oven.
2. Line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper.
3. To make the cookie dough, grate the cold butter into a large mixing bowl using the large holes on a box grater. Add the light brown sugar and caster sugar and beat together with a wooden spoon.
4. Crack the egg into the bowl, then add the vanilla and mix again.
5. Add the flour, then gently stir until you have a smooth cookie dough.
6. To prepare your croissants, lay them flat on your chopping board and put your hand on top to steady it. Use a serrated bread knife in a gentle sawing motion to cut each one horizontally through the centre, but not all the way through – you want to create a pocket for the cookie dough in the middle.
7. Stuff the inside of each croissant with a generous amount of cookie dough. Put a little extra cookie dough on top of each croissant for maximum cookie goodness. Put the stuffed croissants on the lined baking tray.
8. Put the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes, until the cookie dough is golden and baked through.
9. Using oven gloves, carefully remove the tray from the oven and put it on a wire cooling rack. Let the crookies cool for a few minutes.
10. Drizzle the crookies with some shop-bought chocolate or caramel sauce. Put the icing sugar in a small fine mesh sieve, then hold it over the croissants and gently tap the side to sift the sugar over the croissants to give them a light dusting.
11. Try this with a scoop of ice cream for an even more indulgent treat.
From Now You’re Cooking! by Jolene and Lily Mae Cox
