6 croissants going stale. Can I do anything with them?

[Jahan]

Any ideas appreciated.

ham, cheese, tomato oven backed for a few minutes..no one will notice!! x

cut in halves and spread with nutella, sandwich together and warm up in oven...yum yum yum

oh, of course Nutella.... advertisers will be happy that adverts are paying off!!

mmm all sounds good.
Can I take MaryAnn's Nutella idea and then make a bread and butter pudding?
Would that work?

I have made a chocolate bread and butter pudding before, so it should work. I resisted buying any nutella today as it's almost Lent and I'm giving up chocolate...

"Can I take MaryAnn's Nutella idea and then make a bread and butter pudding?"

NIgella express has a recipe specifically for stale croissants - its essentially bread and butter pudding but with a caramel sauce.

how can they have gone stale in the first place ? I'd have eaten them long ago ...

And the Nigella recipe is quick! I have it here if you want it.

was about to suggest the Nigella recipe - looks the scrummiest thing I've seen for ages.

I tried it and it was nice but not wow - but I think I wasn't brave enough about caramelising the sugar. I'm going to try again though!

Yes please to the Nigella recipe. Hope it works with Nutella stuffed croissants! [Big fat naughty emoticon]

Sorry. The croissants will be very stale now . Anyhoo....
2 stale croissants
100g caster sugar
2 x 15ml tablespoons water
125ml double cream
125ml full fat milk
2 x 15ml tablespoon bourbon
2 eggs, beaten.

1. Preheat oven to 180 2)Tear croissants and put in small gratin dish capacity 500ml
2. Put caster sugar and water into saucepan and swirl to dissolve and put over med/high heat.
3. Caramelise the mix by letting it bubble without stirring unitl it turns a deep amber colour. 3-5 mins
4. Turn heat down low and add cream ignoring spluttering. Whisk in milk and bourbon. Keep whisking over low heat to get rid of any solid toffee bits. Take off heat and keep whisking and add beaten eggs. Pour mixture over croissants and leave for 10 mins to steep if very stale .
5. Place in oven for 20 mins.

Stale croissants make absolutely gorgeous crumbs - for topping things like cauliflower cheese, or for frying fish. Once you've ground them up (in blender or similar) they keep for months in airtight tupperware.