The ultimate Swiss bread: croissant dough is cut into strips and placed on top to create a lovely, ultra-crisp stripe, with vanilla and chocolate flavors for the traditional version, and coconut rock for the more exotic version.
Total completion time
Completion time
1h30
Cooking time
30 minutes
Rest period
15h15
Techniques taught
Swiss bread assembly
Making croissant dough with visible flakes
Making a coconut rocher
Decorating a pastry
Making puff pastry strips
Using a brush to brush on
Making an egg-free cream
Garnishing a pastry
Baking a pastry in the oven
Making croissant dough
Piping without using a tip
Kneading a croissant dough with a mixer
Preparing a neutral syrup
Giving a double fold
Method for a single fold
Rolling out a leavened puff pastry
Cutting out a layered yeast-leavened dough
Preparing the tourage butter
Coating with syrup
Assembling a viennoiserie
Shaping a viennoiserie
Final Proof & Dough rising
Forming a glutinous network
Defining what the base temperature is
Diluting a cream
Pasteurizing a mixture
Scraping a vanilla bean
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Step 1: Kneading the croissant dough
Déborah Libs
Head Baker and Viennese Pastry World Champion
Head Baker and Viennese Pastry World Champion
Step 2: Coconut rock filling
Step 3: Vanilla cream
Step 4: Squaring the butter
Step 5: Turning: 1 double turn and 1 single turn
Step 6: Production of visible laminates (stripping)
Step 7: Relaxing the vanilla cream
Step 8: Rolling out and detailing the ribbed croissant dough
Step 9: Assembling and priming the vanilla Swiss loaves
Step 10: Assembling the coconut Swiss loaves and priming
Step 11: Neutral syrup
Step 12: Baking and finishing with syrup
Step 13: Final decoration
Déborah Libs
Head Baker and Viennese Pastry World Champion
Déborah Libs is a bakery and pastry chef from Alsace, and World Champion Viennese Pastry Chef.
Passionate about her native region, Déborah has been baking Alsatian specialities with her family since she was a child. Turning to bakery seemed an obvious choice.
After taking a CAP in baking, followed by a CAP in pastry-making, Déborah completed her training with a master's degree. After several competitions, Déborah entered the Bakery Masters in 2018 and was crowned World Viennese Pastry Champion.
Déborah then seized an opportunity to practice her passion in a French bakery in Chicago for 4 years with Pierre Zimmerman, two-time World Bakery Champion. She passed on her love for her region through traditional products from the other side of the Atlantic.
At the same time, the Chef gives numerous demonstrations around the world, as she is keen to pass on her know-how.
Back in France, Déborah's ambition is to open her own bakery in her own image: traditional products from her region, classic bakery products and original products from her creations, both technical and gourmet.
For VoilaChef, Déborah invites you to join her in making 3 of her favorite products: a savory Alsatian kougelhopf, a gourmet two-tone raspberry and chocolate puff pastry brioche, and a classic or coconut version of Swiss stripe bread.
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If you're still hesitating, go for it!
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Thank you so much 😃
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