Vegan pain au chocolat that you bake from chilled dough. We recently reviewed the bake-at-home croissants that Jus-Rol produce and thought we'd better follow up with the even more enticing looking Pain au chocolat rolls. You get 6 rolls, in a box that has a very good shelf life if kept in the fridge - long enough to keep in on stand-by for a lazy Sunday morning...when you eventually get one.
The dough package looks a lot like the croissant package, and the sticks of chocolate are packed separately.
You just pop open the tube and unroll the dough before tearing along the perforations to separate each piece.
Add a stick of chocolate in each end of each piece of dough, then roll both ends in and tuck underneath to keep them sealed.
You can optionally brush the dough with soya milk, which we did, if you want them to have a golden glazed look.
Less than 15 minutes later you have 6 hot fresh pain au chocolat rolls, and a kitchen that smells like a French cafe.
You have about 20 minutes to eat them fresh from the oven, while they are still crispy, soft and heavenly. After half an hour they start to go a little firm and bouncy, so don't cook them in advance!
For a double chocolate experience, you could serve them with a hot chocolate made with rice or soya milk.
These are really good pastries. They tear easily into two, with each side containing a chocolatey centre, just waiting to gently melt in your mouth.
You can even check with Janet that these are vegan.
Veganoo Score: ★★★★☆
Jus-Rol Pain au Chocolat
Jus-Rol Pain au Chocolat
Footnote: Ingredients
Here is the ingredients panel from the pack we reviewed.
I love these, even more than the croissants. Have you tried the pizza dough? That was disappointing. :(
ReplyDeleteNot even seen the pizza dough...but thanks for the tip, we'll give it a try anyway if we come across it.
DeleteThey look awesome and so handy! Do you reckon the pastry is actually any different from the ordinary puff pastry though?
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's somewhere between bread and puff pastry
DeleteMay contain eggs or milk? What does Janet say about that?
ReplyDeleteAllergy statements are based on very low thresholds that even the Vegan Society don't observe
Delete"May contain" is about cross-contamination from non-vegan products made in the same factory. Not referring to deliberately added ingredients.
DeleteOH MY GAWSHHH
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