We just made the viral cookie dough croissants (aka the ‘crookie’)

You only need 2 ingredients.

Rebecca Nittolo

3 min read

April 4, 2024 - 9:29AM

Crookie recipe Elisa and Michelle

We’ve seen them everywhere, but not many people have been lucky enough to actually taste the latest obsession on the baking block.

Of course, we’re talking about cookie dough croissants. Aka the ‘crookie’ (or ‘le crookie’, for the French or the super-fancy.)

The cookie dough croissant trend

If you have an Instagram or TikTok account, you’ll definitely have had your scroll interrupted by a crookie, because they’re ALL over socials right now. When the taste.com.au team first caught whiff (pun absolutely intended) of them, we were very excited. A flaky pastry stuffed with gooey cookie dough with even more golden cookie dough baked on top? Ooh la la.

But perhaps most pumped were our two resident baking queens: Food Director Michelle Southan and Food Editor Elisa Pietrantonio. They made it their mission to bake a crookie that would not only taste delicious but that was really easy to make, too.

How to make 2-ingredient cookie dough croissants

A lot of fancy bakeries are making their own croissant pastry AND their own cookie dough, but Michelle and Elisa wanted to make theirs as simple as possible, with few ingredients.

Michelle was extremely happy to discover a ready-to-bake cookie dough in Coles. “It’s called Aunty Kath’s Cookie Dough and you can find it with chilled products near the fresh pasta in the supermarket.” The other ingredient, of course, was store-bought croissants.

As seen on all the viral vids, all they had to do was slice open the croissants, stuff some cookie dough inside then spread some more on top, like this:

Recipe test 1: air fryer cookie dough croissants

We know how much you all love an air fryer recipe, so of course Michelle and Elisa tried the crookies in their air fryer first. They looked and tasted delicious, see?

But Michelle had concerns about ‘baking’ them this way. Although their batch worked, all cookie doughs behave differently and she was worried some may not cook through. She said: “They shouldn’t be eaten raw and, with the very quick cooking time of the air fryer, I wasn’t 100 per cent convinced it would always be cooked enough.”

But that’s not the only reason they abandoned the air fryer in favour of traditional oven baking. “They also puffed up more in the oven!” Michelle said. Elisa added: “The dough also stayed a bit more oozy in the middle.”

Recipe test 2: oven-baked cookie dough croissants

Michelle and Elisa “had a feeling” their oven batch of crookies would be good (“mostly because we love croissants!”), but they admitted they “weren’t prepared for HOW good”.

Elisa said: “When we pulled them out of the oven, they really did look like we had just bought them from a French patisserie! They’re the perfect dupe for store-bought, without the hours of laminating, rolling, dough making etc.

“Sometimes these trends definitely aren’t worth the hype, so I was glad they lived up to all the fanfare!”

What do crookies taste like?

Elisa summed it up: “Imagine a warm gooey choc chip cookie fresh out of the oven wrapped in a warm flaky pastry… it had an almond croissant x choc croissant vibe going on.

“If I could marry a pastry, I would…”