Visionary Sandwiches

Once upon a day, we were having a conversation with a friend, who was describing the meal he prepared over the weekend. When he mentioned baking croissants, my friend had a vision. A vision of rolling up meat and cheese into a croissant, and the possibility of creating a new type of... sandwich? Could it possibly work? Dare we try to make the sandwich of The Prophecy?

We didn't know if this would work out okay. If the croissants would bake all the way through, if the meat would burn, if the cheese would make a mess of the whole thing. There seemed like there could be a lot to go wrong here. But the vision was so clear. Here we go!

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We would normally pre-toast the pepperoni, on crinkled-up aluminum foil,  to get rid of a lot of the grease on them. So here's the step for that. We are a little worried that pre-toasting the pepperoni might make it burn later, but we gotta get rid of that grease.

Press between paper towels after toasting. That's a lot of sit-ups we won't have to do later. Some ponies might enjoy the tasty grease, so have fun on the exercise bike for a few more hours, too.

It's been a while since we've pulled on the tab of one of these things. It was a little exciting to experience the fun anticipation-terror of the "pop!" You know it's going to happen.

So here's the dough triangles. The instructions on the side of the can were not clear at all about how exactly you need to roll this up to make the croissant. Do they expect you to know? Haven't you done this before?

Not knowing what to expect, we mix up the trials. Some of these have cheese on the top and bottom, some only the top. There are a couple that don't have cheese and a couple of plain old rolled-up dough to see if a regular croissant was possible. I believe scientists call that "the control"? In case the rest of it makes a mess, at least we can have a few croissants.

We did our best to roll these up, and they rolled better than expected. The dough is holding it's roll, and they are not trying to un-roll themselves. It doesn't look like the dough is covering up enough, there's lots of meat and cheese sticking out. We are a little worried things might burn a little.

Here they go into the oven! We still have a lot of pepperoni and cheese left over. In case this doesn't turn out well, we can at least have an event-buffet-snack type of meal. You know, where the tray of goodies has little meat and cheese squares?

Checking half way through and honestly they don't look too bad. 15 Minutes doesn't seem like it's long enough to cook the dough but we're not chefs, and that's what the instructions said, so we gotta believe 15 minutes is going to be good enough.

Oh wow. Did something magical just happen? When we pulled these out of the oven, we knew the future was now. Just like we imagined. The meat was not burned, the cheese was melted and not burned either. The dough was croissant-y all the way through.

You're going to want to try these for yourself to believe me when I say these are just as tasty as you think they look. I think the two slices of meat and one slice of cheese versions were the best ratio, but you might like the extra cheese or the no-cheese versions, too. They were all amazing. Three or four would be a good portion, maybe two if you had chips or something to go with them. But we gobbled down all six of them. No regrets. We saved the regular croissants for another day.

Check out this spiral! All we need now is a cool name for our discovery. We are a little interested to see if anypony else has done this before and if this already has a name, surely we can't be the first ponies to try rolling up croissants with meats and cheeses. Can we be so bold as to call these Sandwiches of The Prophecy? After pondering it for a few days now,  I think we are going to go with "Wizard Scrolls." Simple and Magical.