Arlettes (GBBO fan recreation)

I saw these on Great British Bake Off a few weeks ago and because I <3 lamination, had to try them.

Here's the recipe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/arlettes_17164

Here are my changes:

I used whole wheat flour so for the dough, I used 10% less flour (55g of each).

There's a direction in the recipe to encase the dough in the butter, which is the opposite of every other recipe, and the only difference it makes is going "butter, dough, butter, dough, butter" instead of the other way round.  We're talking about n-1 vs n+1 butter layers, and with 3 bookend turns, this is out of 60 total layers.  I think it's not worth the hassle, and simply wrapped the butter in the dough.

At the end of all the folding and rolling and cutting you end up with 8 discs like this:

Each of these is the size of my palm.  When they say thin they mean *thin*.  So far so good.

Baking:

The instructions said to do 350F with convection or 400F without.  I don't have a convection oven, so I did 400F, and that was a big mistake.  With how thin these are, and coated in powdered sugar, they went from not done to slightly burnt in <1 min.

Next time I will do at 350F, and probably only do one set of 4 at a time, so I can be more confident that everything will cook evenly and not burn.  I'll also ehr on the side of not brown enough, trusting crispiness to come as they cool.

You know what else would help?  Actual baking sheets.  I am embarrassed to say, given how much I bake, that I don't have more than one, and use a variety of wire racks and such to bake on.

As you can see, there's some burning on the finished product.  Still tasty though.  I'm going to go dunk one in a cup of tea.