WF-D exhibited the lower resistance to tensile stresses, the higher extensibility and the best balance between these two important properties, differently from all the other doughs. While WF-D was obtained adding the amount of water determined by the farinographic test (58.7%; dough moisture ¼ 46.5%), CTD were produced according to a croissant-type recipe that originated the following dough moistures: 35.6% for NS-D and SL-D, 33.2% for SCD, and 33.9% for FR-D. This aspect, added to the presence of egg yolk and margarine, could explain the higher tenacity and the lower extensibility of CTD. Margarine and yolk lipids, in fact, act as shortening, breaking the gluten network and conferring lower elasticity and stickiness and higher machinability to the dough (Maache-Rezzoug et al., 1998).