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Pastry refers to a variety of doughs (often enriched with fat or eggs), as well as the sweet and savoury baked goods made from them. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] These goods are often called pastries as a synecdoche, and the dough may be accordingly called pastry dough for clarity. [ 4 ] Sweetened pastries are often described as bakers' confectionery.
List of pastries. Pastries are small buns made using a stiff dough enriched with fat. Some dishes, such as pies, are made of a pastry casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients. The five basic types of pastry dough (a food that combines flour and fat) are shortcrust pastry, filo pastry, choux ...
Croissant. A croissant (UK: / ˈkrwʌsɒ̃, ˈkrwæsɒ̃ /, [1] US: / krəˈsɒnt, krwɑːˈsɒ̃ /; French: [kʁwasɑ̃] ⓘ) is a French pastry made from puff pastry in a crescent shape. [2] It is a buttery, flaky, viennoiserie pastry inspired by the shape of the Austrian kipferl, but using the French yeast-leavened laminated dough. [3]
Pasty. A pasty (/ ˈpæsti / [1]) or Cornish pasty is a British baked pastry, a variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, but has spread all over the British Isles, and elsewhere through the Cornish diaspora. [2][3] It consists of an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, baked in a folded and crimped shortcrust ...
Kringle. Kringle (/ ˈkrɪŋɡəl /, listen ⓘ) is a Northern European pastry, a variety of pretzel. Pretzels were introduced by Roman Catholic monks in the 13th century in Denmark, and from there they spread throughout Scandinavia and evolved into several kinds of sweet, salty or filled pastries, all in the shape of kringle.
Pâtisserie. A pâtisserie (French: [pɑtisʁi]), patisserie in English or pastry shop in American English, is a type of bakery that specializes in pastries and sweets. In French, the word pâtisserie also denotes a pastry as well as pastry-making. While the making and selling of pastries may often be only one part of the activity of a bakery ...
A Danish pastry (Danish: wienerbrød [ˈviˀnɐˌpʁœðˀ]) (sometimes shortened to danish, especially in American English) is a multilayered, laminated sweet pastry in the viennoiserie tradition. It is thought that some bakery techniques were brought to Denmark by Austrian bakers , and originated the name of this pastry.
Choux pastry. A cake made from choux pastry and filled with cream. Choux pastry, or pâte à choux (French: [pat a ʃu]), is a delicate pastry dough used in many pastries. The essential ingredients are butter, water, flour and eggs. Instead of a raising agent, choux pastry employs its high moisture content to create steam, as the water in the ...