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A pastry aromatised with vanilla or rum extract/essence, as well as lemon rind, and stuffed with Turkish delight, jam, chocolate, cinnamon sugar, walnuts, and/or raisins. Cream horn: A pastry made with flaky or puff pastry, filled with fruit or jam and whipped cream. The horn shape is made by winding overlapping pastry strips around a conical mold.
Laminated dough is a culinary preparation consisting of many thin layers of dough separated by butter or other solid fat, produced by repeated folding and rolling. Such doughs may contain more than eighty layers. [ 1 ]
Sfogliatella (Italian: [sfoʎʎaˈtɛlla]; Neapolitan: sfugliatella; pl.: sfogliatelle) is a shell-shaped pastry with a sweet or creamy filling, originating in the Campania region of Italy. [1] [2] Sfogliatella means 'small, thin leaf/layer', as the pastry's texture resembles stacked leaves. [citation needed]
A croissant (/ k r ə ˈ s ɑː n t, ˈ k (r) w æ s ɒ̃ /, [1] French: ⓘ) is a French pastry in a crescent shape made from a laminated yeast dough similar to puff pastry. [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]
Viennoiseries (French: [vjɛnwazʁi]; English: "things in the style of Vienna") are French baked goods made from a yeast-leavened dough in a manner similar to bread, or from puff pastry, but with added ingredients (particularly eggs, butter, milk, cream and sugar), which give them a richer, sweeter character that approaches that of pastry. [1]
For strudel, pastry layers are achieved by rolling the (lightly fat-coated) dough around the filling multiple times; some phyllo pastry dishes also use this method. Versions of puff pastry are leavened with baker's yeast to create croissants, Danish pastry or pain au chocolat; these may be considered as being in a category distinct from puff ...
A mille-feuille (French: [mil fœj]; lit. ' thousand-sheets '), [notes 1] also known by the names Napoleon in North America, [1] [2] vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice, is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream.
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 ] in some countries pâtisserie or its equivalents are legally controlled titles which may only be used by bakeries that employ a licensed "master pastry chef ...