World of Pastries

Want some dessert? Why not grab some pastries from your favorite bakery and bite into the goodness of flaky and crumbly baked goodies. Compared to bread, pastries have more fat content. But aside from shortening, pastries also usually contain of course flour; liquid ingredient such as water, milk or eggs; salt; sugar and flavorings such as various herbs, spices, nuts and other tasty treats that’s sure to tickle your taste buds.

Some of the more common types of pastries include croissants, baklava, Danish pastry and strudels. The croissant is sometimes called crescent or crescent roll because of the shape that it took from the moon. It is a French puff pastry with loads of butter and with the dough rolled and folded many times to create the flaky appeal. The baklava is of Turkish origin. Nuts and honey make these layers of filo pastry taste even better. Just like the croissant, the Danish pastry also requires a lot of rolling, buttering and folding of the different layers. But in this case, these pastries can come in shapes such as circles, figure-eights, spirals and pretzels. The strudels are usually related to Australian bakers. But the most popular kind of strudel is the Apple strudel of Germany. Tour the different tastes of the world of pastry at pastries.com.