It is National Pastry Day!

It is National Pastry Day!

Pastries come in all sizes and shapes. Whether savory or sweet, I feel everyone loves pasties!

When I was in college my friends introduced me to cream puffs and chocolate eclairs, I thought they were the tastiest pastry I had ever had until I found a bakery near where I worked that sold cheese danish.  To this day I still remember that bakery and those cheese danish.

What are your favorite pastries?


These are some pretty pastries that would inspire anyone!


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This time of year it has to be mince pies!

Traditionally Mum made ours with star toppings like these:

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I like to do some with a bakewell topping - you get a lovely custard layer if they turn out right:

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If pies count, I made pumpkin pie late yesterday and have enjoyed it today. It only uses 1/3 cup of honey to sweeten it, and I grew the pumpkin myself, so it almost counts as a vegetable, rather than desert!

Jay, of course, pies count as pastry!

So great that you grew it yourself, too.

I love pumpkin pie.

Here is the Wikipedia for a list of pastries with lots that I have never heard of and some I would not have thought were considered pastry, like Dutch Baby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pastries

Here is an interesting one called a Marry Girl Cake or Dowry Cake:

Marry girl cake or dowry cake is a traditional Chinese pastry that was once a ceremonial cake used as a wedding gift in the traditional Chinese wedding ceremony, hence the name. Today, this cake is known more as a classic Chinese pastry rather than a wedding gift because it has lost most of its original significance due to cultural change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry_cake

This one I have seen a lot when we lived in Mexico, I have never had one though I thought they were cookies:

Pan dulce, literally meaning "sweet bread", is the general name for a variety of Hispanic pastries. Pan dulce was introduced by Spanish colonists, settlers and immigrants and was also influenced by other Old World cultures, notably from France. They are inexpensive treats and are consumed daily as breakfast or late supper, known as merienda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_dulce

Anyway, I enjoyed reading about all these pasties.

It is National Pastry Day, again!

Here are some threads to help celebrate pastry:

https://permies.com/t/205235/Pastry-Boiling-Water

https://permies.com/t/172855/Choux-Pastry-Cream-Puffs