Favorite pastries

Ok, here we will discuss favorite pastries. I am defining 'pastry' as any baked flour product that might be found at a breakfast table or eaten as a snack/dessert that is not a 'bread'.

OK, I included 'bread'.

Like the definition, thanks.

Oh it's tricky!
Despite not having a sweet tooth, I do like my pastries as defined in this thread.

Although it's the bready ones I like the most.
Teacakes, hot cross buns, fruit loaf, malt loaf and brioche.
And the more savoury ones - cheese scones come top of the cakey ones.

The forbidden, non-pastry, Starbucks maple nut "scone" with awesome maple frosting on top which somehow adds a little bit of maple frosting to every segment of the eating.

Somehow they figured out exactly which pastry goes exactly with coffee. This is the one.

Being from Philadelphia, where the annual consumption of soft pretzels is 20 lbs (twice the US average), I love them. Right now we have 20 or more in the freezer (I used to be able to buy 30 with a coupon). As a matter of fact, as soon as I finish this post I'm going downstairs to microwave a few.:yum:

I do like the occasional scone or croissant (%^$#$#^% I forgot to make croissant a choice). I just love a soft pretzel with mustard for breakfast.

I have a hard time calling anything made with bread flour a pastry, eg, bagels, pretzels, and bread. While I love them long time, I see them as non pastry items. Pastry has an implication of a different texture, leavened with fat of some type. Croissants, while they have yeast and are made with bread dough, I'd consider a pastry mainly because of the flaky-ness and the butter.

I'm sure there is a specific definition, I'm just stating my conceptions.

In any event They are all good, and I chose pretty much everything but funnel cakes and their ilk.

http://www.answers.com/topic/pastry scroll down to the fourth or fifth entry for a mouth watering discussion on the definition of pastry

Pastry for Brits is quite a specific term too.
But I'm going with Rich's definition for the duration of the poll.

Undertoad;460269 wrote:

The forbidden, non-pastry, Starbucks maple nut "scone"

I like the vanilla bean frosted scones, but my favorite at Starbucks is the cranberry bliss bar.

Of the choices given, I guess I'd go with waffles (but with real fruit topping, not pie filling like they do at some places).

My real favorite is this almond pastry that my mom used to make all the time. I might even try to make it... thanks Rich.

How the hell do you leave Danishes off this list?



this is a brutal poll. i want to choose 5 of them as my favorite....depends on my mood.

gotta say soft pretzel though.....cuz i like mustard.

Ummm - I chose lots.

Oh, well, I would add biscotti then. My mom used to make excellent biscotti... before she joined the weight watchers cult.

and friggin melt-a-ways. They are the total shnitznitz. or whatever.

Sorry, thought you said pasties... as you were.

How the hell do you leave Danishes off this list?

Yeah, and studel and all those other tasty European style pastries. Those are my favourites. What about choux pastry made into eclaires or cream puffs etc?

WHAT ABOUT ALL THE REAL PASTRIES????

My Dad makes excellent choux pastry.
My Mum makes lousy shortcrust, but bakes a mean cake.

Random facts of the day for you.

I can't make scones. There's another random fact. I can make almost anything else you like, but I have never ever once had a batch of scones turn out any good. I don't get it.

So there you go. I guess I'm not a kitchen witch after all.

Pancake (flapjack)

Those are two entirely different pastries....aren't they?

Everything, Salt, or Garlic Bagle toasted brown with light low fat cream cheese and lockes.

Soft Pretzel
Doughnut
Indian Frybread
Fritter
Cornbread
Waffle
Pancake (flapjack)


Beignet? Someone send me one of those. please :coffee:



I couldn't choose just one.

we are going to run into language problems here, I think.

I voted doughnut, English muffin, and beignet. Not that I've had beignets anywhere but Cafe du Monde, in NO, but still--

DanaC;460397 wrote:

Those are two entirely different pastries....aren't they?

In the US a pancake is the same thing as a flapjack, though some people mean a thinner, crispier, larger diameter pancake. UK flapjacks are totally yummy, in their oaty goodness.

jinx;460293 wrote:

Oh, well, I would add biscotti then. My mom used to make excellent biscotti... before she joined the weight watchers cult.

Actually, I found that the Stella Doro Anisette Toast, which are similar to biscotti (they also sell regular biscotti) are only 1 weight watcher point apiece. Rite Aid sells a super size box of them.

I did try a little research on this, and found there are regional varieties of waffles, pancakes, rolls, etc. I could have listed 100 items, but I had to settle for general differences in dough or texture (frybread vs flatbread).

I did forget croissants and danish, which are popular in America, thanks partially to McDonalds. I did remember the beignets, even though I've never had one and probably never will.

I did loosely define pastry. I wanted to include anything we've had for breakfast or a snack, or we made for ourselves or had then made for us from scratch, or a mix or can. Doughy comfort food.

Croissants and danish have been popular longer than McDonalds. Although Pillsbury did have a hand in the croissant factor.

Make sure when you eat these things they are followed with a huge glass of 2% milk.:stickpoke

You get croissants in McDonalds?!
Blimey. Our McDonalds have a long way to go (though you can get fruit toast, bagels and porridge now, as well as bacon rolls with brown sauce).

Croissants are best dipped in hot chocolate in the handle-less cups they have in France though. For a really authentic experience I mean.

Sundae Girl;460544 wrote:

You get croissants in McDonalds?!

McD's doesn't make croissant breakfast sandwiches in the UK? Are they afraid of pissing off the French?

Our branch of McD does something that purports to be crioissant based.

To be fair I haven't had a McD's breakfast in about 5 years.

Oh - I lie. A couple of years ago the local paper had coupons when they launched their new "healthier" breakfast range and I pinched them from the work copy of the paper because I walked past McDonalds on my way in... and because I charmed the press dept who let me have it. But I wasn't looking at the menu.

It's pretty impossible to get a healthy fast food breakfast, as far as I can tell.

I've never known McDonalds to have croissants. Jack in the Box, yes; McD's, no.

I like every kind of pastry, from phyllo to quick-breads.

I've never heard of zeppole, but I'd probably like them too.

I like strombolis just fine as long as the tomato/marinara sauce is scratchbuilt on-site and inside the stromboli. Setting a little covered plastic cup of factory-built marinara on the side to dip with bores me, quite.

There's a local Mexican-bakery roll with Mexican cheese (it's very hard to tell one Mexican white cheese from another), shaved ham, and sliced jalapeño baked inside. I'm quite fond of these when it's not quite dinnertime for one reason or another but it's still late in the day and my stomach is sending me messages.

McDonald's in America doesn't have croissants that I know of, but Burger King does.

The Egg McMuffin has little fat and only 325 calories. According to their nutrition info chart thingie. I eat two with a large OJ for breakkie.

Ah! UG and I agree on something.

I've never met a pastry I didn't like.