Puff pastry
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Puff pastry, also known as pâte feuilletée, is a light, flaky pastry, its base dough composed of wheat flour and water. Butter or other solid fat is then layered into the dough. The dough is repeatedl
Puff pastry before baking, with layers clearly visible
Spanish pastry in Madrid
A palmier, or "palm leaf", design
Home made puff pastries with sugar
Croissant
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A croissant is a Viennoiserie in a crescent shape made from a laminated yeast dough that sits between a bread and a puff pastry.
Puff pastry
…goes that Lorrain was making a type of very buttery bread for his sick father, and the process of rolling the butter into the bread dough created a croissant-like finished product. The production of puff pastry dough can be time-consuming, because it must be kept at a temperature of approximately 16 °C (60…
Croissant Petr Kratochvil
The original Boulangerie Viennoise in 1909 (when it was owned by Philibert Jacquet). The bakery proper is at left and its tea salon at right.
A kipferl, a precursor to croissants
Baked croissants