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| apple pie |
a pastry dish made with sliced apples and flavored with sugar, cinnamon, and sometimes other spices, often considered typically American or even symbolic of American culture and values. |
| bakery |
a store, or part of a store, in which baked goods, such as bread, cake, and pastry are made or sold. |
| baklava |
a dessert of various regions near the Mediterranean made from layers of flaky pastry, honey, and nuts. |
| Banbury tart |
a small pastry shell filled with raisins, currants, nuts, and the like. |
| beef Wellington |
a dish consisting of a lightly roasted piece of beef covered with pâté de foie gras, surrounded with pastry, and baked. |
| chess pie |
a custardlike dessert baked in a pastry shell. |
| cornet |
a cone-shaped wafer or pastry, used to hold ice cream or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| cream puff |
a light pastry shell with a whipped cream or custard filling. |
| croissant |
a roll in the shape of a crescent, made of leavened dough or puff pastry. |
| Danish |
(informal) a light, flaky pastry that is made of raised dough, filled with cheese, fruit, or the like, and usu. drizzled with icing; Danish pastry. [1/3 definitions] |
| Danish pastry |
a light, flaky pastry that is made of raised dough, filled with cheese, fruit, or the like, and usu. drizzled with icing. |
| éclair |
an oblong pastry filled with whipped cream or custard and usu. frosted with chocolate. |
| empanada |
a pastry turnover filled with a variety of sweet or savory ingredients and baked or fried. Empanadas originated in Spain and are particularly popular in both Spain and Latin America. |
| en croûte |
in a crust, esp. wrapped in pastry and baked. |
| frost |
to apply frosting to a cake, pastry, or the like; ice. [1/9 definitions] |
| gâteau |
a layer cake or pastry shell filled with custard, mousse, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| hot cross bun |
a bunlike pastry marked with a cross of frosting, often associated with Lent. |
| Linzer torte |
(sometimes l.c.) a pastry filled with raspberry jam and covered with a lattice crust that is made of finely ground almonds. |
| madeleine |
a rich cakelike pastry baked in a small mold. |
| meringue |
egg whites beaten stiff with sugar and sometimes flavoring, used to form a pastry shell or as a topping on other baked foods. |
| napoleon |
a layered puff pastry with a custard filling. [1/3 definitions] |
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