Tag: pastry

Gouda Crescents

A delicious Gouda filling wrapped in warm puff pastry makes an extremely appetizing small bite for your friends and family. The optional sauces can add either a little sweetness or a little heat. Feel free to increase the cayenne pepper in the filling if you want these crescents on the spicier side! Prep Time: 35…


From Denmark to Wisconsin, the Kringle Is a Giant, Flaky Pastry Meant to be Shared

It’s 6:30 a.m. and I am calling Bendtsen’s Bakery to try to catch the baker. But I fail. Again. “He’s making kringles,” says the woman on the phone, apologetically. “This is a busy time right now. We’re making thousands a day.” The week before, I’d been told the baker and his lone assistant had come…


Top Pastry Chef Ebow Dadzie on How Grandma’s Lessons Guided His Journey to Success

In the kitchen of a small, two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment, a young Ebow Dadzie watched his grandmother cook. At times, he was instructed to pass a spice or stir a pot, and sometimes he was taught an entire recipe. Usually, he just observed as Dorothy Mitchell prepared dinner for her family. No matter what he was…


Fisherman Catches Ultra-Rare Sponge Crab That ‘Looks Like a Pastry’ off the Coast of England

A fisherman was stunned to find an ultra-rare “sponge-coated” crab off the coast of Cornwall—that looks just like a Cornish pastry. Ian Jepson, who has been a sustainable lobster and crab pot fisherman for 35 years, discovered the usual crustacean while out at sea. He said they seemingly carve out a piece of sponge that…