pastry making

Creating flaky treats

Pastry making is the craft of preparing baked goods from dough, especially items like pies, tarts, croissants, and puff pastry.

The term emphasizes technique—working butter into flour, achieving flaky layers, controlling temperature—distinguishing it from general baking.

She studied pastry making at culinary school.

Related

laminating · docking · fondant · shortcrust · pie crust · croissant · strudel · galette · frangipane · blind baking · rolling pin · mille-feuille · vol-au-vent · fruit preserves · scoring · piping bag · pie · crust

Categories
Opposites
baked goods specialization

pastry makingbread baking

Crafting risen dough loaves

bread making · grilling · barbecuing · butchery · charcuterie

activity type

pastry makingeating

Ingesting sustenance

consuming · demolition

Family

making, pastry

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G