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40
pastries, 2¾ inches in diameterEasy
By Bo Friberg
Published 1989
The word pastry is a generic term used for a multitude of sweets—from simple cookies to ornate filled, layered, and decorated creations, with these Napoleon Hats falling in that gray area between dressed-up cookies and modest individual pastries. Several European languages have a word for this type of sweet, which roughly translates to mean a filled or fancy cookie. These items are larger than a petit four and not as intricate or complex as what is often called a French pastry. Some