Danish Pastries

If you’ve eaten only the typical Danish pastries sold in grocery stores and corner doughnut places, you have never tasted the real thing. Authentic Danish pastries are not like bread or cake but are instead flaky and buttery and very rich; they’re made with croissant dough.

Strictly speaking, Danish pastry dough is only slightly different from croissant dough, but calling it a different name is more the result of tradition than because of any discernable difference in the result; it is so hard to distinguish that it’s hardly worth learning very similar steps. The real distinction between Danish pastries and croissants is, of course, the numerous shapes Danish pastry takes.