The Great Pastry Thread - Fun and prizes!!!

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My gram's recipe for raisin-filled cookies which I now understand are based from an old-fashioned british pastry called Eccles Cake.  My mom adored these growing up, and I think they are pretty darn tasty too!
 

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On traditional English recipes I can't resist a Bakewell Tart.  I've never had one in Bakewell but there used to be a little bakers in a little place I stayed in in Surrey and  they made the most delish' family sized Bakewells!  Sweet, almond pasty with a generous layer of raspberry jam all over the base, then scummy almond sponge not all dried out like the usual ones you buy.  All topped off with a skimming of water icing and that mandatory glace cherry on top.  Yumyumyumyumyummmmm.  Oh yes, Eccles Cakes are good too (if you like fly cemeteries 
).  Never tried making them but I'm thinking they wouldn't be that hard if you had a good puff pastry to start off.   

This post is not good for anyone trying to reduce their waist line!  Why can't I stop thinking about food?  
 

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Cannoli and Irish soda bread... 2 pastries I miss since going GF. if anyone has a source, I'm interested. Best Place for GF pastries up my way is West Meadow GF Bakery in Essex Jct. VT. They make stuff even wheat eaters would consider good. I like the carrot cake and OMG they had pumpkin whoopie pies a couple weeks ago.
 
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Hungarian Nut Rolls - a favorite from my childhood.  My mom made these almost every year, and I wish I had the dough skills to make them as well.  Maybe I'll try making a gluten-free version this year (or next..lol).
 

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Has anyone gone for cinnamon Danish yet?  There's a cafe near me that does the most fantastic ones I've ever had.  They're more like cake than pastry - not too greacy, and the falvour is spot on.  Not overwhelming but a proper warm inhallation of the spice with the raisins and pastry as you bite in.  Mmm, thinking it's a month of two since I was at that cafe, might have to find a reason to go past....
 
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Carrot cake! I love carrot cake!


I may have to break down and turn the heat up a little more. It's getting cold in here. I think it is supposed to be cold all week.
 

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Oh yes, now there's a nice pastry snack - samosa.  I like really spicy vegetable ones the best.  I've never tried making them but I used to make pakora as a buffet contribution for work 'lunches' and parties.  I had a couple of recipes, one from a neighbour who grew up in Southern India, and another from a woman I worked for over the course of several years and she always seemed to be cooking when I was at the house!  She was from Pakistan and moved shortly after independence, she made them quite differently to my neighbour.  Both were pretty yummy recipes but they took ages to do and my apartment always smelled of the cooking oil for days afterwards......... haven't made them for years as a result.  Way nicer than any of the ones you buy.  I never mastered the spicy sauce which was a bit of a pain.  
 

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Apple Crisp Cheesecake - I may be attempting this for Thanksgiving, but I'm not happy with any recipes I've seen yet.

Yes, this thread is making me


@MServant How come you aren't babbling away in here?
The lover of all things yummy and unhealthy like chocolate eclaires finally saw your post!    
  I arrived.  Sadly I had to go to work today and TCS viewing would not be acceptable when I'm there.

I can't imagine how I developed a reputation for either babbling about nothing or liking unhealthy food like pastries on here - ha ha.  More like how come I didn't think up this thread?  
  This thread has my name written all over it - you know me so well AbbysMom.
 

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Pumpkin spice palmiers. I've never had them, but after seeing a recipe for them, I'd like to try my hand at making some.

As soon as I read "Huckleberry", I immediately thought about Glacier NP! Huckleberry all over that area :lol3:  They even have Huckleberry flavored soft ice cream in the ice cream machine that's at the Mani Glacier visitors center. Only two flavors they have are vanilla and Huckleberry. Both are delicious and I'm afraid I've tested that ice cream more times than I should have... Did you know they actually have almost 20 different kinds of berries in the park? The bears love them all :bigwink:  In fact, the best way to see a bear, in season, is by looking for a berry patch. Once we learned that trick, we saw bears every day while in the park!
I live twenty minutes away from Glacier, so I do know about the obsession with huckleberries! I've had the soft serve in Many Glacier many a time. I always get the vanilla huckleberry swirl.

There definitely are lot of berries in the park! I recently discovered another berry (besides huckleberries) that I can snack on while hiking. It's called a thimbleberry, and it looks a bit like a raspberry. They taste really good- a bit like a strawberry and raspberry combined.

When did you visit Glacier?
 
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the best pastry i have every put in my mouth is baklava, its a greek pastry with nuts and honey. it is sweet, you can't eat much at one time but it is sooo good

 

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Flourless chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, Chantilly cream and pistachio brittle.

What it really means.. Flourless chocolate cake, with raspberry sauce, topped with whipped cream and pistachio brittle.

No picture cause this is from the restaurant I work at.. but it tastes delicious. I always LOVE how they play it up to make it seem extravagant!
 

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Oh yes, now there's a nice pastry snack - samosa.  I like really spicy vegetable ones the best.  I've never tried making them but I used to make pakora as a buffet contribution for work 'lunches' and parties.  I had a couple of recipes, one from a neighbour who grew up in Southern India, and another from a woman I worked for over the course of several years and she always seemed to be cooking when I was at the house!  She was from Pakistan and moved shortly after independence, she made them quite differently to my neighbour.  Both were pretty yummy recipes but they took ages to do and my apartment always smelled of the cooking oil for days afterwards......... haven't made them for years as a result.  Way nicer than any of the ones you buy.  I never mastered the spicy sauce which was a bit of a pain.  
Over here we have frozen samosas at Trader Joe's.
 

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Rugelach with a finely ground pecan filling.  My ex-husband's mother is Russian and the family is in Youngstown where there are a lot of people of Russian and Eastern European descent.  I had never had it until the first Christmas that I spent in Youngstown.  Everyone in the family made rugelach for Christmas.  The name doesn't sound very appetizing but they are very good.  The pastry is a slightly sweet yeast dough.  It's rolled out in a circle then cut into triangles, spread the filling on them then roll up like a crescent roll.  They are dusted with powdered sugar after baking.  I think traditional is with a apricot filling but I have only had it with the pecan filling.     

 
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Thin layer chocolate cake. A lady in our community makes this cake with 21 layers of cake and chocolate between all of them. I love it.

By the way, you folks are naming some things I never heard of or saw before and I have been around a lot of years. This is so interesting to read to see what everyone eats. The thread is even better when you put the pictures, but it makes me hungry.
 
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