Meanings
plural Danish pastries
- A sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard.
Danish pastries are made in essentially the same way as croissants. The initial dough is moister and softer, includes sugar and also whole eggs, so it's sweeter, richer, and distinctively yellow, and it isn't given an initial rising.
2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBNSynonyms: Danish
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard.
More synonyms by meaning
nounlight sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
So named because they were introduced to the United States via Copenhagen.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish wienerbrød
- wienerbrødyeast roll
Finnish viineri, wiener
- viineriyeast roll
- wieneryeast roll
- wienerleipäyeast roll
French viennoiserie danoise, danoise
- viennoiserie danoiseyeast roll
- danoiseyeast roll
German Kopenhagener, Plunder
- Kopenhageneryeast roll
- Plunderyeast roll
- Teilchenyeast roll
- Plundergebäckyeast roll
Japanese デニッシュ
- デニッシュ (denisshu)yeast roll
Norwegian Bokmål wienerbrød
- wienerbrødyeast roll
Polish ciasto duńskie
- ciasto duńskieyeast roll
Spanish pan danés, masa danesa
- pan danésyeast roll
- masa danesayeast roll
- facturayeast roll
- bizcochoyeast roll
Swedish wienerbröd
- wienerbrödyeast roll
Turkish Danimarka çöreği
- Danimarka çöreğiyeast roll
Cite this entry
Danish pastry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Danish%20pastry
“Danish pastry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Danish%20pastry. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Danish pastry,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Danish%20pastry.
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