Pastry heart

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Pastry heart
Type Pastry
Place of origin United States
Region or state Buffalo, New York
Main ingredients Puff pastry, white sugar icing

A pastry heart is a regional dessert item found in the Western New York area, with Buffalo [1] [2] credited as the place it was first created. [3]

The pastry heart is a heart shaped flaky puff pastry, similar to a palmier or palm leaves pastry, that is usually topped with a white sugar icing that has a hard shell but is soft on the inside. [1] [4]

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References

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