190 pastry dough recipes

Sweet pie dough (pate sucree) made in a food processor with butter, eggs, sugar, and flour. The buttery, slightly sweet pastry that elevates fruit pies and tarts.

Greek baklava with buttery cookie dough rolled around spiced nuts and phyllo, soaked in honey-lemon syrup for layers of crisp pastry and rich almond filling.

Pineapple stuffed empanadas. A delicate pastry style dough with a filling of pineapple and apricot jam. Perfect for afternoon tea or healthy snacks for the kids or guests.

An Eastern European pastry with a rich history and cultural significance. They are traditionally made from a simple dough consisting of cream cheese, butter, and flour, and filled with sweet fillings like jam, nuts, or cheese.

Tender dough rolls around strawberry jelly, chopped apples, and toasted nuts spiced with cinnamon sugar, then slices into swirled rounds that bake golden for a fruit-filled German-inspired pastry.

Cinnamon nut or raisin biscuits with a brown sugar cinnamon filling tucked inside layered biscuit dough. The pocket of sweet spice goes molten as the biscuit bakes, giving you breakfast pastry without the yeast wait.

Classic double-crust apple pie with a from-scratch butter pastry, thinly sliced green apples, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Includes a homemade pie dough recipe for flaky, golden results.

Covered strawberry pie bakes fresh berries into a juicy, cinnamon-kissed filling thickened with cornstarch, all tucked between two flaky pie crusts. An old-fashioned double-crust strawberry pie, not the usual no-bake glaze version.

Almond raspberry tassies are bite-size tarts with a cream cheese pastry shell, a hidden dot of raspberry jam, and a frangipane-style almond filling. Tea cookies that look fancy but mix in one bowl.

Classic French currant tart with a vanilla butter pastry shell, silky pastry cream, fresh red currants, and a kirsch-currant jelly glaze edged with toasted almonds.

Sambusak (Sephardic stuffed pastries) with a yeasted anise-scented dough filled with spiced ground beef, deep-fried to golden. A traditional Jewish meat pastry for holidays and gatherings.

Authentic Danish pastry (Dansk Wienerbrod) dough: laminated yeast pastry rolled and folded multiple times to create flaky, buttery layers. The base recipe for Cocks' Combs, Spandauers, Cremeboller, and every other classic Danish bakery treat.

Krakelingen are crisp Dutch figure-8 cookies made from a simple pie-pastry dough of butter, flour, and water, rolled into ropes and dipped in sugar. Buttery, crackly, and built for coffee dunking.

New York crumb buns with rich enriched dough and a thick almond paste cinnamon crumb topping. The classic deli pastry from old-school Brooklyn and Queens bakeries.

Baked pumpkin empanadas with a brandy-laced pastry dough and spiced pumpkin-brown sugar filling, finished with cinnamon sugar. A Mexican-Californian fall dessert pastry.

Linzer pastry dough with a full pound of butter, egg yolks, lemon zest, and vanilla. A rich, tender Austrian dough for jam-filled cookies, tarts, and meringue-topped pastries.