Pastry Recipes

Buttery, flaky, and completely irresistible. These pastry recipes bring bakery-style treats home, from simple puff pastry desserts to sweet rolls and special-occasion favorites.

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Lemon bars stacked and dusted with sugar

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Lemon Bars

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Cream puffs served dusted with powdered sugar surrounded by raspberries

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Cream Puffs Recipe (VIDEO)

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You haven't enjoyed an Eclair until you've tried a fresh homemade eclair! Learn how to make Eclairs with choux pastry, pastry cream and chocolate ganache. | natashaskitchen.com

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Classic Eclairs (VIDEO)

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Peach galette on parchment paper with fresh peaches

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Peach Galette Recipe (with Video)

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Two apple turnovers on a plate with apples in background

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Easy Apple Turnovers (VIDEO)

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Golden baked, flaky croissant

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Homemade Croissants (with Video)

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Cookies

Rugelach Cookies

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Blue plate with palmiers cookies piled on top

Cookies

Palmiers Cookies (Elephant Ears)

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Apple roses lined up on a plate with two apples

Fruit Desserts

Apple Roses Recipe (with Video)

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Zeppole donuts with powdered sugar

Pastries

Zeppole Recipe (with VIDEO)

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Cream puffs served dusted with powdered sugar surrounded by raspberries

Pastries

Cream Puffs Recipe (VIDEO)

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You haven't enjoyed an Eclair until you've tried a fresh homemade eclair! Learn how to make Eclairs with choux pastry, pastry cream and chocolate ganache. | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Classic Eclairs (VIDEO)

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Golden baked, flaky croissant

Pastries

Homemade Croissants (with Video)

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Dipping churro in chocolate sauce

Desserts

Churros Recipe (with Video)

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classic strawberry shortcake recipe using homemade biscuits, strawberries in sugar and whipped cream

Desserts

Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

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Crepe Recipe drizzled with honey and served with berries

Breakfast

Easy Crepes Recipe (VIDEO)

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Blueberry scone drizzled with lemon glaze

Breakfast

Blueberry Scones Recipe

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Classic baked scones drizzled with vanilla glaze, cut into wedges

Desserts

How to Make Scones (VIDEO)

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Lemon bars stacked and dusted with sugar

Desserts

Lemon Bars

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Close up of chocolate babka with a slice cut from the end.

Breads

Chocolate Babka Recipe

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Overhead view of a French-style fruit tart

Desserts

Fruit Tart Recipe with the Best Cream (VIDEO)

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Large bowl of pastry cream with spoon

Desserts

Pastry Cream Recipe (Crème Pâtissière)

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Desserts

Sweet Tart Crust (Pâte Sucrée)

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Peach galette on blue plate, topped with scoop of ice cream

Desserts

Peach Galette Recipe (with Video)

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cinnamon rolls in casserole dish with icing on top

Desserts

Cinnamon Rolls with Best Icing (VIDEO)

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Brioche bread pudding in casserole dish

Breakfast

Easy Bread Pudding Recipe

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Apple fritters coated in cinnamon sugar served on plate

Fruit Desserts

Apple Fritter Rings Recipe (VIDEO)

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Cheese danishes with lemon glaze

Desserts

Easy Cheese Danish Recipe (VIDEO)

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Stacked glazed donuts recipe

Desserts

Glazed Donuts Recipe (VIDEO)

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fudgy brownies stacked on parchment paper

Desserts

Fudgy Brownie Recipe (VIDEO)

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Berry Puff Pastry Tart with Flag Pattern

Desserts

Berry Puff Pastry Tart – Patriotic Dessert

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Pavlova served on a blue platter

Desserts

Pavlova Recipe (with Video)

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Two apple turnovers on a plate with apples in background

Desserts

Easy Apple Turnovers (VIDEO)

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stack of 3 baked donuts

Desserts

Baked Donuts Filled with Jelly (VIDEO)

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This Braided Easter Bread has the softest crumb. It is laced with farmer cheese and studded with apricots and orange zest which gives the entire loaf amazing flavor and aroma. Make this Easter Bread your new Easter tradition. This brings a cheese Paska and Classic Kulich together into 1 impressive Easter bread! | natashaskitchen.com

Breads

Cheese Filled Braided Bread Recipe

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This Apple Tart is a looker! It's crowned with a beautiful rose pattern of sliced apples (and it's easier than you think!). The juices from the cinnamon-sugar coated apple slices, bake into the buttery soft crust. This apple rose tart is lightly sweet and completely irresistible. | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Apple Tart Recipe (Apple Rose Tart)

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Mini Baklava Cups taste like authentic baklava but easier! The honey and lemon syrup make these baklava cups completely irresistible. A make-ahead recipe! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Baklava Cups Recipe

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Easy Almond Croissants with crispy edges, crunchy nuts, and moist inside. Watch the video recipe for almond croissants. Melt-in-your-mouth delicious! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Easy Almond Croissants (VIDEO)

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Zephyr is a Russian homemade marshmallows recipe - so fluffy with amazing blackberry flavor, and they melt in your mouth. How to make homemade marshmallows! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Homemade Marshmallows (Zephyr) VIDEO

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My Mother is famous for her Rugelach Recipe! These walnut-cranberry-apricot rugelach cookies are soft, crumbly, flaky, loaded! They always disappear fast! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Walnut Rugelach Recipe (VIDEO)

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An easy, no-bake Napoleon Cake with the same great flavors of a classic napoleon cake. The layers soften under custard cream making it irresistibly soft! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

No-Bake Napoleon Cake Recipe

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An Apple Danish Braid loaded with juicy caramelized apples and cranberries in a flaky pastry shell. This braided apple danish is easy and disappears fast! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Apple Danish Braid (VIDEO Recipe)

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You'll make this Pumpkin Bread over and over. Cinnamon rolls + pumpkin pie + amazing cinnamon glaze = this pull-apart pumpkin bread! It melts in your mouth! | natashaskitchen.com

Breads

Pumpkin Pull-Apart Bread

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Melt-in-you-mouth overnight cinnamon rolls with whipped cream cheese icing. Perfect for holidays and busy mornings. The best make-ahead cinnamon rolls! | natashaskitchen.com

Breads

Overnight Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

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Peach tartlets with juicy peaches, toasted almonds & vanilla glaze over a flaky crust. Puff pastry peach tartlets always get RAVE REVIEWS! Easy, excellent.. | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Easy Peach Tartlets Recipe

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Desserts

Blueberry Pierogi Recipe (VIDEO)

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Billowy soft and lightly sweet Donut Holes (Russian Ponchiki). These donut holes are made with cheese giving them unforgettable flavor. Easy donut recipe!

Desserts

Donut Holes (Ponchiki)

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Cranberry Orange Scones recipe - billow soft, crumbly and so easy! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Cranberry Orange Scones Recipe

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Hot Cross Buns Recipe. I loved how super fluffy these are! Great Easter tradition! @natashaskitchen

Desserts

Hot Cross Buns Recipe

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Desserts

Baklava Recipe

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Sweet Poppy Seed Buns; super soft and my family approved @natashaskitchen

Desserts

Sweet Poppy Seed Buns (Pirohi)

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The lemon curd pairs perfectly with the crumbly soft cookie and lightly sweetened cream. Great party dessert! @natashaskitchen

Desserts

Tartlets with Lemon Curd and Whipped Cream (Korzinki)

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These sweet cherry filled buns (vatrushki) are soft and fluffy. They kind of melt in your mouth and you won't be able to stop at just one.

Desserts

Farmer Cheese and Cherry Filled Buns

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These strawberry scones are soft and wonderful. I brought these over to my nieces birthday party and all 4 of my sisters asked for the recipe. Learn how to make strawberry scones! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Perfect Strawberry Scones

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