Pastry heart explained

Pastry heart
Country:	United States
Region:	Buffalo, New York
Type:	Pastry
Main Ingredient:	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.^[4]

See also

• Buffalo wings
• Garbage Plate
• Grape pie
• Loganberry drink
• Texas hots

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pastry Hearts Fill Us With Joy and Suspicious Sugar Paste. Buffalo Chow.com. January 1, 2008. 12 October 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090903221124/http://www.buffalochow.com/2008/01/pastry_hearts_win_clog_our_hea.html. 3 September 2009.
2. Web site: Nyhuis. Philip. Balistreri's: Making Bread the old fashioned way. Archives Summer 1999. Buffalo Spree Magazine. Summer 1999. 13 October 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080907173210/http://www.buffalospree.com/archives/1999_summer/sum99food.html. 7 September 2008.
3. Web site: Is Buffalo home of the pastry heart?. Krawczyk. Emeri. 2017-02-07. The Buffalo News. 2017-02-07.
4. Web site: Palmier. Food Dictionary. Epicurious. 13 October 2009.