Though the chestnut pastry tastes like nothing of the kind ($2.80), and the brioche is too sweet for its cream cheese filling ($2), a puff-pastry leaf topped with caramelized sugar is nutty with butter and nicely balanced by lemon and salt ($1).
The Apple Ugly muffin, for instance, looks like some kind of alien horse apple but the crispy bits of fruit and pastry taste fabulous with one of their huge ceramic cups of rich, hot coffee.
Everything at City Bakery, from the creamy, rich hot chocolates, to the flaky croissants to the wonderfully buttery tarts and pastries, tastes intensely the way it ought to.
mcdonald's new pastries taste really good btw *A*.
She dislikes the taste of soya, so she invented a lightly baked soya pastry that tastes of cheese, is crispy, has soyabeans rattling inside it and can sit on a desk or even on a bar for months without going soggy.
Homemade pastry always tastes better.
Puff pastry will taste flat and greasy and will not color.
Fortunately, Delia has a middle way – "quick and easy flaky pastry" – which tastes just as good as the real thing, and is as light "as a whisper", or so she says.
We had honey one day, thickly peopled with ants, but honey, and apple pie made of little burned apples, topped with pastry that tasted like damp cotton wool layered with scorched brown paper.
— Patrick Farrell The Economist: It's called SoyCarat, a lightly baked soybean pastry that tastes of cheese, and has arrived in Japan just in time to address a growing concern — that the Japanese are getting fatter and developing coronary-artery disease, because they're increasingly munching fatty, salty Western-style chips.
