The crookie is a mashup of the croissant and the all-American chocolate chip cookie (Credit: Emily Monaco) The croissant has been reimagined into a host of portmanteau pastries, from the cruffin to ...

France may have perfected the croissant, but it did not invent it. The pastry’s roots lead back to Austria, where an earlier crescent-shaped bread inspired what came later. French bakers refined the ...

There’s no better way to start the day than with a croissant, those golden warm cocoons of buttery crunch both messy and ...

One bite of a croissant just pulled from the oven at Michel Lyczak’s bakery in the southern Parisian suburb of Malakoff is bliss: a satisfying crunch and scattering of crumbs, the indulgent mouthfeel ...