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There are many different types of pastries, including sweet bread, cookies, biscuits, and many more. Pastries are delicacies which can be experimented with and invented with similar items like never before. Pastries are sweet and simply awesome; they touch your soul and hit the right sweet spot. There is something or another for everyone, from people who like sweets to people who like bread to people who don't like sweets but savoury pastry items.
The options are endless, and the varieties are tastiest like never before. There are puff pastries, filo pastries, those made with special batters and many more. The wide range of pastries to be served at parties is to make the guest feel welcome and serve something light that can go according to the occasion with cocktails, tea or snacks. Even different kinds of flaky Indian sweets or jalebi is considered a sweet pastry which comes under the category of dessert.
Pastries are best paired with coffee, milk, tea, hot beverages, cold beverages or cocktails. On the other hand, pastries can be served as a dessert according to people's preference of heavy or light. Let us Discover seven elevated pastries to serve during the New Year Party 2024.
1. Paneer Curry Puff
One of the favourite student snacks that you can have is paneer Curry puffs. Paneer is a kind of cottage cheese which is made into a savoury filling. The filling is made with lots of spices and curry powder, which enhances the taste, and it is baked into deliciousness with the lightest puff pastry dough.
Baked with a little bit of butter and sugar sprinkled on top. The deliciousness can be made into different fillings such as paneer chilli filling, paneer garlic filling, paneer corn filling, Palak paneer filling, and many more. No matter the filling, paneer puffs remain top tier for your new year party in 2024.
2. Gyeongju Bread
Gyeongju Bread is a delicious pastry which is authentic to South Korea and is made with very concentrated efforts. Gyeongju Bread has a filling of red bean paste. One can also spot these pastries locally sold in the form of fish, also known as Fish cake. The red bean paste is like a chocolate filling but a little less sweet with an earthy texture.
This is locally eaten in Korean streets and is a delicious snack to make your party awesome. It is light and soft. It goes very well with chocolate or any kind of flavoured milk. You can also swap traditional red bean filling for a different filling when making it at your home.
3. Beignets
Imagine you want a pakora, but you have a sweet tooth and want it soft, similar to puffs and cinnamon buns. Deep fried Beignets are similar to fritters with the choice of dough and filling you like. Brown or white sugar with Cinnamon dust is sprinkled on top to enhance the taste and it goes very well with Espresso or dark chocolate.
This delicacy originated in France, and it has more than 20 variations and fillings for one to choose from. From chocolate fillings to pistachio feelings everything can be customised in this fried goodness hitting the right spot. You must try this in your New Year party to make the starters pop.
4. Budapest Roll
Budapest Roll is one of the most authentic pastries that can be served with fresh cream, and the cake roll which is served with fresh fruits and sprinkled sugar to make it more moist and light. This pastry is very refreshing and cloudy, similar to a cake, but is more buttery and creamy.
Budapest Roll originated from Sweden, and it is the most loved pastry worldwide because of its various flavours and versatility. It can be a Vanilla, chocolate, pistachio, strawberry or any kind of filling one like. It is also sprinkled with different kinds of nuts and sugar dust or sprinkles to make it more elevated.
5. Baklava
You might have heard what a Baklava pastry is. It originated from Turkey and is a goodness of nutty delight and layers of pastry soaked into a sugar syrup. The pastry is very delicious and tedious to make. Presenting your guest with a good piece of baklava can elevate your pastry game and make a name for yourself in the new year party of 2024.
Finding a good BakLava place is very difficult to find. There are at least 100 layers of baklava, and each layer should feel very light and crispy instead of dipped in heavy sugar with lots of nuts. An authentic baklava will never have a heavy feeling to it with lots of oil and sugar, but it will feel light and creamy.
6. Raspberry Linzer Cookies
Pastries for parties are incomplete without a cookie, simple yet delicious to snack on while a delightful conversation is going on. Raspberry Linzer Cookies is one of those cookies that are very delicious and simple with Almonds and nuts filled with strawberry jam in the centre. These cookies are very light and buttery. It can also be served as a side of pudding.
The cookies can have different kinds of jam, such as Orange jam or strawberry jam, but traditionally, it is filled with mixed fruit jam. Cookie dough is made with different kinds of nuts, mainly almonds and pistachios as toppings. White sugar and cinnamon dust are sprinkled on top to elevate the taste.
7. Kanafeh
If you love cheese pastries and sweets, then this is heaven for you. Kanafeh is one of the most unique and authentic pastry dishes that originated from Middle Eastern Asia. It is made with a special kind of dough and is loaded with lots of pistachio and different kinds of nuts dipped into a special sugar syrup.
The layering of dough, cheese, sugar syrups and nuts is constantly cooked into a pattern to make this deliciousness. The sugar syrup is made with tedious efforts of more than 5 hours, and it is the star of the show. If you haven't tried this pastry yet you should try it at your new year party 2024.
