Five European pastries you should give a try

Europe has a wide variety of pastries to offer. Each country has its own traditions and recipes. We present five European pastry highlights that you should definitely try. Our journey starts in Portugal and continues through Germany, France and Spain to England.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:18 Pastéis de Belém
01:42 Baumkuchen
03:06 Merveilleux
04:38 Churros
05:51 Scones
CREDITS
Report: Patricia Szilagyi
THUMBNAILS (left to right)
© picture alliance / Photo12 | Gilles Targat
© picture alliance / The Picture Pantry | Lisovskaya Natalia
© picture alliance / PHOTOPQR/OUEST FRANCE/MAXPPP | Marc OLLIVIER
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[@jlife9092]

Bravo to the commentator who had gotten all the different European accents and the pronunciations spot on!

[@nandinhocunha440]

Pasteis the nata. Portugal 🇵🇹

[@AriesSupertramp]

My vote goes to Pasteis de Nata.

[@BrownyBird]

100% with the churros and the Portuguese tart! The later is my all time favourite. Also with the carrot cake! 🎉🎉🎉

[@l.d.t.6327]

The portuguese ... what? Tart?

[@jmorello123]

Everything looked awesome! 👍

[@heartSLB]

Of these I’ve only had pastéis de nata and it is a real treat. Incredibly delicious.

[@qkwnwkw]

Where's the cannolis? 🇮🇹🤔

[@RendererEP]

They're nice, but overrated honestly. Sfogliatelle are much, much better

[@AndrewIndoChannel]

wait for part 2

[@qkwnwkw]

@@AndrewIndoChannel There's going to be a part 2? 🤔

[@kscptv]

You are dead right!

[@jaimegarcia9408]

​@@RendererEPsfogrietelle is really hojaldres. Sefardí invent, no italian

[@jaimelf1194]

Thank you Deutsche Welle, you just made my afternoon sweeter : -)

[@kscptv]

Hahaha Meggin Leigh enjoying her favourite at the end. Love it! I see she can cook up some amazing eats. 😊😊

[@MazTheMeh16]

2:12 that egg seperator is genius!

[@jaimegarcia9408]

Spain have a big tradition to dessert, best that churros. For example to hojaldres, bizcochos, rosquillas, turrones or tocino de cielo, the last dessert authentic delicious, a Jerez conventual sweet

[@Egr-et6ar]

Churros are from China. The Spanish horchata (a creamy summer drink made from the chufa nut, native to Africa) and turron (an almond nougat candy) still taste of their Moorish past. A perfect example of the sweet Moorish heritage is the soplillo de la Alpujarra. The Moors introduced almonds in pastry making, and now it's an essential part of Spanish gastronomy including the famous tarta de almendras in Spain. Other desserts influenced by the Moors are now also Christian inspired, such as torrijas de Semana Santa (Spanish french toast) and tocinos de cielo (egg and syrup flan). Could go on.

[@jaimegarcia9408]

​@@Egr-et6aryou are a authentic fake.😂😂 The chufa IS from África, yes and?. The horchata IS to valencia invent, some turrón, turrón the first reference IS in xixona and Alicante, valencia. Nougat IS a french copy. Pestiños, soplillo etc IS posible andalusí heritage. The churros from china IS 😂😂😂😂 ridículous. For the world, churros IS a spanish sweet, the machine that made churros IS spanish imvent, the churrero profession IS spanish, the tradition to eat with chocolate is spanish etc you hilarious. Not red wikipedia, wikipedia IS fake, IS a free Page

[@victorgomez4107]

​@@Egr-et6arAnd you? What are you made of? Where do your genes come from? Are you 100% pure and authentic?

[@Egr-et6ar]

@@victorgomez4107 Europeans have 3 common ancestors, indigenous hunter-gatherers, and the other 2 of them is Middle Eastern farmer DNA and Eurasian Steppe. Lounes Chikhi, from University College London, and colleagues estimated that Middle Eastern farmers contributed roughly 50 per cent of the analysed genes to modern European populations. Since modern-day northern Europeans descended in large part from the Corded Ware culture and therefore have more steppe ancestry than first-farmer ancestry. The modern populations with more Yamnaya-derived ancestry are, if I remember it correctly, the Norwegians and the Scottish.

[@markus129]

@@Egr-et6ar WE HAVE PRODUCT LIKE "JAMON", ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE CURE MEATS IN THE WORLD.. YOU SHOULD TRY IT HAHAHHAHA

[@GrandpaVince]

Grandma loves traditional corniche pasties

[@milospanic89]

Every country not only in the Europe has own pastry product!!! Best regards from Serbia 🇷🇸

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Semen Sperm USD SGD

[@fearnpol4938]

Cream and jam is what the English out on this Scottish treat. It is brilliant but we also bake them with treacle, raisins, or cheese. And then you have the best variety, the traditional Highland scone which is only ever made in a triangle and is a lighter tastier scone.

[@food449]

ماشاء الله تبارك الله رهيب جدا رووعة

[@estelaherrera5800]

Se ven sencillas de hacer, que pinta tienen

[@slogeswaran1]

French living their life

[@ApostolosKatsioulas]

Each country has some unique pastry, I haven't had any of the ones shown here. Should you come to Greece, galaktompoureko and mpougatsa are a must to try.

[@reverendbStaard]

Baumkuchen.🤤

[@berkosmansatiroglu]

like as doner ye.

[@berkosmansatiroglu]

churos made of Adana red lights street desert.

[@mimisor66]

Looks very tasty! Now go also East of Vienna and show us the great pastries there!

[@carlosdumbratzen6332]

Agreed. Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Greek pastries are awesome aswell

[@HristinaSedlackova]

It was perfectly clear from the second item that unterm*nschen pastries will not be shown. Some habits simply never go away. Funnily though, I expected them to at least sprinkle in some Austro-Hungarian pastries to make it a bit less obvious. Alas, DW staff really didn't feel like traveling to our icky countries and preferred a field trip to London. Cheeky Germans strike again.

[@Alfablue227]

Drooling here😊😊😊

[@Luxuriousaddicted]

Hi, my country is famous for fried bananas. New modified version is you can put some toppings like chocolate, cheese, and condense milk. Which is absolutely indulgence.

[@Viral-Food-Travel-Channel]

drooling

[@jaimegarcia9408]

Churros with chocolate is authentic delicious. In Spain the hot chocolate espeso is a art from era medieval monacal.

[@Egr-et6ar]

Churros are from China. Hot chocolate is from Mexico.

[@jaimegarcia9408]

​@@Egr-et6arhot chocolate "sweet" IS spanish monacal invent, IS history, and the churros origin china to repeat IS ridículous!!!! Not documentary,churros IS a spanish word, a medieval castilian sweet, and the tradition to churros with chocolate is spanish invent. When spanish Discovery cacao in Azteca empíre, introducing in Spain,here the monacal spanish introducing sugar, the sugar not exist in América to arrived the spanish. You are authentic fake. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jaimegarcia9408]

@@Egr-et6ar churros sound very china, of course jajaja 🤣🤣 churros IS medieval castilian sweet. And the sweet chocolate is a spanish monacal invent. The sugar not exist in América to arrived spanish. You theory is fake

[@Egr-et6ar]

@@jaimegarcia9408 The sugar no exist in Spain. Sugar is from Asia.

[@renato4183]

Portuguese tarts and the Spanish churros are the best

[@Egr-et6ar]

Churros are from China, not Spain.

[@jaimegarcia9408]

​@@Egr-et6ar😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@hawkingdawking4572]

​@@Egr-et6ar Says who?😂😂😂

[@dannyesse3043]

Churros is probably the worst, just fried dough.

[@Egr-et6ar]

@@hawkingdawking4572 G00gle.

[@food449]

تسلم الايادي حبيبتي

[@dalinaddei]

Perfect speaking from the commentator!

[@Martin_Priesthood]

Pastry that makes you dizzy 🤯😂🤤😋😋

[@foxwitch]

try a Swedish kladdkaka, easy to make at home, serve with whipped cream. It should be sticky ;)

[@SPFCAdriano]

Muito bom 😋

[@SuneBerlin]

Banitza, sweet or salty . For Bulgaria and the Balkan countries...

[@NGeo-ci3qj]

And Apfel Strudel from Vienna?

[@vaughnwilliams1208]

They were all wonderful, the German was the most unique. Love clotted cream

[@FireRaptor100]

You can avoid lines at Chocolateria San Gines by going there early in the morning, it is worth

[@mjpspit]

Merveilleux originates in Belgium by the way.

[@suicaholic]

Pastry makes us happy 🍰

[@reverendbStaard]

Lángos next?😍

[@paulo-magum3621]

Im from Portugal- And Pateis de nata are not even in my top 10 of portuguese pastry - My favourite is pasteis de tentugal made by monks

[@vitoroliveira8290]

Pastéis de te tentugal C*rAlHo

[@edi2o9]

roomboter kaneel knoop missing from the list. That pastry is goated

[@user-fz1yv7lh8y]

💚💛 Adorable.

[@yatithebeast]

I’m offended that not a single Italian desert was named. There’s cannoli, gelato, sfogliatella, tiramisu just to name a few

[@RobertSmith-up9rz]

It’s all gross, except for gelato… which is not a “pastry”.

[@Wotanraven]

Pasteis de Nata mostly tastes to me like a tiny flan. Yet even here in France where every pastry shop sells slices of flans, some do offer pasteis de nata too. I guess it's popular because it's like a smaller bit sized portion ?

[@l.d.t.6327]

It's really not the same as flan. pasteis has thickcrunchy puff pastry, vanilla and the interior is thick / creamy while flan is soft throughout with a very thin crust and no vanilla.

[@dianahahnacuna1227]

Churros too, of course.

[@patypami16]

Cannelés de Bordeaux 🤤

[@hugolobo2486]

Pasteis de nata de best🇵🇹

[@neilsolomon9149]

I absolutely love English scones. 🇬🇧

[@Cloud_JOB]

I don't love the cross, but I appreciate your love for the Cross. Happy Easter - the Son of God

[@ryzha6]

Baumkuchen is a pale version of the Lithuanian šakotis cake, which also would have added some diversity to this exclusively Western European spread.

[@kommad.2931]

I'd like to try that some day too. Baumkuchen seems to have been invented earlier though with the first recipe dating back to the 16th century. So, whether pale or not, that might be a reason why baumkuchen is better known and šakotis cake might rather be a different version of baumkuchen. ;-)

[@adapienkowska2605]

@@kommad.2931 the pastry from France was also a variation of another pastry.

[@dianahahnacuna1227]

Paparajotes from Murcia, Spain.

[@ChantaltheFrency]

Where are Belgian waffles?

[@ahfei6847]

Une petite tarte au citron meringuée, y'a qu'ça d'vrai

[@Humbledandelion]

Powded sugar is not added traditionally to the Pasteis de Nata. Thats just something they give to weird foreigners. The pastry is sweet enough and adding more sugar makes it it too sweet. Cinnamon is great tho.

[@ithmith]

The Portuguese tart is called Pastéis de Nata. Not pastéis de Belém. That’s a brand.

[@fatsilver5905]

They started as Pasteis de Belem... When others started replicating them they called them pasteis de nata

[@dhsf5937]

They are called pastéis de Belém, pastéis de Nata is another thing.

[@endlessdreamkitchen]

💙💙💙💙

[@mrnm6482]

Where is the Bossche Bol?!?!? As a Dutch I'm disappointed

[@priscorodrigues5460]

I am Goa, India. Bebinca is rhe best Goan sweet

[@daSrilankanCat]

Churro originated from Youtiao which is chinese snack

[@Temptation666]

what is your home country famous for? Well I am Danish so take a guess

[@kommad.2931]

Hot dogs?

[@monkmind6121]

These r best cinnamon from Sr Lanka ( Ceylon cinnamon).

[@hugosequeira2997]

Would rather have Belgian Gaufres than Scones...

[@mgithaiga1]

Tea and Mandazi

[@darthozoz]

Tulumba Lokum Şöbiyet Kabak tatlısı Kazandibi Guess the country

[@davidcole8268]

Uh, no sultanas in the scones? Shocking.

[@irinkauzinchonok1458]

The most beautiful and delicious cakes, pies and desserts you can find in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.😋🤤

[@mcastillano7109]

chimney cake pls

[@sd-ch2cq]

🤤🤤🤤

[@nanthapongsornkaew]

Time to have a sweet tooth.

[@REMPLACEMENT-TV]

France is n°1 in pastries

[@jonasholmqvist5231]

Pastéis de Belém really is amazing - but ONLY those from the original bakery shown in the video!! Far too many tourists confuse the pastéis de nata (sold everywhere across Lisbon) with the real thing. They are worlds apart.

[@Palmieres]

Not exactly true. Several small pastry shops have far better pastéis than the ones in Belém. The reason why people (well, tourists) favour the ones in Belém is because the demand from that shop is so high that the pastries are always sold as they get out of the oven. If you let them rest for a couple of hours they end up tasting exactly like the ones sold in other shops. And the demans is high because Belém is a very popular neighbourhood for tourism, the lines go on forever and the factory must keep baking them on and on throughout the day. If you go to Manteigaria (another very famous pastry shop), you'll get the same quality. Notice how there are nearly no Portuguese customers at the Belém shop? That's because we know where to find other equally good or even better pastéis in other places. There's no secret to these pastries, anyone can make them at home. The only thing is, if you buy them, buy them fresh, and they'll be almost always fantastic.

[@dannyesse3043]

Scones win it easily here

[@dgib1694]

Scones, are you serious?

[@oliviero350]

how scones are on this list lol

[@lucylane7397]

Have you had a real scone with clotted team and jam not one of those overly sweet American things

[@bananaempijama]

Pastel de nata CARALHO!!!! 🇵🇹

[@jedidiahe320]

Control your carb intake guys...

[@monkmind6121]

Cedric goulet pastry of French .

[@jaimegarcia9408]

This Patry IS hojaldre, the hojaldre is sefardí.

[@danielinciongtungol9338]

I really love portugal's dessert, but here in Filipinas we also have churros but the other desserts I love in my country that is pastry is ensaymada with ube.

[@jaimegarcia9408]

The churros and ensaimadas, is dessert the spanish origin. Made in filipinas for Spanish heritage. The ensaymada born in mallorca , IS a symbol to Mallorca culture

[@Egr-et6ar]

⁠@@jaimegarcia9408Churros are from China and the Ensaïmada tells of the history of the Romans and the Moors who once ruled Mallorca and then left their food traditions behind. The word “saim” comes from the Arab word for pork fat (lard).

[@jaimegarcia9408]

@@Egr-et6ar what? What? Churros china? Ohh my goodness jajaja jajaja churros IS a china word of course of course, sound vey china. And casually churros eat in ancient Spanish territory, latín América and filipinas, IS not casually.But you leyend fake better IS the origin ensaimada jajaja 🤣🤣 moors? Moors? Imposible moor because ensaimada made with pig grass, pig!! Ans Románs? Jajajaja write in a book, in painting? Noooo. Really IS the first reference write IS to mallorca, and the people mallorca difunding and popularation in the world, ahh, ensaimada IS a Mallorca word. Egr, Not read Wikipedia, wikipedia IS fake

[@jaimegarcia9408]

@@Egr-et6ar what? What? Churros china? Ohh my goodness. churros IS medieval spanish sweet, IS documentary, churros not sound to word chinesse, churros eat in ancient Spanish territory, América latina and filipinas, IS not casually. But you leyend of origin ensaimada IS better, moors? Romans? Moors is imposible because the Mallorca ensaimada made with pig, pig!! And the romans origin not exist date, not write, no pain. The unique really IS that the first reference write to ensaimada IS in Mallorca. And the Mallorca local people difunding for the world . Wikipedia IS a fake. Not read more here

[@Egr-et6ar]

@@jaimegarcia9408 Portuguese explorers brought youtiao back, and it evolved into the star-shaped dessert that we know today. Recipes from the 12th century even indicate that a fried food akin to a churro existed during Moorish Spain, whereas mentions of a churro-like food in 8th and 9th-century Arab texts imply that the fried food could have Arabic roots as well.

[@eadruna]

Scone is my most fav

[@MrFiask]

No one i know ever ate baumkuchen in germany

[@OlgaMariaCarcamo]

Amo los churros pero le hacen mal a mi pancita :(

[@marcinantczak3381]

Where pączek?!

[@pinkyrose732]

Les merveilleux ne sont pas representatif par rapport aux autres spécialités. Je ne connais que la chaine de ce patissier qui en fait. Les autres spécialités sont vraiment connu dans tous leur pays et au delà...

[@frbboy]

As a Dane I would say Danish lol.

[@user-vo5mf3ly9s]

Where is Greek loukoumades????

[@pandamilkshake]

Really? From all the absolutely delicious deserts we have, you picked churros? Come on 😭

[@florianpeter7045]

Baumkuchen einfach deutscher Dönerspieß

[@user-rf8wr8nu7i]

Weird choice not to include Vienna, where many of the popular pastries ("Viennoiseries") come from, Baumkuchen exists in many different forms all over Europe, and lastly: why scones, undoubtedly the least imaginative pastry around the world?!

[@veladarney]

Because fresh, still slightly warm scome + fresh clotted cream + fresh jam (personally, I prefer raspberry over strawberry) = heaven

[@andreaontour8961]

Scones are delicious!

[@HristinaSedlackova]

@@veladarney What exactly is a non-fresh jam?

[@nocontent2027]

habibi come to india

[@user-us5gt1ug8h]

Indian sweets are as colourful and vibrant as our culture,very diverse and infinite varieties to suit every palette and taste

[@sumitagarwalsmart]

Rasgulla from India is not a pastry, but you must try it! Also, gulab jamun. Also, Ras Malai! I can have Rasmalai and Rasgulla all day long!!!

[@Aska-gx8gx]

Europe is not only France, Germany, Spain and England, it's strange that you haven't added Italy too🙄

[@RobertSmith-up9rz]

That’s because none of Italian desserts deserve to be included. Just stick to boring pasta-pizza.

[@Nanetteb]

I thought churros are Mexican.I’m glad I saw this video that it’s from Spain after all.

[@ericktellez7632]

The Spanish traditional churros are thicker and come with chocolate sauce, the Mexican ones are not as thick and they are a lot sweeter, the dough in Spain is a lot simpler while in Mexico is made with sweeteners and uses cinnamon

[@Egr-et6ar]

@Nanetteb Churros are from China, not Spain.

[@Egr-et6ar]

@@ericktellez7632Churros are from China.

[@jaimegarcia9408]

The spanish introducing churros and other food in América y filipinas. The spanish Discovery cacao in México , when introducing sugar the spanish monacal invent to sweet chocolate and here born chocolate with churros.

[@jaimegarcia9408]

​@@Egr-et6ar😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 churros sound very china 😂😂😂😂😂

[@anderspedersen7488]

Danish pastry!

[@vladimirprostran1896]

Nothing from the former Eastern European countries? Seriously?

[@kaspershaupt]

Baklava left the chat

[@funkmachine9094]

oh great, i can't eat any of these delicious pastries...

[@monmon3681k]

Scones are not that good 🤷‍♀️

[@fatsilver5905]

Please remember to pronounce the "j" in Portuguese words😒 They are not south americans...

[@markus-ks9sf]

Overshadowed

[@Tztimelord]

As a Turk i watched with a smile on my face. Especially that cream strawberry thing 🤣

[@ipilaitela7115]

It's almost a crime that you didn't mention Finnish or Swedish cinnamon rolls.

[@Gregoire3086]

Pastels from Portuguese are Parisian vanilla flan but in less good

[@HoNow222]

No italy? fffffffsh

[@RobertSmith-up9rz]

Let me guess: baked pasta? Nutella on pizza? lol

[@HoNow222]

@@RobertSmith-up9rz let me guess: dumb north american?