European Pastries: Croissant, Éclair, Macaron and Strudel

A tour of European bakeries: from France, the croissant, the buttery brioche, the éclair filled with cream, the delicate macaron, the profiterole and the crisp, heart-shaped palmier; the Napoleon, or mille-feuille, with its layers of puff pastry; Austria's apple strudel and Linzer cookies; and rugelach, the rolled pastry of Jewish bakeries.

Profiterole, at 11 letters, fills an entire row of the grid. No word is diagonal.

European Pastries Vocabulary: 10 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 6 of the 10 read backwards. The longest word is Profiterole, with 11 letters.

Brioche: A soft, rich French bread made with butter and eggs.
Croissant: A flaky, crescent-shaped French pastry made with layers of butter and dough.
Eclair: Éclair: a long choux pastry filled with cream and topped with chocolate icing.
Linzer: As in Linzer torte or Linzer cookies, almond pastry with jam from Linz, Austria.
Macaron: A light French sandwich cookie made of almond meringue with a creamy filling.
Napoleon: A pastry of puff pastry layers and cream, called mille-feuille in France.
Palmier: A crisp French pastry of rolled puff pastry and sugar, shaped like a palm leaf or a heart.
Profiterole: A small ball of choux pastry filled with cream and covered in chocolate sauce.
Rugelach: Small rolled pastries filled with jam, chocolate or nuts, from Jewish baking traditions.
Strudel: An Austrian pastry of paper-thin dough rolled around a filling, often apple.

How to Solve the European Pastries Word Search

"Profiterole" fills a whole row, reading normally. "Linzer" has the only Z and runs upward, like "brioche" and "palmier". "Croissant" has a double S and reads backwards, like "napoleon" and "rugelach".

Pastry Lesson and Bakery Visit Ideas

Match each pastry to its country on a map of Europe.
Visit a bakery and find as many of the pastries as you can.
Ask which pastries use puff pastry, choux pastry or yeast dough.