After a long period of development, pastry has been constantly innovated in countries all over the world, and different kinds of pastry characterized by regions have gradually emerged. For example, French pastry belongs to the modern school of pastry.

Western pastry is developed in the Mediterranean coastal areas. The Mediterranean Sea east-west length of 4000 kilometers, the widest north-south 1800 kilometers, the sea area of more than 250 square kilometers.

Geographic location is relatively special, is a piece of Europe, Asia and Africa border edge (the Mediterranean Sea north of the European continent, south of the African continent, the winter side of the Middle East in Asia), in ancient times, this is called the "rich crescent" of the land is the birthplace of Western civilization.

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The main ingredients used to make pastry are flour, sugar, butter, milk, vanilla powder and shredded coconut. Due to the high fat and protein content of pastry, sweet flavor but not greasy mouth, and beautiful style, so in recent years the sales volume is rising year by year. Western-style pastry is mainly divided into small snacks, cakes, shortening, mixed pastry and gas ancient five categories.

From foreign countries into China's pastry of the collective term, with the Western national style and characteristics. Such as German, French, English, Russian and so on.

Cake accounts for the main position of Western-style pastry, probably categorized cream cake, fruit cake, ice cream cake.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Western Pastry