Breakfast Pastries Crossword Puzzle

About the Breakfast Pastries Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle covers pastries commonly enjoyed at breakfast or brunch, including flaky croissants, fruit-filled turnovers, glazed doughnuts, and cinnamon rolls. It also features regional and European favorites such as kolache, rugelach, paczki, and pain au chocolat. Pastry fans, home bakers, and anyone building a breakfast-themed word list will recognize the treats hidden in the grid.

This crossword draws on 40 clues about Breakfast Pastries. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Braided Eastern European sweet loaf (5 letters)
• •Rich, buttery French breakfast bread (7 letters)
• •Crumb-topped treat served with a hot morning drink (10 letters)
• •Fried ring often topped with icing or sprinkles (8 letters)
• •Portable pastry pocket with a sweet filling (7 letters)
• •Sugared spiral pastry with spiced layers (10 letters)
• •Hollow baked roll that rises dramatically (7 letters)
• •Thin layered pastry wrapped around a sweet filling (7 letters)

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