French-American cuisine

Beignet ( , also , ; ) is a deep-fried pastry of French origin. It is commonly made from pâte à choux, but can also be made using rice flour (rice beignets) or yeast-leavened batters. Beignets can be served in a variety of preparations, the most common being dusted with confectioner’s sugar. The pastry is popular in French, Hungarian, Italian, and American cuisines.

thumb|Cronut cross-section The cronut (the name represents a portmanteau of croissant and doughnut) is a pastry developed and trademarked in New York in 2013 by the French pastry-chef Dominique Ansel. Resembling a doughnut, it is made from croissant-like dough filled with flavored cream and fried in grapeseed oil.