How many calories in a Danish pastry
A Danish pastry has 380 kcal, with 21 g of fat.
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What the world calls a Danish, the Danes call wienerbrød, Viennese bread. It's laminated dough full of butter, with custard, jam or marzipan inside.
A bakery one is 380 kcal. The kanelsnegl, the cinnamon snail, is 420, because of the extra sugar and butter rolled into it.
In Denmark it's a weekend morning thing, from the bakery round the corner. That's the right way to have one.
Tips
- 1Cut it in half and share it with whoever's having coffee with you.
- 2Make it the weekend treat rather than the weekday breakfast.
Where it comes from
In 1850 Danish bakery workers went on strike, and the owners hired bakers from abroad, several of them Austrian. They brought the Viennese way of folding butter into dough in thin layers. Danish bakers kept it, added more egg and fat, and called the result wienerbrød, Viennese bread. Danish immigrants later took it to the United States around 1915, which is why the rest of the world calls it a Danish.
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Questions
Is a Danish pastry Danish?
It came to Denmark with Austrian bakers, which is why the Danes call it wienerbrød.
How many calories in a cinnamon snail?
About 420 kcal.
Is a Danish more than a croissant?
Yes. A bakery croissant is about 250 kcal, a Danish about 380, because of the filling and icing.
What is a tebirkes?
A Danish pastry made from the same buttery dough, folded round a sweet filling of butter, sugar and marzipan and covered in poppy seeds. Danes often have one with their morning coffee.
How many calories in a Danish and a latte?
About 530 kcal: 380 for the pastry and 150 for a regular latte. With a black coffee it's about 383.
