The Cronut is a

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. It resembles a

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and is made from croissant-like dough filled with flavored cream and fried in

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. The Cronut was created and trademarked in 2013 by the French pastry chef Dominique Ansel.

Etymology

Cronut is a blend of (cro)issant and do(nut).

Origin

In 2013, the French bakery owner Dominique Ansel created the pastry out of dough similar to that of a croissant (a pastry that he had been more familiar with) with flavored cream inside. It took Ansel two months to perfect the recipe. Ansel introduced the Cronut on May 10, 2013, at Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York's

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neighborhood. That night, a blogger from ''Grub Street'', the online restaurant blog from ''

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'', reported on the new pastry. The post resulted in much interest and online circulation, and by the third day, a line of over 100 people had formed outside the shop to buy it. Within nine days of introducing the pastry, Ansel filed for a

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for the name "Cronut" at the

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, which was approved.

Similar products

After the release of the Cronut, similar products have sprung up throughout the world including some with different names such as the Kelownut, Doughssant, Crullant, zonut, and others. Dominique Ansel released an at-home Cronut recipe in his cookbook, ''Dominique Ansel: The Secret Recipes'', in 2015, for bakers to attempt in their own homes. Like the original pastry made at Ansel's bakeries, the process takes three days.

Reception

Writing for the ''

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'' in May 2013,

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proclaimed the Cronut Ansel's "masterpiece". ''

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'' named the Cronut one of the best "extremely fun" inventions of 2013.

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