A pastry is kind of dough food made from ingredients such as flour, butter, baking powder and eggs that are rolled out thinly and used as the base for baked goods. Common pastries are usually pies, tarts, small cakes and quiches.

Making a pastry is not an easy task. A good pastry is light and airy, easily broken in the mouth, but firm enough to support the weight of the filling. The dough must be well mixed, but not overmixing the pastry, which results in long gluten strands and toughens the pastry. Therefore, the creation of good pastry is not something that could be achieved overnight.

As pastry must be baked to be edible, and pie fillings often do not need extra baking, many pie recipes involves baking the pastry before the filling is added in.

Below are some of the pastries available in confectioneries: