pastel
Definitions of pastel
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dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry toptypes:tartaa small open pie with a fruit fillingpastel de carnepie containing mincemeatpastel de manzanapie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugarpastel de merengue de limónpie containing lemon custard and topped with meringuepastel de arándanospie containing blueberries and sugarpastel de pacanapie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggspastel de calabazapie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugarpastel de calabazasimilar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkinempanadillasmall pie or pastyempanada de carnepie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit doughquichea tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)empanadillasmall meat pie or turnovertype of:
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baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fatsynonyms: tartatypes:pastel de manzanamoist spicy cake containing applesaucequesadillamade with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crustpastel de chocolatecake containing chocolatepastel de frutasa rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so ontartaany of various rich and elaborate cakesbizcochoa light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shorteningtarta nupciala rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding receptionpan de jengibrecake flavored with gingergalletaany of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)crepe, hojuela, panqueque, torta, tortilla, tortitaa flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddlegofrepancake batter baked in a waffle ironpastas de téflat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with teaperrunaa hard biscuit for dogsgalleta de jengibrea crisp round cookie flavored with gingerchurrosmall friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnutscrepesmall very thin pancaketortillathin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour
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any of various rich and elaborate cakes
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