The combination croissant-donut is the summer's yummiest meme -- but does pastry chef Dominique Ansel's decadent creation have the legs of the mighty cupcake? By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer On ...

The original viral pastry is one decade old. Dominique Ansel’s doughnut-croissant hybrid debuted at the chef’s Soho bakery on May 10, 2013, and a new flavor has been released, never repeated, each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fast-forward to present day. This month, the Cronut is turning nine years old, and to celebrate, the Dominique Ansel Bakery is ...

Manhattan-based pastry chef Dominique Ansel shot to stardom in recent weeks, all thanks to the invention of a confectionery hybrid known as the cronut. Part-doughnut, part-croissant, the cronut has ...

Based in SoHo, a block from where the cronut began, French chef Gregory Doyen has introduced MOD, a new brownie with a cookie dessert. When French pastry chef Gregory Doyen opened MOD, his take-out ...

It’s rare that a French pastry chef requires private security. But for Dominique Ansel, it was an absolute necessity. “I had to push them back, almost like physically, and ask them to wait in line,” ...

Dominique Ansel created the biggest thing in pastry since sliced bread. Here, he shares his thoughts on creativity, baking, and life. It would be easy to dismiss Dominique Ansel, creator of the Cronut ...

The Cronut® is a tough act to follow, but the creator of that iconic dessert, Chef Dominique Ansel, is up for the challenge. He recently opened a new bakery, Papa d'Amour. Nestled in Manhattan’s Union ...

The first sentence of Dominique Ansel’s obituary is probably already written and it includes the phrase, “creator of the Cronut.” It’s not a bad legacy to leave behind. But ever since the French baker ...

More to the point, he is the inventor of the Cronut, the Frankensteinian love child of a croissant and a doughnut whose limited daily run inspires endless early morning queues, a New York tradition he ...