Welcome to TheBakingPan glossary. This baking glossary is a comprehensive assortment of dessert, pastry, and confectionery terms.

What is the difference between desserts, pastries, and confections, or are they actually the same thing? Almost but they’re not quite the same thing. Dessert is a general term for something normally served at the end of a meal, it can be hot or cold, and includes any number of sweet things such as cakes, pies, ice cream, cookies, pudding, fruits, and soufflés. Pastry may be sweet or savory, and refers to something made with dough, such as pies, quiche, tarts, and Danishes. Confections are small bite-size sweets, such as chocolates and candies.

A glossary is an alphabetized collection of specialized terms with definitions, in this case all terms related to baking. Hopefully within this baking glossary you will find what you are looking for, or learn a sweet fact you didn’t previously know.

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