Cronut

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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.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/06/great-idea-gone-girl-selfie-stick-cronut-tinder-emoji-gogglebox|title=Eureka! From Gone Girl to the selfie stick – how one great idea can change your life |date=November 6, 2015 |newspaper=The Guardian}}{{cite web |last=Shunk |first=Laura |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2013/12/dominique_ansel_interview.php |title=Cronut Wizard Dominique Ansel: 'I Want to Make the World of Pastry Exciting' |publisher=Blogs.villagevoice.com |date=2013-12-04 |access-date=2014-02-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213032322/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2013/12/dominique_ansel_interview.php |archive-date=2014-02-13}} It took Ansel two months to perfect the recipe.{{Cite web |last=Salter |first=Katy |date=2013-06-05 |title=The Cronut – the US pastry sensation that must cross the Atlantic |url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/05/cronut-pastry-sensation-croissant-doughnut |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}

Ansel introduced the Cronut on May 10, 2013, at Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York's SoHo neighborhood. That night, a blogger from Grub Street, the online restaurant blog from New York magazine, 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 trademark for the name "Cronut" at the United States Patent and Trademark Office,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/magazine/the-mysterious-persistence-of-the-cronut.html |title=The Mysterious Persistence of the Cronut |first=Brendan |last=O'Connor |date=May 8, 2015 |work=The New York Times Magazine}} which was approved.{{cite web |first=Katie |last=Little |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/06/07/cronut-mania-spawns-imitators-and-a-trademark-rush.html |title=Cronut Mania Spawns Imitators and a Trademark Rush |work=CNBC |date=2013-06-07 |access-date=2014-04-19}}{{cite web |work=United States Patent and Trademark Office |title=Official USPTO Notice of Acceptance Section 8: U.S. Trademark RN 4788108: CRONUT |url=http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85936327&docId=ORC20140114004524#docIndex=0&page=1 |access-date=30 January 2014 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509101017/https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85936327&docId=ORC20140114004524#docIndex=0&page=1 |url-status=dead }}

After the release of the Cronut, similar products have sprung up throughout the world including some with different names such as the Kelownut,{{cite web |url=https://infotel.ca/newsitem/sweet-news-a-kelownut-emergency-has-been-averted/it64541/ |title=The origin of the Kelownut and why they've been so hard to find lately |work=Kelowna News |date=2019-08-03 |access-date=2021-04-15 |first=Rob |last=Munro}} Doughssant,{{cite web |url=http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/the-cronut-er-thats-the-doughsant-has-arrived-in-st-louis/ |title=The 'Cronut'... Er, That's the 'Doughssant'... Has Arrived In St. Louis |work=KMOX |date=2013-07-08 |access-date=2014-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219035707/http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/the-cronut-er-thats-the-doughsant-has-arrived-in-st-louis/ |archive-date=2013-12-19 |url-status=dead |first=Brett |last=Blume}} Crullant,{{cite news |first=Tenny |last=Tatusian

|url=http://www.latimes.com/features/food/dailydish/la-dd-semi-sweet-bakery-cronut-20130627,0,1018661.story |title=Cronut in LA: Semi Sweet Bakery to introduce the Crullant |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=June 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705044632/http://www.latimes.com/features/food/dailydish/la-dd-semi-sweet-bakery-cronut-20130627,0,1018661.story

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}} zonut,{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/good-food/food-news/from-cronut-to-zonut-pastry-fever-comes-to-sydney-20130614-2o8hd.html |title=Good Food - From cronut to zonut, pastry fever comes to Sydney |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=2013-06-14 |access-date=2014-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828155819/http://www.smh.com.au/good-food/food-news/from-cronut-to-zonut-pastry-fever-comes-to-sydney-20130614-2o8hd.html |archive-date=2013-08-28 |url-status=dead |first=Inga |last=Ting}} and others.{{cite news |url=http://springfield.firstcoastnews.com/news/news/113833-cronut-craze-has-made-it-jacksonville |title='Cronut' craze has made it to Jacksonville |date=June 28, 2013 |work=First Coast News }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/213187261.html |title=A homemade version of the Cronut |newspaper=Star Tribune |date= March 30, 2015 |first=Kim |last=Ode}}{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/where-to-get-cronuts-in-london-8782157.html |title=Where to get cronuts in London |date=2013-08-23 |access-date=2015-09-24 |first=Wilkes |last=McDermid}}

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.{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://app.ckbk.com/recipe/secr64191c11s001r005/the-at-home-cronut-pastry |chapter=The At-Home Cronut™ Pastry |publisher=Murdoch Books |access-date=2020-01-16 |title=The Secret Recipes |first=Dominique |last=Ansel |year=2014 |isbn=978-1476764191}}

Writing for the Village Voice in May 2013, Tejal Rao proclaimed the Cronut Ansel's "masterpiece".{{cite web |first=Tejal |last=Rao |author-link=Tejal Rao |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2013/05/croissant_doughnut.php |title=The Cronut Is a Doughnut-Croissant Love Child |work=The Village Voice |date=2013-05-10 |access-date=2014-08-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814023207/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2013/05/croissant_doughnut.php |archive-date=2014-08-14}} Time magazine named the Cronut one of the best inventions of 2013.{{cite magazine |first=Carolyn |last=Griffin |url=https://techland.time.com/2013/11/14/the-25-best-inventions-of-the-year-2013/slide/the-cronut/ |title=The 25 Best Inventions of the Year 2013 |magazine=Time |date=November 13, 2013 |access-date=September 25, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114140820/https://techland.time.com/2013/11/14/the-25-best-inventions-of-the-year-2013/slide/the-cronut/ |archive-date=November 14, 2013}}

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