The croissant craze: Croissants have taken New York by storm


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At Lafayette Bakery, this viral TikTok croissant riff regularly sells up to 1,000 pieces a day! — NEW YORK DESSERTS/Instagram

Manhattan is a bagel city, a pizza city, and ... a croissant city? 

Over the last dozen years, ingenious chefs have focused their attention on transforming the classic pastry. Since the days of the Cronut, New York-based bakers have been modifying butter-laminated dough to create everything from Sicilian pizzas to a Dubai-style chocolate bar patisserie.

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