Does anyone know what pastry treat I'm talking about?
I had always called these things "elephant ears", but someone brought some in to work this morning, and they said they were called "prussians" (sp?). I looked up on wikipedia what elephant ears were, and I'm obviously wrong.
Anyways, I think it's considered a pastry, it's a treat that looks like it starts off as one long strip of dough and it's wrapped up and laid flat resembling kind of a heart shape (only without the point at the bottom). It's only delicately sugared - not iced - and baked to an almost crunchy or crusty consitency. It's very airy and not too sweet. If anyone know what I'm talking about, can you tell me what it's called and maybe send me a link with a pic. Thank you.
Just to reitterate the key traits, it is baked not fried. It is not baklava - somewhat similar in level of sweetness, but it doesn't usually come with nuts. It is NOT overly sweet. It does not have powdered sugar on it, but rather seems to be like sugar crystals that are sprinkled on before baking.
Not a croissant. It's not dough that's ROLLED up. And a croissant is fluffy and soft. This - like I said - is baked to a crunchy consistency. It's flat. It's a strip of dough - or pastry - that is rolled around in a pattern like a heart (picture rolling up your belt after you take it off, that's what I mean by a strip of something being rolled up).
John S, that's it! The "palm leaf" things. That's what I'm talking about. But I've never heard anyone call them that before. Does anyone else have another name for these things that this site calls "palm leaves" (look at answer from John S).