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 ...

It's been just over two years since Dominique Ansel unleashed the Cronut, his improbable and wildly successful croissant-doughnut hybrid, on humanity. Almost since the moment his press release hit an ...

But that obsession had a dark twist this summer, when the cronut burger took the city by storm. For weeks leading up to the Canadian National Exhibition, the cronut burger, a hamburger patty between a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Incredibly long Cronut® lines are baaaaack: The hybrid pastry that set off mass hysteria back in 2013 landed in London today, and people began lining up at 5 a.m. to get a taste. The first European ...

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 ...

They were right in some ways. The Cronut’s debut did start an escalating game of hybrid rainbow pastry one-upmanship. But the Cronut also helped revive an interest in serious pastry, which now 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 ...

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 ...

WHO TRIED IT: Mark Marino, PEOPLE.com deputy editor, @mamarino WHY WE DID IT: Any excuse to eat doughnuts is reason enough. Confession time: I am obsessed with Dominique Ansel‘s magical confections.