Popular for millennia, pastries are celebrated with a food holiday on December 9, encouraging all of us to bake and eat our favorites, whether they be made of flaky, shortcrust, phyllo, or puff pastry.

Primarily observed in the USA, this unofficial food holiday emerged from the social media of the mid-1990s in California and spread internationally, honoring the long history of pastry and the skill and creativity of pastry chefs.