Danish or Pain aux Raisin?

lion_bar

I was in a cafe recently and i asked for a pain aux raisin, the waitress looked at me blankly, my two year old said "a swirly croissant" and she said oh you mean a Danish.

I didn't think I meant a Danish, I thought I meant the thing on display that looked and tasted like a pain aux raisin.

when is something a danish and when is it a pain aux raisin?

Exon

Somethings Danish when you're a noob

star-pants

Danishes (that I'm aware of) are usually what is a pan au raisin - I'm not sure why but they're called fruit danishes here. Most people probably wouldn't know pan au raisin as the name for it. Heck I call it a danish

So fruit danishes or danishes similar are like this


Pan au chocolat are usually


edit - sorry I'm making a pigs ear of this thread lol
So basically if you google a raisin danish, you get something that looks like a pan au raisin.
The names mean the same thing really, pan au raisin - bread with raisins, fruit/raisin danish = specific style pastry/bread with raisins.

So it's just a name thing really

Magic Monkey

Danish is a type of sweet yeast dough, that is laminated, or folded, similar to puff pastry, to make it light and flaky. "Pain aux raisin" is a pastry made either with danish or laminated brioche dough (either way, both are sweet yeast doughs) and raisins. A "Danish" is just a pastry made from danish dough. It can have many inclusions (e.g. raisins) or fillings (e.g. pastry cream).

You can get away with asking for croissants or pain aux chocolat in most cafés, but I wouldn't bother asking for anything else using their French names, it sounds kind of pompous and the waiter probably won't understand you. In this case, I'd just ask for a "raisin swirl."