Trying the Fattiest Pastry in Europe
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- Made of 30% butter and 30% sugar, the Kouign-amann is pure pleasure. This divinely rich pastry comes from the coastal town of Douarnenez, France, where it was accidentally created in 1860 by a busy baker who had run out of pastries to sell. Quickly, he combined bread dough, butter and sugar, yielding what is now a quintessentially Breton treat. So go ahead. Treat yourself.
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Douarnenez: We could make this healthier , but that's not how things are done in Douarnenez.
America: *deep fries a stick of butter*
weaselmaster98
Honestly I could see it happening
Oh god what now, a scientist has made unmeltable butter.
Hahahaha it's funny because it's TRUE sadly.
The problem with that, is that it would just taste bad. Don't need to make things healthier if you just don't eat too much of it
America: ugh deep fried butter that is bland LET’S DEEP FRY SOME DELICIOUS WATER
''Thierry speaks in a foreign language'' oh captions, what would I do without you
I liked the part where it covered the actual subtitles
that subtitle is literally more useless than the word "useless"
Subtitles when Thierry speaks: *Thierry speaks in a foreign language*
*speaks in japenease*
if they atleast said what language is (french)
Deaf people: 🤯
I only liked this because I was the 300 st liker
But it covers the actual subtitles. horrible.
France: this is the fattiest pastry in Europe!
America: wrong
France: but you're not in Europe.
thank you!
@@oceanegaudin1005 you're welcome
get rekt
House Targaryen The US military literally annexes Doanenezz(I’m so sorry but I butchered the town name), so the pastry from the video is now an American food.
@@Eaaaaaaa472 But it's a French town
When I moved out of my parents place to go to college in Bretagne (the region the pastry in from) I was super sad and lonely so I would go back to Paris to see my parents every week end.
On the Friday I decided to bring back a big box of mini Kouign-amann so my family could try them.
At night before taking my train in the morning I decided I was gonna try one mini pastry as I never had them before. Blew my mind. Tried another one. And another one. At this point the box is half empty so I am like I can’t bring that back to my parents, I ll just buy another box tomorrow.
I ended eating the 16 mini pastries that were in the box and felt so dead I coudnt move and take my train. Worst sugar high/ butter paralysis You can imagine. I don’t recommend.
Don’t eat that much butter, it’s not good for you.
Lol is it that good? Isn't this just like croissant?
@@ytuseracct it's exactly like a croissant but between the layers of dough and butter there's also the sugar. The sugar will dissolve and caramelize which gives it its insanely rich flavour in combination with the butter. I've tried my hand on making it a couple of times but it's very hard to do. Imagine learning to make a proper croissant, being avarage with it and then add a whole new layer of difficulty. Needless to say I failed at least 3 times before I actually got it kind of right.
caroline dehaye u say we shouldn’t have t bib tu had 16
I should never be allowed near a shop that sells these
@@TheGroundedCoffee i would never attempt this. Its just too labor intensive. The minute the dough starts to warm you have to cool it again or else the layers wont form. Thankfully, there is a pastry shop in my city that makes these so i just buy them.
Honestly have no idea why people are freaking out about kouign amann when brownies are literally 40% sugar 30% butter then blondies are 50% sugar and 30% butter. In fact, American pastry in general has a tendency to have a sugar content of at least 35%. (I'm a pastry chef)
inb4: people saying it depends yaddi-yaddi-yadda--well, to make these pastries the way they are traditionally made with the specific qualities that make it what it is (brownies/blondies being that crinkly top, gooey/fudgey quality, etc) well guess what--it requires a LOT of sugar.
Protip if your brownies/blondies are failing to look instagrammable, it's most likely that you attempted to cut the sugar (or the recipe's author did, and the photo is a lie) so your batter doesn't have enough excess sugar to produce the crystallized top.
Ha, ha… Have you had a Cinnabon cinnamon roll? I love sugar but one bite was enough and even that one bite should have been a very small bite. I'm guessing the sugar must be somewhere around 90%!
When I started at culinary school in Gwangju, my head chef told me one very simple rule. "Sugar makes pastries taste good, butter makes pastries taste great."
so you should sprinkle sugar on top of the brownie batter before it enters the oven, just letting it sink into the topmost layer?
@@Crosshill I wouldn't reccomend it because diabetes exists, but sure. Admittidly I do not have much of a sweet tooth.
@@Nogu3 If I eat a maximum of a small piece of brownie then I want that small piece of brownie to be worth a large piece of brownie
I dont have a sweet tooth either
Im french and my grandma somtimes makes this for birhdays and stuff. Its really good
Mr_Psyco I actually did one time
Do you, grandma and everyone else take one bite and say, "Okay, I'm good!" then go for a walk? I think I'll like a taste. But... I don't like to waste food so I will probably gobble it all up!
Please link to a good recipe of this pastry.
Lol can I hire your grandma? This stuff looks delicious.
U should post her recipe ^-^
Here in england we have butter, and that's at least 100% butter.
Nah man you won't believe it's butter. I was abused and fed me that nasty larpak stuff
Lurpac is the shit best butter
@@tealover9063 How is it nasty? If i may ask.
Whoa
I tries a deep fried mars bar and pizza from scotland and nearly died
Everyone talking about America. Yes, but this, this is really good.
This, this is beghutiful
also america is not in europe
As a fat stupid gun toting American, I would LOVE it if you people could find something better to talk about. Thank you.
@@williwonti it's a stereotype for a reason
Man everyone always calling us fat but they forget about the Arab countries. And Britain, they're pretty fucking fat. Canada is getting there. Why cant we all just be fat in harmony.
I lived in Douarnenez for a few months in 2018 and the first thing I did when I arrived in that place was to go to that exact same bakery and try the kouign-amann and it blew my mind, it's absolutely delicious. We use to reheat it in the oven for a few minutes to make it even better and it pairs great with apple cider. I miss that town.
i feel like EVERYTHING pairs well with apple cider but then again, i love apple cider and am biased lol
"We could make it healthier, but that's not how it's done" my guy, couldn't've put it better
*PAULA DEAN HAS JOINED THE CHAT.*
I am dying... Nice one!
I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SAY THIS 😭😭😂😂
*n word has joined the chat*
butter
Who?
Jokes on you.. I’m the fattest pastry in Europe!!! Hahah
*Cries in self esteem issues*
Miyushi Dharmaratne dead inside LOL
surrender the title im the fattiest pastry
ME
@some person Butter with sugar
Don't worry, that means you're a *SNACC*
The fattiest dessert in Europe is the healthiest pastry in America. Lmao
Nah
Nah definitely not. There's many healthy pastries in America, it's just that everyone eats junk
1000 Subs For Grandpa! A browney literally has more sugar and fat than this
You'd be surprised how much health food we have here. It's just expensive, and our other option is home cooking which most people are too overworked to do for all their meals, so they rely on whatever's quickest and least expensive. Our economy is pretty much the root of the problem, I believe if healthy food was more accessible the obesity rate would go down dramatically. Most people want to get in shape and simply can't.
Sophisticated Pajamas yes, this is exactly what I think. For the price of an apple, you can get an entire meal at a fast food place!
It’s amazing how many distinct pastries can be made using identical ingredient lists, their identity ultimately lies in the proportions and baking process!
France: We’re really pushing it with this butter cake.
America: *HOLD MY FRIED STICK OF BUTTER!*
Difference is butter in France is actual butter
@@valentinstrauss595 Commentaire tellement sous-côté
do people actually eat...deep fried...butter.....°-•
@@somekid2375 it's just a joke, or is it.....? 🤨😏
@@somekid2375 It's a thing usually exclusively for fairs, like funnel cake.
I saw this and immediately gained 3 lbs
ok
Ok
wtf is a lbs
Justin. Y the 2nd
Isn't lb like, to measure fish only? Because everyone I know uses kg
Man, there's something comforting about the idea of learning a craft from your father. That kind of continuity goes back to the very birth of cities, and beyond...
"A specialty of northern France" well I think that all the Bretons will have a heart attack by hearing that hahaha. Kouign Amann is from Bretagne which is west of France
Canadian of breton decent here. I completely agree, I did eat this with my grandfather every weekend for it to be called "northern French"😂
When I saw the title, my French blood immediately knew
I knew from “the fattiest pastry in Europe” that it will be from france
Because of the "pastry" or the "fattiest"?
@@Hi-vf9wx both probably
@@Hi-vf9wx because in France pastries contain a lot of butter, thus they have so many layers inside which makes them the best in the world
Does Brittany count? I know it's part of the Republic of France but the cultural region of the area is Celtic rather than French proper AFAIK.
Chi the fuck ? No one is still considering his person , or even his culture as Celt or something similar since centuries , there is some a a little bit of cultural influences but this is really anecdotic
He protecc
He roll a snacc
But most importantly...
He give you heart attacc
*knock knock*
"Who's that?"
"It's us, diabetes and heart attack."
Ugh...stop it .. we can enjoy good foods at times and indulge our sweet tooth... ..nothing wrong with that
@@gale_pootI know, that bread is tempting AF. I'm just joking on the baker's quotation, "We could make it healthier, but that's not how we do it in Douarnenez".
_allow us to introduce ourselves_
our favourite singer - that’s what fat people say
@@gale_poot but many people eat this more than often ... Many of the times it becomes part of their regular food habits
I love the subtitles for this "Man speaks in foreign language" covering the subtitles for the English translation... Good job!
The concept of incorporating an entire stick of butter into a single pastry is one of the Frenchest things I’ve seen and the rest of the world has so much to learn. I would follow Napoleon all the way to Moscow just for one of those pastries.
In the Netherlands we actually have a pastry that is called "boterkoek" which literally means "buttercookie". Store bought it also contains 30% butter, but bakeries go even higher!
I LOVE boterkoek! In klein stukjes...
kouign amman goes as high as 50% butter, 30% is just average for a croissant for exemple
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@@reggie8370 wow nice job are you proud of yourself now
What?
who said you're supposed to eat this everyday? it's a special treat, you kill-joy; you're one of those people who probably never let yourself have even a cupcake, so you have to slam everything "forbidden" to you, to make yourself feel better
😂
D. Lawrence It was a meme why are you so angry
-Trying the Fattiest Pastry in Europe-
_Trying the THICCEST Pastry in Europe_
trying the thicc bih in the whole world
T H I C C
Ahh finally my kind
Cement
So a French girl with a big booty that twerks?
I tried it in St Malo. It is supposed to be eaten slightly warm. It's very rich and buttery and feels a bit like puff pastry but crunchier. I was underwhelmed at first as I was expecting so much but soon I could not stop eating it. It's very addictive.
This sounds a lot like the butter cake I've had in the Midwest US.
Please, us Americans would trench that in chocolate drizzle and sprinkles. We'd have it in strawberry and vanilla too. Hell we'd deep fry it in three layers of batter.
The.Meth.Baker. six9four20 I’m American and even that might be taking it a bit to far lol
Now you know that’s nothing to be proud of mate 😂😂
Somehow it won't taste as good though 😂
@@muhammadmota6141 doubt it
And by doing so, totally ruin the flavours!
30% butter and 30% sugar ? That's still better than my BMI.
Really than what is your BMI anyway😂😂
OMG 🤣
Addy LIew My BMI was 25.33 when I visited the doctor.
Oh no
@@nelzelpher2088 Rookie numbers. Mine was 29.9
I’ve had a version of this, and let me tell you. God tier. It’s like a croissant had sex with your first spiritual awakening
Noted!
perfectly put
Kouign-Amann is a must try if you come in Britanny, France.
It's normally served hot , around 40 degrees celcius so the salted butter and the sugar are melting together.
Most restaurant can also serve either Honey liquor (Chouchenn) or Pear liquor (Poiré) with the dessert.
It's often tempting, when hungry, to order for a Kouign-Amann in a restaurant but beware of its density.
You had me at salted* butter! I'm sure that makes all the difference.
@@gimmemoremusic Now I imagine a regular butter or margarine Kouign-Amann. Maybe it's good who knows.
This is literally the same ratio as my grandma's biscuit recipe......what have I been eating all this time?
Kouigr-andma.
@@FlushGorgon hah!
@@FlushGorgon *wheeze*
There's a consistency that differs from biscuits though, you should definitely give it a try! (And it's salted butter, because who in hell uses unsalted butter?)
2:39 the Logo of Great Big Story satisfyingly matches the same size as the pause and play symbole when it fades in.
Captions: **speaks in foreign language**
HMMM I WONDER WHICH LANGUAGE THAT MIGHT BE
Ummmm maybe German?
Americans when visiting France : I'll take four and double fry them in lard,glaze them in Nutella please!
"... and a coke zero, please! I don't wanna get fat!"
@@KitsuneHB lmao
These "America is fat" jokes are way too played out and old.
Lollll
😐
If you’re surprised by this you’d be surprised by how much butter is in a croissant. One stick for 6 croissants
You guys don’t understand how underrated this pastry is! Its a flakey pastry with crusty edges, soft and moist on the inside from the butter and sugar. Kouign-amann is so good, i wouldnt recommend eating the whole pie but in quebec they sell it in pieces so you can appreciate the taste without getting food comma when you eat the entire pie!
We have the same thing in the Netherlands. We call it a butter cookie, even though its more like a cake. They are absolutely incredibly delicious, and is eaten as a teat and a small piece. I recommend everybody looking up a recipe for 'boterkoek' and try it.
The first bite tastes like heaven, the second one takes you there.
Lol
Hi ! I'm actually from Brittany and spent most of my childhood there ! My grandmom used to live in Douarnenez so I know this location very well and often goes here when I come back to Brittany. I'm really proud of my Breton culture and I'm pretty happy to hearing about Douarnenez and Kouign Amann for a world wide audience. So that I would like write this comment raise awareness about the fact that Breton's culture is fairly different from French's one and how France has tried to erase our language and quirks for centuries. Therefore I'm slightly bitter when you talk about Kouign Amann being a "French" pastry or Douarnenez being in "Northern France" because in a way you validate the French's assimilation politic.
Trugarez Braz !!!
Me too ,kouign amann is breton ,not french !
Ta gueule, les bretons
@@NNNNN34955 Sorry but your sentence doesn't make sense :/
@@NanaNemtv Toi ta gueule
I get mini versions of Kouign-Amann at my local bakery in Minneapolis. There maybe the width of a big cake doughnut, not sure if they use that much butter but they’re good! Can’t wait to go to France someday to try the real thing!!
In the netherlands we actually have a recipe for an equally fatty, if not more (1/3 of the ingredients is butter) dessert. It’s called ‘boterkoek’ and you should try it, its so good :).
You had me at "30% butter"
Brain: Yes pls...
Arteries: Are we a joke to you?
The 'cholesterol in your food causes cholesterol to accumulate in your coronaries' hypothesis is long debunked.
‘not something to eat everyday’
..watch me
I am currently eating it because my neighbors went there on vacation and they brought some back to thank me for taking care of their cat, and I remembered this video so i came here to confirm that its delicious and very very buttery ! merci Thierry
You should rather say western France than northern... God save the Kouign!
North-western then ! Bretagne is not the whole west either
@@toto13372 But it's commonly seen as part of the west. Maybe because it's almost on the same longitude than Paris.
We could ask the Breton newspaper Ouest-France...
@@alexanderj1316 I'm not sure that Basque people would agree on that 😉
@@toto13372 Well... The most western point of France is in Bretagne. Douarnenez is further to the west than Pays Basque, for example. There is quite a distance from Bretagne to the most northern point of France, not that much shorter than to the most southern point (without counting Corsica of course).
Sure, Pays Basque is in the West too, but why wouldn't they agree that Bretagne is?
@@toto13372 You should look up "grand ouest français". Then again, it's pure terminology so who cares... 😉
Yes definitely not eating that everyday :)
Or makes me fat
Azliana Lyana
Every hour :)
This would be punishment for a teenage daughter that came home late or broke a rule. Make her eat this for breakfast every morning for a week. She can wash it down with a 20 oz. hot coco with full fat whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles. 😄😄😄
Candis wtf XD
"Northern France" Hmmm yes like how California is Northern USA.
I've had one of these before, apsolutely incredible
I tried this in Brittany and it’s truly one of the best things I remember ... the flavour 🥺
This stuff is soooo tasty:)
I had forgotten it's name, my then girlfriend and I used to call it Kofi Anan when we travelled in Bretagne
In the Netherlands we have 'boterkoek'which is like 50% butter at least🙈
@KalKyuLayTor Apparently that's what it means. Words of germanic origin can be very similar and all that. ;)
Here in england we have butter, and that's at least 100% butter.
With regular butter or Roomboter ?
In the UK, we have lardy cake. It's pastry, but with lard instead of butter. It sounds disgusting but it's completely delicious.
N. Faza with regular roomboter. Calling margarine or halvarine regular butter should be a crime ;)
The subtitles are very useful. It blocks what he's saying and instead displaying (speaking in a foreign language). Very useful.
I’ve been to douarnenez and the cities surrounding. Beautiful region, beautiful people, beautiful food
Don't mind me asking, how much would that pastry cost in Douarnenez?
@@fan.80s_90s havent tried it yet, next time i will though. Probably Not much though, i reckon under 5€
@@kotelettschweiss7811 €5 Euro? The amount of butter and sugar not to mention the baking the bakery has to do, I reckon it could be around €7 or €8 as inflation would go high and due to pandemic it would definitely increase.
@@fan.80s_90s i dont know, could be
*Cholesterol has joined the chat*
*heart has left the chat*
My mom spent a summer in Bretagne and she said "They don't believe in anything low-fat here. Everything is made with butter!" 😂
awwww
Them: fattiest pastry in Europe
My grandma : *cute*
Blessed to have a french bakery in the city that can make this pure pleasure! It's always sold out long be fore the bakery closes XD
I'm going to Montreal tomorrow and I've found a place that makes this. I can't wait! They actually named the place after this so you know it's their specialty.
So did you try it?
@@alainprostbis I did! It's very good but also very rich. It's hard to eat too much of it. It's not something you would want every day but if I lived there I'd get it once a month or every 3 months. A slice is VERY reasonably priced. It was like $2 so cheaper than a lot of Time Hortons baked goods. Definitely try it if you go.
I'm from Bretagne, the French region where the kouign amann is made and it's my favorite ever
Seeing a video like this makes laugh but also kinda proud because it's better than any american food
I want to talk about american food cause it seems like most don't know much about America only surface level stuff
america fries sticks of butter. of course its better than any american food
@@melonsoda4743 Nobody actually eats that, except at carnivals, and even then it's done as a joke.
Fun fact: They didn't show how many calories per pastry because the number wouldn't fit on the screen.
I’m going to miss these
You can make this homemade! I made it a few weeks ago. It was really delicious, kind of like salty caramel popcorn. The process is long but easy.
I hate to say it, but I saw it and instantly my mouth was watering.
That pastry looks delicious ! I'd like some !
www.recettes-bretonnes.fr/gateaux-bretons/recette-kouign-amann.html here is the recipe!!! In French...
It is !!! Worth to tryy
Tried this in Montreal and made them myself, they taste amazing!!!!
Thanks till now I wasnt aware I was living in "Northern France" 😂
That was so funny to watch this video. I was born and i grew up in Douarnenez, i know every streets and buildings that are shown, that put a smile on my face. fun fact: your pronunciation of Douarnenez is way far better than the majority of French people
Here in America, we like to mix cultures. The French like butter, we like deep fryers, therefore we made deep fried butter. It's very cultural!
I can feel my heart clogging just by watching this
When a piece of pastry is even fatter than me.
Europe: "you americans eat like you have free healthcare!"
"this bridge can hold 12 tonnes, or 3 americans"
Also europe:
well we have healthcare
Cope
I mean it's sti healthier than deep fried sticks of butter
@@supertoerakoplayz4351 bruh it's literally that, they just baked it
@@kreigthepsycho baked is better than fried😂😉
This is about similar to dutch Boterkoek. 300 grams flour, 250 sugar, 250 butter and 1 egg.
Just mix it all, keep a bit of the egg to spread it out on top before putting it in the oven. And voila. Just as fat, easy to make and also delicious.
Best to use none-salted real butter.
The Netherlands: "Hold my boterkoek"
buttercock lmao
Boterkoek has a 42% butter content so is more fatty, this video's title is incorrect. Europe's fattiest pastry is from the Netherlands.
G E K O L O N I S E E RD
@@LMvdB02 no
@@Blashmack ja
“The fattiest pastry in Europe”
Greek sweets: *hold my ouzo*
Why is it so true 😖✌🏻
"this french pastry is the fattiest pastry in Europe."
Scotland: just wait till you try a buttrie mate!
Edit: I just watched this man put a whole stick of butter in ONE of these. Nvm...
@Mel Hawk well its similar to this but smaller and it originates from the north-east of Scotland. My great Granny would always have them when we went to visit her in Keith. I don't really know how to spell it though, lol. I'm sure if you search it up on google or CZcams you can find a good recipe, however some recipes might be hard to understand if you're not familiar with Dorich.
It's called a buttery if you are from Aberdeenshire or a rowieif you're from Aberdeen. They have a higher fat percentage than this by quite a decent margin. I have tried making them myself but I'm hopeless. The ones you can buy in the shops there are soo good. Easily in my top 5 all time foods
@@Arrica101 YES! my great granny used to live in Moray and the butteries there are delicious! ik they're not the healthiest but i used to have at least one for breakfast every day when i'd stay over lol
I agree, top 5 foods of all time, i'm so sad that i can't get them in Fife, which is where I live. We used to get them from the fish van that came around every once in a while.
I haven't tried this particular pastry, but I must admit France does the best cakes in the world!!! I don't know why, maybe because the ingredients they use, their pastries are just otherworldly !!!
to america 30% butter and 30% sugar is rookie numbers
I can now hear my heart screaming
Pair it with a cup of coffee please. 😋
You didn’t show us the inside of the pastry😭!! I was dying for a close-up!! My heart is sad that I can’t eat this
This shows the inside, and is easy to make! czcams.com/video/RK7AAI6Zicw/video.html
Pretty similar to boterkoek then (which is 150g butter, 200g sugar, 200g flour mixed with an egg and half a table spoon of baking powder).
1:28 I underestimated how much butter and sugar went into this 😵
Legend says, if you eat 3 of these, an ambulance will suddenly appear
watching this after receiving the news that great big story will stop making videos :"(
This makes me uncomfortable 🤐😥🤨 for no good reason because it has a lot of butter but if people says this is delicious.. I hope one day, I could taste this Kouign Amann..
I'm from that area and believe me, if you ever get the chance try it!
why don't you just make it at home and try it?
@@dowkinners4106 well, i have zero pastry skills and... I am wanting to taste the authentic one
Oh wow looks lovely. I love anything greasy and buttery.
The Buttery (aka Aberdeen Roll or Rowie) is made of an unfeasibly large amount of butter, lard and salt
GET ALEX FRENCH COOKING GUY ON THE PHONE, QUICK
30% butter, 30% sugar. Bless French cuisine!!! 😂🤣
This looks amazing! However, in the Netherlands we make "boterkoek" (butter-cake), which is 35% butter, and also absolutely delicious. I'd describe the taste and texture as somewhere between shortbread and a straight-up stick of butter. So, there is at least one pastry in Europe more fatty than this...
the dutch have a similair pastry called 'boterkoek', it's pretty similair, but not multilayered or puffy at all.
His hat- I love it.
deliver me 27 of those
And u can kill an Elephant
Who came here because he thought this was just Balkan burek? 😅
Looks just like it lol
"It's 30% butter and 30% sugar"
*sign me up*
It takes me back when I was in France.