James Beard Award-winning French pastry chef Dominique Ansel—who invented the Cronut—has created his first-ever vegan version of the popular croissant-doughnut hybrid.
The all-vegan version of Ansel’s iconic “half croissant, half doughnut” creation is filled with coconut rice pudding infused with naturally flavored Butterfly Pea Flower Tea and topped with a hand-glazed fondant. The limited-edition vegan Cronut is available at Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City from September 21 through September 24 until sold out daily.
Uniquely, Ansel partnered with paint brand Sherwin-Williams to create the vegan Cronut inspired by the brand’s 2024 Color of the Year—a relaxed blue hue called Upward SW 6239.
“This collaboration represented a challenge, to change the way we think and experiment with different ingredients we haven’t quite used before,” Ansel tells…