A croissant (anglicised variously as, /kwɑːˈsɑːn/, etc.)'s a buttery flaky bread, named for its distinctive crescent shape. It's also sometimes called a crescent or crescent roll. Croissants are made of a leavened variant of puff pastry by layering yeast dough with butter and rolling and folding a few times in succession, then rolling. Crescent-shaped breads have been made since the Middle Ages, and crescent-shaped cakes (imitating the often-worshiped Moon) possibly si… (More on Croissant)