Want to see more vegan pastry recipes here? Help out the vegan baking community by submitting your own! Pastry consists of a rich dough that usually contains flour, water, fat and sometimes sugar. This dough can either make up the base or covering of a baked item such as in croissants, danishes, pies and tarts. A higher ratio of fat to water makes pastry dough less airy and more dense in relation to other doughs such as bread dough. Vegan pastry recipes commonly utilize solid fats that contribute to flakiness instead of butter and egg replacers such as starches instead of eggs.