- Whole-wheat fried dough, hand-stretched
- Cinnamon sugar (the classic) or toppings like maple, chocolate hazelnut, or apple pie filling
BeaverTails
A maple BeaverTail pastry from the ByWard Market, Ottawa. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
BeaverTails are fried dough pastries stretched by hand into the shape of a beaver's tail, then topped with cinnamon sugar or anything from chocolate hazelnut to maple. Crisp outside, chewy inside, eaten hot.
Grant and Pam Hooker created them in 1978; the ByWard Market stand in Ottawa made them famous. They are now the official pastry of the Rideau Canal skateway.
Key ingredients
Where to try it
- The ByWard Market BeaverTails stand in Ottawa.
- Stands along the Rideau Canal in winter.
- Locations across Canada.