The sweet pastry is the part of the culinary art dedicated to the preparation of sweet foods, pastries, sweet cakes, cookies, pralines, chocolates, candied fruit and the like.

Divided into two macro sectors (sweet pastry, which includes ice cream and confectionery, and savoury pastry, which adds the whole sector of baking and the production of savoury pies and canapés), it is an art that belongs specifically to the European culinary tradition and the traditions derived from it, such as that of the United States and Creole.