A bear claw from Broadway Doughnuts is ready to eat on Tuesday. According to Wikipedia, “The name bear claw as used for a pastry is first attested in March 1914 by the Geibel German Bakery ...

In the U.S., one of the earliest mentions of the “bear claw pastry” was in a 1934 issue of The Sacramento Star, which printed an advertisement for a J.L. Geibel’s German bakery and its specials.

Various online reports attribute the pastry’s origin to The German Bakery, once owned by John Ludwig Geibel at 915 K St. Sacramento invented the bear claw pastry? The internet says so.