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Pastries

Laminated over two days. Butter, patience, and not much else.

Butter Croissant

Pastries

Twenty seven layers of French butter, laminated over two days. Shatters when you look at it.

Pain au Chocolat

Pastries

The same dough as the croissant, wrapped around two batons of dark chocolate.

Almond Croissant

Pastries

Yesterday’s croissant, split and filled with frangipane, baked again and dusted with sugar. Better the second time.

Cinnamon Roll

Pastries

Soft enriched dough, a great deal of cinnamon butter, cream cheese glaze poured while warm.

Cherry Danish

Pastries

Laminated pastry with vanilla custard and sour cherries that cut through all that butter.

Cinnamon Twist

Pastries

Croissant offcuts rolled in cinnamon sugar and twisted. Nothing wasted, nothing worse for it.

Buttermilk Scone

Pastries

Cold butter, buttermilk, a light hand. Split it, do not slice it.

Blueberry Muffin

Pastries

More blueberry than muffin, with a coarse sugar top that cracks.

Glazed Donut

Pastries

Raised overnight, fried to order, glazed while still too hot to hold.