Last week I visited Montreal for the first time to celebrate my birthday (more on this later) where I ended up eating my weight in delicious foods. But, probably the best thing I tasted was the latest craze in Montreal–the cronut. This awesome pastry is a concoction of a croissant and donut, and is kind of crispy and flaky on the outside and deliciously doughy and soft on the inside. The bakery where I got mine had two different varieties, so I obviously had to try both–custard and nutella. Each were lightly dusted on the outside with large piece of granulated sugar, and were filled with just the right amount of their respective flavors.
As much as I love nutella, I have to say that the custard was a better cronut. Nutella might just be a little too dense/sticky for the inside of a pastry, whereas the custard is like the perfect consistency.
I was informed recently that Twitter was aflutter with the cronut craze a few months back, but apparently I missed out on all of that and only heard about them when I got to Montreal. So, I’m a little late to the party, but these little things are seriously fantastic and I’m so grateful I don’t live anywhere close to where they are sold because I’d likely end up eating them for every meal. Every day.
I’ve heard about cronuts but haven’t had the opportunity to try one. They sounds deadly!
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Oh man! Go get yourself some cronuts, girl! They’re amaaaazing.