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Monday, June 21, 2010
Elizabeth’s Pick: Butter Cake at Rustica Bakery
By Elizabeth Dehn
If you know me, then you know of my obsessions: Champagne, beauty products, the Real Housewives of NYC, and this:
It’s called Kouign Amann—or “butter cake”—and I could eat my weight in it. This hockey puck-sized disc of golden goodness is on the menu daily at Rustica Bakery, where I regularly tell unsuspecting strangers to order it. Stat. Originally from the Brittany region of France, it has a soft, brioche-like center and a crisp, caramelized exterior. That’s because its dipped in butter and sugar. Dipped! The combination of sweet and rich is addictive. And I’m okay with that.
Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 in Permalink
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Reader Comments:
Agreed. Amazing stuff...
Oh, what have you unleashed? Pandora's cake? I have to drive by there today...
Oh, as if I needed ANOTHER excuse to make a trip to Rustica. Curse you, Elizabeth!
Kopplin's sells these too, for you St. Paulies.
Goodness indeed!
They have small bags of gooey chocolate cookie things that I actually have eaten my weight in. So amazing.
I had one today and it made me proud to live in Minneapolis.
I would like to offer a correction.
The Kouign Amann is a pastry similar to croissant and danish.
It is a dough that is lamenated (layers of dough with butter) with sugar and butter.
it is not dipped. While bakeing the sugar caramelizes the pastry
and results in the crisp golden crust.
Tammy Hoyt
Head Baker at Rustica