$5
The baker in this café definitely knows their stuff and you can tell that they’ve been trained well to make their French pastries properly. Everything from the thin, flakey, crispy crust, to the soft, buttery, delicately thin layers of pastry inside was perfect.
I got this at the Oh My Days market stall in Hornsby and got to talk to the owners. I was surprised to be told that they use Shea butter fairly traded from women’s cooperatives in Africa as their vegan butter substitute in their pastries, which turns their croissants from empty carb and fat calories to something with a somewhat decent nutrient profile. Not that I need any incentive to eat them anyway lol.
Just one tiny, subjective way this croissant could possibly improve is the salt factor. To achieve the saltiness of the salted butter used in traditional French croissants (from my memory of eating the real thing in France in my pre-vegan days), just a little more salt is needed I think. Otherwise you can just slather on some salted vegan butter onto eat bite and that’ll fix it 👍
Croissant
