Roselle Desserts

Mmmm dessert, my fave…..  Desserts that are different, unique, even better.  Roselle is a new bakery that opened not too long ago in the East end.  What makes them so unique to me, is that the desserts they make are just slightly different than the standard cakes.  Their éclairs is not just the éclair with French cream and glazed with chocolate, it’s a banana cream éclair.  In my opinion, a welcome change to the standard éclair.  Along with the éclair, I got to try an earl grey shortbread cookie, which was good and buttery flavoured, but not enough earl grey flavour.  Yes I can see the tea leaves, but if it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have known.  Their mango mousse cake had very good mango and coconut flavour.  Very rich an smooth, but also light.  It didn’t sit super heavy in the stomach after.  My favourite was the crepe cake.  The crepe cake is exactly the way that it sounds.  It’s many many layers of crepe, with a layer of cream in between.  I unfortunately ate the cake too late, after dinner (I bought it late afternoon), the brulee top softened.  There was no way I could get it crispy again.  Next time I buy it again, I will make sure to eat it right away.  Just a note, they only make the crepe cakes on the weekends.

Earl Grey Shortbread Cookie & Banana Cream Eclair

Crepe Cake and Mango Mousse Cake

Roselle Desserts

362 King St. E.,

Toronto, ON

M5A 1K9

Phone: (416) 368-8188

Hours:  Monday Closed

             Tuesday - Friday 11:00am - 7:00pm

             Saturday - Sunday 12:00pm - 7:00pm

http://www.roselleto.com

Momofuku Milk Bar

There's one thing I tried from Momofuku Milk Bar in NYC, and thats the ever so famous Crack Pie.  And is it ever delicious!  Tastes kinda like a butter tart but different.  NYC is one of my favourite travel spots.  I've been there several times and would love to go back again.  I just need time off from school, time off from work, money, and a dog sitter.  But in the meanwhile I'll get to reminisce every time I get a snack from Momofuku's Milk Bar in Toronto.

Momofuku's Milk Bar is located on the second floor above the Noodle Bar.  While the Noodle Bar is NOT worth visiting, the Milk Bar is a different story.  The Milk Bar is essentially a refrigerated glass room filled with cookies, pies, truffles.  It's an awesome experience to be totally surrounded by desserts!  While the initial intention was to buy a slice of Crack Pie, I ended up with some Bday Truffles, Compost Cookie, Blueberry & Cream Cookie, Cornflake Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookie.  The Bday Truffles were not your typical chocolate truffle.  It tasted like a truffle made of raw cookie dough.  The cookies were awesome, my favourite being the Compost cookie.  I just hope that I never find out how much butter was used in a single cookie.....

Momofuku Milk Bar Goodies

Momofuku Milk Bar
190 University Ave. 2nd flr,
Toronto, ON
1-855-333-MILK

Hours:  Monday - Sunday 11:30am - 11pm
http://milkbarstore.com/main/toronto/

French Corner Bakery & Patisserie

My food partner in crime at work is on maternity leave, meaning I haven’t been out looking for new places to try.  I can’t remember why I Googled for a bakery near work, but I did, and I’m glad I did.  This cute little bakery I supposed to have really good pain au chocolat (chocolate croissants).  However, by the time I went (lunch time), they were sold out already.  I bought a dozen macarons because they looked good, and a piece of tomato focaccia for lunch. 

The focaccia was delicious.  Lots of fresh tomato flavor.  And it was huge!  I was so stuffed after.  I would love to try more of their breads from this bakery one day.

The macarons, while they looked good, was just ok.  The macaron shell was a little tough, while the insides remained chewy.  The fillings were good and tasted of what it was supposed to taste of, with none of that artificial flavorings.  The price was less than $2 each from what I remember.  So its cheap and good enough for a macaron craving fix.

Tomato Foccacia

Macarons

French Corner Bakery & Patisserie

1224 Dundas Street W.,

Mississauga, ON,

L5C 4G7

Hours: Monday - Saturday 8:00am - 7:00pm

            Sunday 8:00am - 5:00pm

https://www.facebook.com/FrenchCornerCafeBakeryAndPatisserie

The Maid's Cottage Restaurant

We drove all the way to Newmarket for buttertarts.  Yes you heard right, for buttertarts.  Ever since 1.5 years ago, when I had to drive to Gravenhurst for a wedding, and tasted the most amazing buttertarts EVER, I have been on the hunt for something just  as delicious but closer to home.  I was super excited when I heard a friend's coworker mention there's a buttertart place in Newmarket.  It's still a drive, but definitely much closer than Gravenhurst.  So off we drove! 

We arrived at The Maid's Cottage around lunch time.  Maybe we should have planned this out better and came around tea time then we wouldnt feel like we're obligated to order lunch food too since we're here really for the butter tarts. Since it was lunchtime, we got some tea and lunch foods.  Tea is served in cute, real china teacups. If the decor wasn't so "homey", it would have felt a little like going for high tea.  For lunch we ordered meatloaf sandwich, corned beef on rye with coleslaw, perogies and chicken pot pie.  All the bread for the sandwiches were home made.  Super soft and super fresh.  I personally don't like meatloaf so I can't comment on how well or not well made it was, but it did taste homemade.  The hubby did mention that he felt there was too much ketchup in it.  My friend loved her corned beef sandwich.  She just kept eating.  The perogies didn't look very homemade.  In fact, they look like the ones I bought from Costco.  My chicken pot pie was delicious!  Super flaky crust and lots of white chicken meat in the pie.  The only thing that I didn't like was the fact that the pie only had chicken, no veggies.  I would have liked some peas and carrots in it.

Corned Beef on Rye

Meatloaf Sandwich

Chicken Pot Pie

Perogies

Finally dessert time!  The Maid's Cottage offers plain, pecan, raisin, and currant buttertarts.  Pricing is as follows: 1 buttertart $2.35, half dozen $10.95 and full dozen $18.95.  We ordered a currant buttertart and a lemon meringue tart.  The lemon meringue tart looked amazing, but taste fell short.  For some reason the lemon filling had a metallicky after taste.  The buttertart, the main attraction, was good but still didn't compare to the ones in Gravenhurst.  The shell was nice and buttery and flakey.  The filling was nice and oozy, but a little too sweet for my tastes.  These buttertarts are good for a buttertart fix.  But still doesn't compare to the Gravenhurst buttertarts.

Lemon Meringue Tart

Current Buttertart

The Maid's Cottage
205 Main Street S. Newmarket, ON, L3Y 3Y9
905-954-0202
Hours: Monday - Friday 9am-6pm Saturday 9am-5pm