la suprema

Today, my dad and I stopped into La Suprema, our local giant mexican bakery. They have pretty much everything you can imagine. Cakes, chocolates, crazy flans... the list goes on and on. The first time I went there, I piled my basket with almond croissants, palmiers, and-- wait! Those are classic french pastries! I walked toward the checkout counter and saw before me...... macarons! It turns out that this place has a ton of french baked goods with their names in spanish. Neato! I resisted the macarons that first time, but today, we walked straight towards the plate of macs, who sat like jewels on the platter. We got chocolate, pistachio, caramel, and strawberry. We brought them home to eat so I could take pictures of them for you. As you can see, they were smooth with eggshell-like outsides. They had beautiful feet.

My parents watched me as I took a bite of the pistachio one. CRUNCH. Wow, I was not expecting that. It was like, way crunchy. Perhaps stale? The filling was nowhere to be found. We passed its remains around the table and each let out a sigh of disappointment. Maybe the strawberry would be better. CRUNCH. Yeah, um, no. Less flavor. Come to think of it, that may have been raspberry. I couldn't tell. The caramel one's only virtue was the filling. It was dulce de leche. The nuttiness of condensed milk is distinctive and delicious. The chocolate one definitely had the most flavor. The cross-section here shows the texture. Dense. Personally, I prefer them a little.. hollower? The filling seemed like straight-up melted chocolate which had formed into a solid bar of chocolate in the middle of my solid cookie.

All of that ranting aside, La Suprema is a great bakery. I highly recommend everything there except the macarons. The tres leches is to die for. They have something called flan impossible: a layer of flan, a layer of chocolate cake. But what can I say? It is a mexican bakery.

xoxo,

allie