We don’t always have to get caught up in life, rush to the next big thing or for that matter spend hours in a kitchen. Sometimes it is important to take a break, slow it all down and enjoy the simple pleasures of life.
Today, I was in the mood for a cruffin – the love child of croissants and muffins, but I didn’t want to go through the convulated process of making a laminated dough. So, I grabbed some ready puff pastry (always handy to keep it in the pantry) and just rolled with it.
Although you can find a lot of variations all over the world, the cruffins were first created in Melbourne back in 2013 and became a signature pastry of Mr. Holmes Bakehouse in San Francisco. Bizarrely in March 2015, someone stole the pastry chef Ry Stephen’s binders from the bakery kitchen, which contained the cruffin recipe and 230 other recipes, leaving valuables like money, iPad, computers and baking equipment intact. Should we find out what makes this light, flaky pastry so special?