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Two simple ingredients drive a fledgling Brooklyn-based baker
When it comes to a satisfying treat, simple is almost always best. Alison Walla’s small Brooklyn-based baking outfit Butter + Love exemplifies that ideal with her line of shortbread and gingerbread fruit- and herb-infused cookies made from spruced-up family recipes.
Taking its name from a Norwegian proverb, Butter + Love was born from Walla’s morning coffee runs to the Green Grape in Fort Greene. The discerning staff urged her to capitalize on her neighborly generosity and start selling the sweets she was bringing to them each day.
In six months, Walla has baked her way into six local stockists, and opened her own stall at the Brooklyn Flea in November 2011. This week, she opens an Etsy shop to share the cookie bounty with those outside the neighborhood.
We got to try a variety of flavors at CH HQ and were most impressed by the salted honey lavender shortbread—a classic, well-executed iteration based on the namesake ingredient. The rich cookie was a perfect balance of soft and crispy with a sprinkling of salt and sugar on top. The sandwich cookies—a heart-shaped raspberry lemon and blackberry lime stars—offered a flavorful update on the traditional Linzer tart, and pleased the crowd a bit more than the more unconventional savory-sweet marionberry rosemary sea salt flavor. The gingerbread moustaches offered just enough spice, and were pleasantly chewier than a typical snap.
Find Butter + Love at select Brooklyn purveyors or, starting this week, online at Etsy. Prices start around $5 for a box of four.
Unexpected herbs spice up a range of shortbread from the Napa Valley
After numerous compliments and requests for her lavender shortbread, Sondra Wells decided to take her craft to the next level with Botanical Bakery. Soon, she’ll even add Thai chili and gluten-free varieties to the roster of flavors of unusual, buttery Garden Shortbread cookies filled with aromatic herbs, spices, fruits and cacao nibs.
Each cookie starts with three organic ingredients: hard red wheat flour (unbleached), fresh-churned, 85-percent-sweet-cream butter and pure cane sugar. From there, the Napa Valley, California-based baker adds exotic flavors we’ve certainly never seen in a simple shortbread.
We tried the fennel pollen, which stands out for its delicate flavor. Filled with the tiny, hand-picked blossoms of the wild pollen, the golden shortbread tastes like honey and licorice. On every Botanical Bakery package, you’ll find suggested pairings with tea, coffee and wine—for fennel pollen, we went with a warm cup of Intelligentsia Le Perla de Oaxaca. The combination of the coffee’s milk chocolate and blackberry notes and the mild sweetness of the fennel pollen was spot-on.
Currently, Botanical Bakery makes Garden Shortbread in seven unexpected, sweet-meets-savory varieties. (Cinnamon Basil also disappeared quickly from the CH office.) Pick up a box online for $7.
Cherry spoons and bone-shaped treats—pas pour les chiens!
On a recent visit to beloved Parisian boulangerie and patisserie Poilâne, we scooped up the two newest flavors in their line of savory and sweet biscuits—cherry cookies in the shape of spoons (nicely complimenting their curry forks and shortbread spoons) and dog bones aptly called Pas Pour Les Chiens (not for dogs).
The bone-shaped cookies by celebrity cartoon dogs Caperino and Peperone (little caper and big pepperoni—”guess why”), most famous for their work with Paris boutique Colette, certainly look like something made for K9s, but non. According to a charming comic strip enclosed in each box of eight, the cookies simply got their shape during the dogs’ hijinks with their hats in the Poilâne kitchen.
Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas, the artists behind Caperino and Peperone, also helped to design the packaging on the Pas Pour Les Chiens biscuits—just the latest extension of their cartoon characters, whose repertoire of collaborations includes Swarovski, Nike, Fendi, Kidrobot and several others.
As for their flavor, Chef Lior Lev Sercarz of La Boîte created a spicy blend of nutmeg and ground peppercorns called “Fourmis Rouge” (Red Ant), bridging savory and sweet tastes. The cherry spoons are all sweet, with just a hint of the fruit, for a snack at any time throughout the day.
The biscuits are baked in Paris and shipped to NYC, selling for $15 for a box of eight at La Bôite. Or, pick them up from the Poilâne online shop or their stores in Paris and London.
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