One of the days I took my sister and her friend to the Ferry Building for an afternoon snack. We stopped by miette to get their Old Fashion Cupcake - a bittersweet chocolate cake with an Italian meringue topping (which was similar to a marshmallow consistency), Rose Gernanium Macaron, and Vanilla Macaron. They had other desserts there in addition to cupcakes and macarons, which include cookies, cakes, tarts, ice cream sandwiches, and other confections. After, we headed over to one of my favorite coffee places, Blue Bottle Coffee, to get lattes and cappucinos to go with our treats.
The cake portion of the Old Fashion Cupcake was nice in the fact that it was not too sweet but it was a little on the dry side for my liking. I really liked the Italian meringue topping though and the candied peanut on top (It was like a Boston Baked Beans candy)! The macarons were nice also but again not the best I ever had. Bouchon still makes the best macarons in my book!
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| The packaging & decorations were really cute! |
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| Hazelnut Macarons |
Also, while at miette, I picked up some cupcakes (Yellow Lemon, Old Fashion, Carrot Cake, Gingerbread (which was recently acclaimed the "Best Cupcake in American" by Food Network), and Carrot Cake for the friends I had visiting. One of my friends is as big of a cupcake/dessert lover as I am. I had gotten a Hazelnut Macaron for their baby girl who finished the whole thing herself when I gave it to her after having dinner with them. She's a dessert lover just like her mommy and I! I'll have to ask them how the other cupcakes are.
Here are the highlights of other places I visited this past weekend:
Cha Cha Cha - shrimp appetizer!
Flour + Water - margarita pizza!
Tartine - this time we had the brioche pudding with nectarines! (b/c they didn't have anymore chocolate croissants or chocolate banana cream tarts)
Mama's - eggs florentine and grapefruit juice!
Bi-Rite - salted caramel and earl grey!
Humphry Slocombe - salted chocolate!
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