Sweet Beat: Batter Bakery's FiDi Kiosk Sports a Rotating Collection of Buttery Treats
Clientele at certain coffee houses and markets (including the Dolores Park Café and Rainbow) have been enjoying buttery Batter Bakery treats for some time. But until recently, Batter had no store of its own for sweets like cappuccino chocolate chunk cookies, butterscotch blondies, and chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting.
M. Brody Too small to contain all of Batter Bakery's goodness.
Happily for the city's sweet teeth, last month owner Jen Musty opened a retail outlet in the FiDi, at the corner of California and Kearny, in a circular kiosk not much bigger than a phone booth (remember phone booths?). It's not large enough to contain all of Batter's line, so a rotating roster of nicely prepackaged cookies ($2.25), small bites ($1.25), bars and brownies ($2.50), shortbread ($2.25), and cupcakes ($2.75) show up as Sweets of the Week.
The pumpkin chocolate chip muffin we scored was immense, especially next to the smallish cream cheese-frosted red velvet cupcake, which looked dollhouse-size next to it. Our faves were the rich and moist-textured chocolate mint cookie and fragrant lemon almond scone. The kiosk is open early enough for breakfast (try the buttermilk pecan coffeecake) and late enough to grab something to accompany an afternoon caffeine break. We'll be stopping by in the hopes of finding Batter's signature secret recipe cookie, the Sand Angel, rumored to be a cross between a snickerdoodle and a molasses cookie, and yet somehow neither! Check the photo goodness after the jump.
M. Brody Offerings change frequently.
Batter Bakery 555 California (at Kearny), 706-8076. Mon-Fri, 7 a.m.-4 p.m.
M. Brody A red velvet mini cupcake (left) next to the mammoth pumpkin chocolate chip muffin.
M. Brody Shortbread (left) and chocolate mint cookie.
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