Number 21: Starter Bakery's Hazelnut Kouign Amann
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| Iann Ivy |
| Starter Bakery's hazelnut kouign amman. |
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The genius of the kouign amman is how much butter Wood secrets in the dough, sprinkling sugar as he folds so that the pastry puffs and separates into dozens of layers as it bakes. But it's no airy, fragile croissant. In the oven, butter and sugar meld and melt together to form grainy, transparent spikes and twists of caramel that cling to the rim, crackling when you bite into them. There's just enough salt in the mix to push the pastry to that liminal state where savory and sweet coexist.
And the genius of Starter's hazelnut-filled kouign amman, the best of his flavored kouignou, is that there's no contrast between the interior and the exterior of the pastry; the flavor of the toasted nuts echo the butter and caramelized sugar as if they were made of the same substance.
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Bi-Rite Market
3639 18th St., San Francisco, CA
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