Salty Tart Bakery's pastry cream-filled brioche: 100 Favorite Dishes, No. 80

By Anne Rucker Mon., Feb. 21 2011 at 8:30 AM

Categories: 100 Favorite Dishes of 2011

Anne Rucker

Scone who? Once you go brioche you'll never go back.

Salty Tart Bakery just may have created the perfect breakfast pastry. Bagels, scones, and muffins are all fine and good, but once you indulge in this sweet and tender brioche bun you'll never go back to your boring old coffee-shop standby again.

Anne Rucker

This rich, buttery brioche roll would be perfectly delicious on its own, but the addition of a velvety vanilla bean pastry cream filling takes it to a whole other level. The pastry cream is rich, custardy, packed with real vanilla bean, and kissed with a hint of lemon zest. Not only is this treat dreamily filled, it is also dredged in sugar, giving it a sinful sweetness and irresistible, subtle crunch. It's the kind of pastry you'll finish and wish you'd ordered two. Maybe three. With its simple flavors done exceptionally well, this breakfast roll does not disappoint and pairs perfectly with your favorite cup of coffee. You'll never want to grab for that tired old scone again.

SALTY TART BAKERY
at Midtown Global Market

920 E Lake Street, Minneapolis

612.874.9206

website

Hungry for more? The dishes in our countdown thus far are linked below:

No. 81: Little Szechuan's bamboo tips with chili sauce
No. 82: Oceanaire's Jumbo Lump Crab Cake
No. 83: Aperitif's Nonni's Meatballs
No. 84: Christos's Saganaki
No. 85: Seven Stars' Sesame Bagel
No. 86: Hell's Kitchen Lemon Ricotta Hotcakes
No. 87: Blackbird banh mi
No. 88: Tank Goodness chocolate chip cookies
No. 89: Sole Cafe's gal bee
No. 90: Porter & Frye's El Pelon
No. 91: Coffee News' fish and chips
No. 92: Bread & Chocolate's Fabulous Fudge Bar
No. 93: People's Organic Panna Cotta
No. 94: Sea Salt Eatery Crawdad Po' Boy
No. 95: Fuji Ya's Tofu Don
No. 96: Ike's Food and Cocktails The Weekender Bloody Mary
No. 97: Punch's Toto pizza
No. 98: Stockholm Pie Company's peanut butter fudge cream pie
No. 99: Dogwood Coffee Co.'s macchiato
No. 100: Al's Breakfast buttermilk pancakes