Another interesting pastry experiment by Johan Paris @ Westgate again... officially "banana chocolate croquant". "Croquant" is French for "crisp" or "crunchy". True to form, it was a combination of crunchy banana chips, dark chocolate chunks, walnuts, and flaky, crispy and crunchy multi-layered blocks of pie pastry, held together by a sugar glaze and arranged as a crescent.
I especially liked the multi-layered cubes of pastry, as they had this crisp to the individual layers, but combined together in a block, the texture evolved to something rather crunchy. (They're the topmost piece in the image below, followed by a dark chocolate chunk and a banana chip. I couldn't quite find the walnuts... -_-)
I think the concept of banana and chocolate is standard, but banana as chips is completely different from fresh bananas... the chips were dried and hence crunchy, and the banana flavour was rather muted. I felt that the typical banana-chocolate combination was lost in that respect.
However, overall, I would say that it resembled a nice banana-choc crunchy granola or trail mix, only pie pastry version. It was creative of them to think outside the box of typical pastries by putting this motley of ingredients together and binding them with a kind of glaze, then selling them alongside buns and pies. And in that sense, it was pleasantly unique!
However, overall, I would say that it resembled a nice banana-choc crunchy granola or trail mix, only pie pastry version. It was creative of them to think outside the box of typical pastries by putting this motley of ingredients together and binding them with a kind of glaze, then selling them alongside buns and pies. And in that sense, it was pleasantly unique!
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