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Recipes for Island
Inspired Baking
[from Hawaiian
Buns to Rum
Cakes!]
Vanilla in
the Spotlight
New Recipes
for This Pantry
Staple
Blondie
Blowout!
3 Base
Batters,
6 Ways
to Twirl
Them Up
MAY/JUN 2019 VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3
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87 A ROUND OF RUM CAKE 112 Back Page Brownie: Paradise Blondie Brownies
Take brownies to a whole new level with our
blondie-topped brownies packed with toasted
Spiked with the islands’ most famous boozy export, coconut, macadamia nuts, and chocolate chunks
classic rum cake gets a new look as a Dark ’n Stormy
Bundt Cake, sweet and spicy mini cakes, and more
THE TROPICS AWAIT… This issue embraces the Bermuda—bakeries, gas stations, home kitchens—everywhere. Then
there’s the sweet-meets-savory combo of a fried cod sandwich on raisin
restorative power of tropical tastes, from a creamy, dreamy pie
bread. One taste of this bread (recipe on page 65) and you’ll wonder
roundup to a collection of recipes highlighting one of the greatest
where this swirling, subtly sweet masterpiece has been your whole life.
ingredients to come from these warmer climes: vanilla. Our cover
I was often aided on my journey by Kristin White, a native Bermudian
star, the Guava Jam Cake (page 17), is inspired by Bahamian resident
who ushers visitors to the best culinary spots in St. George’s, and by my
Angelika Bacchus’s love for the local guava duff, a jammy steamed
local guide and fast friend Larry Rogers, who shared his local favorites
pudding that always gets drowned in a rich butter rum sauce. Then
with that classic Bermudian sense of hospitality. All of this exploration
there are the blondies, an epic bake-your-own-adventure feature (page
eventually led me to the next great love of my life, Bermuda Banana
67) that offers three perfect base recipes and six creative variations.
Snickerdoodles (page 54). Everything on this trip confirmed what I
Plus, we’re diving into the history of the Hawaiian bun (page 107), that
already felt in my heart: Paradise is worthy of active exploration, from
addictive bread roll that’s always a welcome sight at the dinner table.
Hawaii to Bermuda and everywhere in between.
And, yes, there’s plenty of rum cake—five recipes, to be exact.
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here’s a fragile millisecond of resistance when you bite into The Bakery
at Fat Rice’s pastel de nata (egg custard tart) and your teeth meet the
brûléed top. It dissipates instantly as you descend through creamy,
lightly sweet egg custard before tearing into the flaky, croissant-like shell.
Sort of Macanese by way of Portugal, it’s a pastry greater than the sum of its
parts—at once dead simple and elusive with baking alchemy. You’ll wonder
how the team consistently achieves this result in a single bake.
“It was a seven- or eight-year process,” says Abe Conlon, chef and co-owner
with Adrienne Lo of the Chicago pastry shop attached to Fat Rice, their
relentlessly thronged Macanese restaurant. They first made egg custard tarts
while hosting X-marx, their underground supper club that predated Fat
Rice’s opening in 2012. A few attempts morphed into a full-blown quest once
Pa ra dise
THIS SUMMER, WE’RE SERVING UP A TASTE OF THE TROPICS
WITH VIBRANT PIES THAT CELEBRATE THE FRESH FRUITS AND BRIGHT
FLAVORS OF THE ISLANDS, FROM OUR ICEBOX KEY LIME PIE TO A
CUSTARDY ROASTED PINEAPPLE AND MANGO MARVEL
PHOTOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM DICKEY
STYLING BY MARY BETH JONES
BY SOPHIA JONES
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEPHANIE WELBOURNE STEELE AND ROHAN SHASTRI
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1. , Victoire Café + Cycle Club / Sweet + Kind Bakery,
4 Sweet P at Lili Bermuda Perfumery, Sweet SAAK Bakery
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2. Windybank Farm/Bouquet Garni Gourmet Foods
3. Salty Lime Café
4. Café Acoreano, Crow Lane Bakery, Glaze Bakery-Café,
7 The Pie Factory
5. D’Angelini’s Café, The Supermart
6. Tuck Shop Desserts & General Store
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7. The Bridge Trading Post
8. De Island Shack
9. Bermuda Rum Cake Company
Victoire Café + Cycle Club is the island’s trendiest new coffee shop. Serving
up top-notch brews and a smorgasbord of Scandinavian treats (owner Tyler
Simmons’ mom is Swedish), the light-flooded, minimalist space has quickly
become a hub for those biking Bermuda. Sweet + Kind Bakery founder Nea
Pantry bakes the Kladdkaka cupcakes (Swedish chocolate cake), Drommar
(Swedish Dream Cookies), and cardamom cookies (our favorite) offered in the
café. Find Nea’s guilt-free baked goods at Italian coffee shop Milan Milan and
Windybank Farm Market on Fridays and Saturdays.
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