Filled with cookie dough, glazed with chocolate and covered with tiny chocolate chips.
Bakeries in ancient towns which used to sell nothing more processed than a ham sandwich are now stuffed with the gargantuan, super-sized sugary muffins, cookies and and glazed doughnuts you see in every Costa outlet in Britain.
With wild candy-store looks in their eyes, Megan, 7, Kyle, 5, and Sean, 2, would load up on cookies and chocolate and glazed doughnuts and doughnut holes.
Knowing we had many estaminets before us, we went easy on dessert, splitting a crème brûlée, which was seasoned with powdered speculoos, the spice cookies popular in northern France and Belgium, and glazed with a crust of raw brown sugar.
This six-year-old bakery is filled with ideal picnic sweets like crumb muffins, strawberry and cream cheese croissants, glazed doughnuts, chocolate chip scones, coconut custard pies, lemon chiffon cakes, peach almond tarts and chocolate crinkle cookies.
Huckleberry will have Easter egg shortbread cookies and bunny-shaped ginger cookies along with an Easter brunch and dinner catering menu that includes quiche, carrot cake, spiced honey glazed spiral ham and charred asparagus.
More unusual and just as pleasing were the caramelized pineapple slice glazed with a custard sauce, and the combination plate of baked Portuguese cheese, poached pears, a drizzle of lavender honey and two crisp almond cookies.
Condensation glazed the windows.
