By DENI KIRKOVA
A Canadian pastry chef has come up with the next calorie-laden bakery must-have: the crookie.
The cookie-croissant mix is made by stuffing croissant dough with crushed Double Stuf Oreos and icing sugar, then baking it with half an Oreo placed on top.
The sweet invention, born in the ovens of Toronto's Clafouti Patisserie et Cafe, materialises into a delicious-looking cake, flaky and gooey all at once.
'When you bite in, it's creamy and sweet, with the cream wrapping itself in the croissant dough and a crunchiness from the Oreo bits,' says Clafouti owner and baker Olivier Jansen-Reynaud according to Thrillist.
Toronto-based publication The Grid TO challenged Jansen-Reynaud to create a new dessert using two classic but different ingredients.
Oreos became French-born Olivier's favorite cookie when he arrived in Canada many years ago, and so he decided to attempt integrating them with universally loved croissants.
It took several tries to get the shape correct so that the oozy Oreo cream stayed within the flaky pastry layers.
And now Canadian customers are ordering the perfected dessert by the half-dozen, and Jansen-Reynaud says the looks forward to ramping up production to keep up with increasing demand.
If they start making them in the USA, the crookie poses a viable alternative for office workers who don't have half an hour to spend queuing up for a trendy cronut - the famous croissant-donut hybrid.
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