Nügateau Review

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of visiting Nügateau, tasting their new spring/summer menu. Nügateau is Toronto’s first éclair-only bakery and café located on 717 Queen Street West, and their recently opened second location at Holt Renfrew Yorkdale. The spring/summer menu includes 12 all-new luxurious flavours. The new menu features innovative flavour combinations and art décor with local touches bringing Canadians to a new scale.

The new flavours on the menu include: Annabelle, Apricot Saffron, Banana Caramel, Lemon Kalamansi Meringue, Mango Violet, Mont Tremblant, Raspberry Rose, Red Rocket, St. Domingue, Summer Berry, Vanilla Jasmine, Pîna ColadaFor those who have never heard of éclairs before, they originated during the 19th century in France. The traditional way of making these unique pastries would be with choux dough filled with cream and topped with icing. The dough is typically piped into an oblong shape, baked until crisp with a hollow inside. The inside is then filled with vanilla, coffee, or chocolate flavoured custard, or with whipped cream, finally topped with fondant icing.

I was able to try out four of their new flavours: Mont Tremblant, Raspberry Rose, Mango Violet, and Annabelle.When I think of éclair, I often think of the pastries that contain overly sweet custard fillings. So when Butter PR manager, Zoe ordered four for me, I was a little hesitant of the amount because I was worried how each one would have an overwhelming custard taste, filling me up instantly. Once I tried them, I was completely wrong! Instead of the traditional custard filling, Nügateau’s fillings were all made from natural ingredients creating natural sweetness and finely whipped custard resulting in a mousse texture. When tasted, it felt light in my mouth rather than the regular heavy custard feeling. I could taste the ingredients they used in each of the pastries, with no artificial flavour included. The secret to keeping a well-balanced palette with Nügateau’s savoury flavours was by adding white chocolate into the filling, making it just right.My experience overall at Nügateau was unforgettable.

Their pastries were one of best I’ve ever had. Each of them was beautifully decorated; I didn’t even want to eat them because there were so nicely made. The ones I’ve tried were simply delicious and did not feel stuffed at all afterwards. There’s no doubt that I would go back and try all the other flavours.If you’re not much of a sweet tooth person like me but at the same time enjoys desserts and pastries, you won’t regret your decision by heading over and trying one yourself!via: novellamag