They say that only two groups of people give free samples away: drug dealers and fudge makers. It isn’t quite true. Our friend Jean-Marc Chatellier offers free samples of this ultimate butter cake at his famous bakery in the riverside township of Millvale, PA. But the logic is the same in all three cases: one taste and you’re hooked. The only difference is this: Breton Shortbread a/k/a Butter Cakes a/k/a Gateau Breton beats them all when served with a dollop of crème fraîche and a berry or two.
This recipe went in and out of Volume I for ages.
SCOTT: “It’s a cake, not a cookie.”
KATE: “So what? We cut it into bars half the time anyway.”
SCOTT: “No bar cookies!”
KATE: “But it’s too good to leave out.”
SCOTT: “Do it as a tassie?”
KATE: “I dunno… Isn’t that cheating?”
See what happens when you have two authors and both of them are of two minds? But now that we have a blog to fill, with that harvest tang in the air? Oh, heck yeah.
Honest to God, folks. You can build an entire bakery around this recipe. They are that good.
