Chocolate(s) of the Day
Basquia Rice Bakery
Chocolate Madeleine
Good ++
Weight: unknown
Calories: unknown
Cost: $4.50 for 1 piece
Purchased from: Mega Mart, East Palo Alto, CA
Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookie
Good ++
Weight: unknown
Calories: unknown
Cost: $4.50 for 1 large cookie
Purchased from: Mega Mart, East Palo Alto, CA
Chocolate Ganschu Cake
Good +++
Weight: 6.9 oz. (196 g.) total piece
Calories: unknown
Cost: $6.50 for 1 slice/piece of cake
Purchased from: Mega Mart, East Palo Alto, CA
Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate & Rice Theme Week.
Today's chocolate baked treats were from Basquia Rice Bakery--a (Korean and European-inspired) bakery that uses rice flour instead of wheat flour. They offer an array of baked goods including, small and large cakes, cookies, breads, madeleines and special items like a cheesecake cooked in a green kabocha squash.
Basquia offers "the comfort of rice" -- which for me meant I could enjoy any item in their bakery, because items were made with gluten-free rice flour. (A first for me in a bakery.)
Chocolate Madeleine
This small, shell-shaped French buttery cake was topped with a generous, smooth, thick and creamy chocolate icing layer. The firm, cake-like base was buttery and sweet like a cookie, but had the slightly dense sponginess of a cake that could be eaten like a cookie. Just what I'd hoped it would be.
Ingredients: unknown
Allergen-related information: No ingredients list(ed). Contains dairy/butter, egg
Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookie
This generously-sized, buttery, fresh-baked cookie had a soft crunch with pleasing half-melted chocolate chips/chunks and a chocolate-y (gluten-free) Oreo cookie embedded in the center/middle of the cookie. This item was very close to what I remember a wheat flour-based cookie tasting like.
Ingredients: No ingredients list(ed). Contains dairy/butter, egg
Chocolate Ganschu Cake
Creamy, fluffy and lightly sponge-y cake layers were surrounded by whipped buttercream frosting and chocolate whipped cream in between layers of cake. Topped with a curl of dark chocolate and a floret of whipped cream -- this cake almost floated from the plate into my mouth. I loved the ethereal lightness of this whipped cream chocolate cake. (Mas-issneun keikeu.)
Ingredients: unknown
Allergen-related information: No ingredients list(ed) on
I went a little overboard at Basquia (and forgot about the high sugar levels in bakery items). But, these items were all fun to try, visually appealing, and available in single-serving, pre-packaged portions (thank you). And they were skillfully and thoughtfully executed. A big thank you to Basquia Rice Bakery.
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