The Thin Croissant Arrives in Israel
If you spend most of your time on TikTok, you might not be familiar with the term "croissant." The world, it turns out, belongs to the young who are taking the classic French pastry and giving it an innovative upgrade. Recently, the “crookie” – a particularly ugly but delicious hybrid between a croissant and a chocolate chip cookie – entered our lives. Now, the trend sweeping the United States has arrived – the “croissant-dak,” a flat croissant first baked in South Korea that exploded at "Alexander's" patisserie in California. This week, it comes to a special pop-up called "Croissant-dak," running until Friday only at the TLV Mall, in collaboration with "Lehamim Bakery" and Nadav Bornstein’s "Food News" community.
After tasting the flat croissant and being particularly impressed, Bornstein approached Uri Sheft from "Lehamim Bakery." After numerous attempts, they managed to create the perfect croissant-dak – a laminated, crispy pastry with a caramel glaze. The croissant-dak is a classic French croissant made from rich butter dough. During baking, it is flattened using a special technique that retains its shape and taste but completely changes the texture, making it crunchy. It is then dipped in various coatings topped with different toppings. The pop-up will offer five flavors: white chocolate with raspberry crumbs and dried strawberries, chocolate-pistachio ganache with roasted pistachio pieces (pictured), lemony white chocolate with candied lemon peels, white chocolate with black sesame and halva, and blond chocolate with chocolate chip cookie chunks (all priced at NIS 28).
“Croissant-dak,” TLV Mall, now until Friday (kosher)
Or Spitz’s New Workshops
At 27, with almost half a million Instagram followers, huge profits, and a (too) pink pastry shop, Or Spitz keeps making waves. It’s been only six years since she appeared on "Bake Off Israel," and now she surprises with workshops – three, to be exact.
The first is “Cakes Workshop for Mothers and Daughters” (confirmed: fathers and children are also welcome), where you learn to wrap and pipe drip cakes and decorated cakes; the second is a pastry and marketing workshop where you’ll learn how to make your pastries famous, and who better to teach this than Spitz; the third is a surprising one – a self-fulfillment writing workshop. For years, Ori has been writing her aspirations, guiding, doing a lot, and working towards achieving them. After receiving requests, she decided to open a self-fulfillment writing class with her aunt, a social worker, who accompanies her.
Or Spitz’s workshops (kosher), 3 Bograshov, Tel Aviv. For more details, visit the pastry chef’s website.
The Chefs' Food Market
When was the last time you ate a dish by one of the following chefs – Israel Aharoni, Haim Cohen, Avi Bitton, Avi Levy – for only NIS 40? MEEX Sharonim will hold the Foodies Festival next week, lasting four days, during which the chefs' dishes will be sold for up to NIS 40. Among the dishes: chicken popcorn and Dutch fries by Israel Aharoni, home fries and wings by Haim Cohen, South American asado sandwich by Avi Levy, schnitzel in challah by Avi Bitton, and more. Foodies Festival, May 28-31, MEEX Sharonim.
Tel Aviv Art and Food Fair
The beautiful challahs of baker and pastry chef Omer Horev will star at the boutique art and food fair “Sidurim Shel Shishi,” held next weekend. After a successful local art fair on International Women’s Day, producer and curator Michal Efrati, Italian kitchen expert Asaf Grushkovski, and PR and marketing professional Yanir Tadmor gathered to produce another art fair, this time larger and more diverse. The chosen location is a studio made up of two urban spaces, which will host a selection of local Israeli artists selling their artworks in various types and categories at accessible prices.
The concept behind the “Sidurim Shel Shishi” art fair is twofold – on one hand, allowing you to come and buy everything you need for the weekend under one roof, and on the other, supporting local artists and contemporary Israeli art. Among the exhibitors: ceramic designer Ela Bari, photographer Dana Simonian, wood carver Yuval Buchstab, illustrator Yuli Tamara, floral bag designer Noam Applebaum, tattoo artists from “Boulder Line,” and “Mom’s Jachnun.”
“Sidurim Shel Shishi,” May 31 (12:00-16:00), 9 Beit Oved, Tel Aviv.
TASA+’s Decadent Packages
Calorie counters – skip to the next item. Now, let’s focus on an insane amount of sweet doughs, colorful coatings, and chocolaty fillings. The candy shop of the +TASA chain is a paradise for sweet lovers, and if we can distill the population: the young. Unique flavored chocolates from around the world, various (some weird) candies, marshmallow-flavored cornflakes, and more await you at the beautiful store in the Levinsky Market. At the store, we also found fruit-flavored Oreos (from South Korea) and Ragusa chocolate, considered particularly popular.
Now, the chain is launching stunning bakery packages, from which we sampled a cake slice and a donut and were blown away. The Bakery Box & Blendi package includes six donuts in various fillings and flavors, two cookie pies, a trio of éclairs, a large cookie, and a Blendi drink (NIS 179.90); the Extreme Bakery Box includes six donuts, two cookie pies, two éclair trios, two large cookies, and two Blendis (NIS 229). The cookie pie, by the way, is baked by a pastry chef according to a recipe developed at TASA.
And one more sentence about the sugar-laden Blendi drinks: an ice-based milk drink with rich whipped cream in various flavors, coming in a stylish can. You can choose from flavors: Blendi cheesecake and strawberries, Blendi nocciatella, Blendi hocus lotus, Blendi salted caramel, and coffee. Decadent and indulgent.
Available at +TASA, 31 Levinsky, Tel Aviv; 54 Ibn Gabirol, Tel Aviv; or through Wolt delivery.
