Forget Chocolate Cake, It’s All About The Cronut! The Amazing Baked Good That’s Taking NYC By Storm

Okay, we’re pretty sure we’ve just found our new favourite Friday treat. Now... who wants to give us a plane ticket to NYC so we can stock up on these bad boys?

The Daily Mail reports that there was a line 30-people deep outside the Manhattan bakery Dominique Ansel this morning as people desperately tried to get their hands on a cronut.

What on earth is a cronut you ask? Well it’s a baked good that’s made from half a croissant and half a doughnut. Amazing or what?

Yuummmmmmm!

This incredible hybrid-pastry  was unveiled for the first time last week and since it made its debut, it has been selling like, well, a hot cake.

The cronut is made from thin layers of croissant dough that are deep fried, rolled in rose sugar and then filled with Tahitian vanilla cream. The top layer of the cronut is covered in a delicious rose-flavoured glaze and the treat is finished off iwth some crystallized rose petals on top which act as a pretty bit of garnish. Forgive us while we drool all over our keyboards...

Delicious. Absolutely delicious!

“A cronut is not as simple as frying up some croissant dough,” said Dominique Ansel, the owner and head chef of the bakery.

“We actually make a special laminated dough that is sheeted and folded different than a croissant,” he added.

Can someone PLEASE bring the cronut to Europe (specifically Ireland)? We’ll love you forever!