Moreliana Panaderia revisit

Does this window look familiar by now?

It should. I was already there twice in one week and by golly, I was here again for the third time but with two other folks in tow...

The lady there probably recognizes me by now (probably as the wierd Filipina chick who tries to surreptitiously take photos)...Seriously though, she is super nice and I get to practice my elementary Spanish skills with her when I ask her about certain pastries.

Each and every time I've gone, there have been different items that weren't there before. It's kind of fun not knowing what will be there sometimes. Below, there were several items on the trays that were "new" to me, which I ended up getting.

On another tray were these cool looking pink pastries rolled in coconut. I may have to get that next time...

There were those long stick cookies again, plus some with sprinkles, some jelly dotted cookies and the "ring" cookies that Kirk blogged about (that his wife likes), which are called "coricos", which are corn flour based cookies. I read on the internet that these are a popular in the northern Mexican states. Some sites also note that the cookies can be bought packaged.

The pastries before the lady bagged them up:

Graffitied wall across the street on Quintard...

The cookies and pastries at home. The top left corner is the "coyota de piloncillo" which I bought last time. I really liked the deeply caramelized filling. The upper right corner and lower left corner were flaky thin pastries with a caramelized sugar top. Those are so good and I will have to look for those next time. In the middle is the "corico". The half moon was the empanada de cajeta, which Bert really liked. Lastly, the bottom right corner was a deflated cupcake looking pastry that had a cheese top/filling.

Unfortunately,I didn't really like this one. It's not sweet and the corn flour was not something I'm used to.

I liked the texture of the cheese top here. The rest of the pastry itself was kind of soft and crumbled easily though.

Here's another look at those flaky pastries. This was the rectangular one..

and this was the longer rectangle, which didn't last long (because I ate it)!


Previous visits to Moreliana (actually one post that combined two visita):
September 2013

One note - last post I mentioned that had "bolovanes" which is the Spanish version of saying the French "vol au vents", a flaky pastry with a savory filling like tuna or chicken. I asked the lady if they had any out and she told me that those were special order only. Each piece was $1.50 and a minimum order is 40 pieces which makes that order $60. Yikes. I guess you'd have to be having some sort of special occasion or party to order those.

From my past experience here with their pastries, I think it's safe to say that this bakery will be on my regular rotation!!! I love the variety and the fact that these have so much care and quality going into them, unlike the mass produced kinds at the supermarkets.