Bakery comparison: Carol's Pastry Shop and Mrs. Backer's Pastry Shop

Carol's lemon tart, eclairs, chocolate donut, maple bar, wedding cookie  Everything was good but the pate choux shells of the eclairs was great. The filling not so much.  Carol's Pastry Shop was established in 1948 in the Salt Lake valley in the sugarhouse area.  Find out more at their site: https://carolspastryshop.wixsite.com/carolspastry

Mrs. Backer's was established in the Salt Lake valley in 1941 in the downtown area.  Find out more at their site: http://www.mrsbackers.com/    Mrs. Backer's chocolate donut, eclairs. wedding cookie, maple bear donut  (continued below)

 

Mrs. Backer's pink sugar cookie, macaroon (coconut based-not the French sandwich macaron cookies), fancy cakes-german chocolate and pineapple rum chocolate.  Everything was great except the maple bear and chocolate donut which were just good.  

We're probably going to stick with Mrs. Backer's Pastry Shop for the most part. We did a taste test of eclairs from all over the valley including Mrs. Backer's Pastry Shop, Carol's Pastry Shop, Granite Bakery, Schmidt's Bakery (which does have the best marzipan cakes in the valley in our opinion!), Leslie's French Pastries, Eclair French Pastry (where the eclairs are $5.00 each and about 20-30% of the time the filling has been curdled inside-do not recommend but should probably try them again), V & R Bakery (which have some of the best danish pastries I've ever had along with rustic breads, cakes, amazing individual deserts,etc...),  and some grocery store eclairs.  Dan's grocery store use to have really good eclairs at some of their stores but now they tastes like the same prepacked filling that is used by grocery store bakeries and even some little individual bakeries.  

Mrs. Backer's eclairs won over-all for their pate choux, house made pastry cream, and chocolate ganache. 

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Sunday Randomness #122 : Two Grandkitties!

Daisy with O

 

Look at those adorable eyes on Miss F!

O exploring when he came to visit.

Miss F in the typical overcast shade of the northwest.

O tuckered himself out exploring.

Miss F sunning-an unusual sight up in her northern state!

O took a day to warm up to his new surroundings while his parents were on vacation but he quickly figured out the cat tunnel and jumping onto furniture.  He particularly delighted in jumping onto things in Daisy's room in the middle of the night and it sounded like he was deliberately knocking things off of the nightstand, desk, dresser, etc...  We still loved having him visit!  Maybe Miss F will come for a visit someday too!