Will Fly For Food Blog » Switzerland http://willflyforfoodblog.com Follow Me Through a Life of Travel and Food Wed, 16 May 2012 23:40:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Philly Cheesesteak? No way! It’s Better… http://willflyforfoodblog.com/148/ http://willflyforfoodblog.com/148/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:57:09 +0000 Nearly Bionic http://willflyforfoodblog.com/?p=148 My latest cupcake adventures brought me to Philadelphia. Yes, I tried the cheese steak prior to finding this great bakery and it was good. I am definitely more of a sweets kind of gal than a steak and potato one though. Walking around the city, looking for a place to get my husbands hair cut of all things, I notice a bakery across the street. The Swiss Haus Bakery, located on 35 South 19th Street in Philadelphia’s City Center (West Side), beckoned us from behind the glass window. I had to wonder if I would be disappointed like in San Francisco with a dry crumb and overly sweet icing.

A “real northern bakery” like I’ve heard before, they offer everything from the simple chocolate chip cookie to more delicate numbers like crispy hazelnut cookies dipped in chocolate to deserts like Tiramisu, cakes and cupcakes. I’m sure that there is more, however, once I laid my eyes on the above, it was all over. Beauty in a small, sweet package.

Then, the owner told me what they were. Lemon poundcake! Rich without being too heavy, the poundcake base was filled with a nice amount of whipped lemon curd and topped with a swirl of lemon and raspberry buttercream. Not too sweet, not too buttery, just right. Adorned with white jimmies and a single raspberry, appropriately called raspberry lemonade. Kudos to the on site pastry chef for this creation.

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