A Canadian bakery has made something remarkably similar to New York’s cronut, calling it a croissnut.
The Maritime Pasty Company, in Halifax, has had people lining up at 6 a.m. to get the treat, and they only make about 200 a day.
The company started selling them on July 27, and has been marketing them on Twitter using the hashtag #Cronut.
Leah Jones, of the Maritime Pasty Company, said that a customer of theirs recommended they start marketing the creation, which is like a cinnamon bun but it’s made with croissant dough, telling her that she should Google “cronut.”
“We’ve got to do it now,” Jones recalled her and some colleagues saying. “It’s just so new, it’s so different, it’s like who would of thought of it. A donut out of croissant dough.”
“It’s very delicate,” she said, adding that they fry it in grapeseed oil, a much lighter oil. “It tastes really light, and almost delicate and feminine in a way.”
Dominique Ansel Bakery in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood started the very popular creation about a month ago.
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