Day: August 4, 2017

You may have heard of the cruffin, a cross between a croissant and a muffin, a bakery item that took San Francisco by storm in 2014, then spreading to the East Coast. It starred in an earlier Fabulous Friday. On a recent trip to Portland, Oregon, I was smitten by another West Coast pastry standout -- the Monkey Muffin from Grand Central Bakery. The next pastry craze perhaps?