Peach Danish and oh so good. Great fruit glaze combined with a wondrous baked dough, this place is a find.
The Maple Street Bakery & Cafe is located on Maple Street (duh) in Abita Springs off of LA59 north of I-12 near Covington, Louisiana. I discovered this place when doing the post on the Abita Springs Cafe. Sorry for showing you so little. I only made one stop here, but will be back!
Abita Springs is a sleepy community first made famous from its spring water. You drive four blocks in any directions, you are out of town. This place and the outlying area boasts a brewery, a coffee-bean roasting plant, a water bottling plant, a restaurant, and a bakery ... a worthwhile stop if you live in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Covington or Slidell.
If you wait until 9 a.m., the drive from New Orleans is around 45 minutes.
Lemon Danish:
Don't you just want to put your face in that lemon curd. Like I said the dough part is wondrous. And I haven't even gotten to the icing yet. I could easily gobble up two or three of these decadent delights.
Cream Danish:
This is a traditional favorite of the Danish pastries. Cream cheese makes everything better especially if there is icing already on it.
Bucket List Items:
Oatmeal-Raison Cookies and they're not small. Don't they look good!
Chocolate-Chip Cookies, the big kind. And to think that the first chocolate chip cookie was an accident. Not an accident, but Devine intervention.
Pastry Case:
This is what greets you when you enter the Maple Street Bakery: lemon danish, peach danish, fruit turnovers, petit fours, cheese danish, cherry danish, and a bunch of stuff on the bottom that I can't see. Don't you want to take one (or two) of everything home with you?
