Review: Wildflour Cronuts

The Wildflour Cafe is a nice little shop that serves coffee, pastry, and other food items. With the cronut's popularity, it was no mystery that a shop like Wildflour would come up with their own version. So I took home some Wildflour cronuts to try and here are my thoughts.

Upon entering the shop, I was greeted with a line of moms buying cronuts for their own families. I took that as a good sign.

And at the counter, I saw cronuts fresh from the oven and getting all the attention. My wife read rave reviews on the internet, and that's actually why we tried these out. But the question is, does it deserve the attention it's getting?

So I got home with one of each cronut that was still available. In clockwise order starting at the bottom right, I managed to get vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and tiramisu. The moms ahead of me picked out the last dulce de leche flavored cronuts which had a caramel colored icing. The cashier also shared that there is also a mixed berries/raspberry flavor that's all out.

This is the third opportunity for me and my wife to try cronuts and looking at these cronuts, they looked like a sure win. This version from Wildflour was unfortunately underwhelming. So how do they taste exactly? We liked how the cronuts are crispy on the outside and not oily, but we did detect a hint of oily flavor.

The "special" tiramisu flavored cronut was topped with some coffee like powder and stuffed with cream in the middle, but the tiramisu flavor was not obvious at first bite. It does taste like tiramisu after a couple of bites but I quickly looked for the moistness that's a characteristic of real tiramisu, but I guess it wouldn't be a cronut if it were moist haha. Also, don't expect to get that hint of liquor from these tiramisu flavored cronuts. I would have liked a little more cream filling for this one.

The next flavors are "standards" and are sufficiently stuffed with light custard and are differentiated with the flavored icing on top. The strawberry icing on top tastes like medicine. Out of the four flavors, this was the hardest one to finish.

The vanilla version also has custard inside and it tastes good, but don't expect the icing to taste anything like vanilla. Instead, the flavor should have been aptly named sugar glazed. Out of the four, this one is probably the sweetest. The best of the lot is the chocolate flavored cronut.

This chocolate variant delivers a semi-sweet chocolatey flavor which taste good with the flaky pastry and light custard. But the thing is, it's plain, it's simple and it's underwhelming for 120-150 pesos. You can pick these up at the Wildflour Cafe at the Podium ground level and have a taste.

We'll try to get some cronuts from Intercon and post a review, our first taste of cronuts came from there and it really taste great and serves as our baseline for cronuts. This might also be the reason why we find Wildflour's Cafe's cronuts underwhelming.