The Winter Menu is Here.

Pancake of the Day: something with a honey chai glaze.

What I ate: The featured Winter Pancake, which is a buttermilk pancake with caramelized apples, a caramel syrup and mascarpone whipped.

What I thought: It doesn’t quite come up to the Spiced Pear Pancake, which was one of the best concoctions, but it’s good.

Other info: Snooze tweaks the menu seasonally, usually totally changing out a bene and pancake and making a few other changes. Of course there is still a pancake of the day.

For those of you who don’t know, Snooze is taking over the western United States. Although, in general, I’m not fond of chains, I hope that people will appreciate Snooze and that as it gets larger, it will not decrease in quality.  I’m going to include a link to a video for a news feature from Phoenix.

http://www.fox10phoenix.com/clip/11007995/corys-corner-snooze-am-eatery

A Month of Pancakes

Abandon format! I’m going to do something different for December. Here are pictures of all the pancakes I ate. I probably don’t remember enough about each one to write about it individually. But I WILL highlight my favorite of the bunch.

It looks like the top was something with a sweet sauce and cinnamon butter. Obviously, I asked for extra of the latter. The next was a coffee or mocha concoction, which I’m sure I enjoyed. Not sure what the middle pancake was, but it looks like it had a caramel drizzle.

See the pancake with the pink flecks? That was on Dec. 23rd, a pre-Christmas peppermint pancake with minty mascarpone. THIS was my favorite. I know that peppermint isn’t something you usually associate with pancakes, but I, unexpectedly, find it delicious. The original pancake also had white chocolate chips in it, and if you like sweet, I’m sure it enhanced the flavor.

The last is the last pancake for the year for me. Apples with caramel sauce, which I asked for on the side. There is an almond streusel topping with a cinnamon dusting and mascarpone whipped topping. This was good, if a bit sweeter than my favorites.

One more month to go to finish out my  year of a weekly pancake!!

Which, if any of the above, would you have chosen as appropriate for the month of December?

2/5/14–Caramel Apple Pie Pancake

6:45 a.m.  

What I ate: Caramel Apple Pie Pancake: buttermilk batter filled with sliced Gala apples and topped with caramel, marscapone whipped cream, and pie crust crumbles. (See picture above.)

Actual Pancake of the Day: Apple pancake but with a peanut butter cream, and candied almonds.

Why I ordered this: A few weeks ago Snooze, Fort Collins changed to its winter menu.  Snooze has signature items that never/seldom change, and on my first two or three trips with this menu, I neglected to see that the third (of the seasonal four) had changed. I was waffling on the pancake of the day, but thought the Caramel Apple sounded a tad better, and since I’d never tried it, I thought I’d give it a shot.

What I thought: I asked for them to go easy on the caramel due to my not liking really sweet stuff. The mascapone whipped cream really helped cut the sweetness, although I suspect most syrup lovers would want the full complement of the caramel.