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I visited the Butter Bandit Bakery popup in Ono Poke after seeing them in the Seattle Restaurant Week menu. They offered some very intriguing sweet and savory dessert combinations, interesting enough that I decided to preorder the entire pack. Pickup was pretty easy, especially since I decided to line up for some poke as well. SRW One of Everything Bundle ($35) - This bundle comes with 8 total items, four rice crispies and four cookies: Crispy - All four flavors come with a base of tender rice crispies, mixed in the perfect ratio with marshmallow, allowing them to remain fluffy and soft squares instead of becoming dense and hard to chew. They are sweetened and then combined with bold savory flavors, which makes for interesting flavor combinations that aren't unwelcome, albeit not something that I'd eat too often. Kimchi Fried Rice - This one gives off a deep savoriness to start. Only a slight spice rears up later after sweetness envelops the taste buds. It's not particularly funky, so the gochujang probably isn't too strong. There's the additional umami complexity from the dried seaweed shredded on top. This is the most balanced flavor profile out of the four; it's strongly flavored, but not like getting punched in the face like the other three. Umami Garlic - Really overpoweringly strong umami notes in this square. It's like eating straight MSG with sugar. Thai Coconut Curry - Interestingly this one is very pale colored. It's nicely coconutty sweet which then transitions to a light spicy note. The base flavor tastes almost exactly like the jar of Thai yellow curry spice mixture I have in my pantry! Japanese Curry - This one is really yellow in color. It's a really fragrant spice mixture with tons of aromatic allium notes in the curry. It's really strongly flavored, like stronger than actually eating Japanese curry. All the above - really interesting and unique flavor combinations. I'm glad I tried them, but they aren't for me! I feel like the baker, David, really wanted to express the savory flavors. He certainly succeeds in that aspect, but they are just way too strong for my tastes. For example, the two curries are usually eaten with bland rice, which helps to temper down some of the stronger flavors to make a more balanced dish. These crispies are seasoned to the max and the flavors are like a punch to the face with a 10 ton truck. Onto the cookies: Miso Caramel Turon - This is a chewy sugar cookie glazed with a thick caramel that crackles like crème brulee topping, almost burnt sugar-like. It's stuffed with a jackfruit banana paste that's really strongly jackfruit flavored. Morita Gochujang S'mores - The base is sweet and slightly crumbly, tasting of wheat. Melted bittersweet chocolate is applied above that, then finally a square marshmallow at the top. That marshmallow is certainly something. It's super smoky, funky, and yet really sweet and somewhat spicy. Ube Confetti - This cookie has a deep purple color from the ube. It's hard to get ube flavor without extract and I'm not sure how much he uses given that the cookie isn't very strongly ube flavored. Instead it kind of tastes like a sugar cookie with slight earthiness. It's nice and chewy inside and it's dressed with a bit of sweet frosting and some really thin and unevenly cut sprinkles on top that seem to be hand made. The cookie texture is surprisingly vegan. It's honestly indistinguishable from a non-vegan cookie. Strawberry Matcha Latte - This one actually smells deeply of matcha and the taste does have a kind of bitter grassy flavor, mixed with bits of dehydrated strawberries. Quite pleasing. It's studded with white chocolate chips which are somewhat chalky due to being oat milk instead of dairy. I find Butter Bandit Bakery to be really difficult to rate. I think the techniques used and the base quality of both the crispies and the cookies is really good. It's just those flavor combinations, especially the sweet/savory ones, are a little too much for me, even though I consider myself an adventurous eater! read more
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