I’ve been meaning to go to Craftsman and Wolves (C&W) for a while, but I’m never in the Mission during the day time much. C&W is a patisserie style bakery serving up some pretty intricate and innovative pastries. I first heard about them when a coworker of mine talked about a famous breakfast muffin they have that is aptly named “Rebel Within”. It is a soft boiled egg (still runny inside) encased in a savoury muffin with sausage, chives and asiago cheese on top. These babies tend to sell out very early in the morning.
I had an opportunity to go in the morning after I scarfed down my Double Pain Au Chocolate from Tartine and packed one for a snack or lunch. At $7 a pop, these things don’t really come cheap.
Sadly by the time I got around to eating a few hours later, the contents of my bag crushed the muffin and caused some big time yolk leakage! A little bit unfortunate, but it was still good to eat.
Overall, it’s a pretty good muffin/scone/biscuit. My tastes would like it to be more savoury and I found it a little bit on the ‘safer’ or blander side. The egg inside is a real novelty. But aside from that… that’s kind of it and a little bit underwhelming after you get over the sheer coolness of the breakfast pastry.
If you haven’t had it, definitely try it out. It’s good, but it’s more of a one time thing in my opinion though… unless you happen to really really love it.
Photo credited to a Yelp user.
Who feels up to the challenge of figuring out how to make these?
Holy! Never mind. Kudos to these guys for doing the pain staking trial and error egg tests to perfect these muffins (48 eggs later). They answered all my questions for me. This is some legit food blogging!
http://www.followmefoodie.com/2013/08/the-rebel-within-egg-baked-inside-a-bacon-cheese-muffin-recipe/
Yea I was just going to post that 🙂