Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Food Finds Get In Ma Mouth: Figgy doughnut edition
Posted by Brad Kaplan @BradKaplanATL on Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- Brad Kaplan
- Fig cream slider, Revolution Doughnuts. (Take that, squirrels)
It's fig season. I can tell because our fig tree keeps being raided by squirrels who know the exact right moment to pick a fig to prevent it from falling into human hands. Bastards. Fig marauding bastards. If I had a shotgun, I just might sit on the back porch with an eye on the fig tree, waiting for a foolhardy squirrel to attempt to swipe a fig before my watchful eyes. Of course, they're probably smart enough to use ninja techniques or hypnosis or some other such subterfuge to get past me and my hypothetical shotgun. Bastards. The point is... it's fig season. And Revolution Doughnuts in Decatur has been serving up "figgy cream sliders" - a spread of tender, sweet, sliced figs and whipped mascarpone stuffed inside two halves of a sugar flecked yeast doughnut. I saw them on Facebook. I saw them on Twitter. I had to have one. Luckily for me, Revolution has managed to evade the squirrels. Yesterday morning, I waited patiently in line, surrounded by seemingly hundreds of toddlers happily munching on doughnuts and screaming in joy. When I arrived at the counter, I ordered my figgy slider. And a salted caramel. And a dark chocolate-drenched doughnut for good measure; I don't get out to Decatur very often.
But the best decision I made was pairing that figgy slider (and the other two doughnuts) with an iced "Campesino Mocha" - cold brewed coffee from Café Campesino beans with a bit of chocolate, grated cinnamon, and almond extract. Let's just say the figs were happy. And I was happy. And the squirrels were quietly fuming that any figs got past their grubby little hands.
While the figgy sliders aren't an everyday item, they will be making frequent appearances for the next several weeks until fig season ends (well, California fig season - Revolution does have to import some of these figs due to dwindling local supplies, and bastard squirrels). Revolution was also doing peach sliders and continues to do a strawberry version, too. Check their Facebook page for frequent updates.
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Get in Ma Mouth is a look at delicious things around Atlanta. It all started with THIS fig and mascarpone donut "slider," but knows no bounds other than that of eager hunger - sweet or savory, solid or liquid, homemade or store-bought. Click here for an archive of "Get in Ma Mouth" temptations.
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