After enjoying Taiyaki last week at Snowy Village, I decided to go to Stuffies pastry cafe that’s located near Phibbs Exchange bus station on my way to work. However, instead of calling them “taiyaki”, Stuffies pastry cafe calls them Cro-tai because they use croissant puff pastry on the outside instead of the traditional batter.
Stuffies pricing
Even though I find the Cro-tai options here to be more interesting than the ones offered at Snowy Village, I decided to go with the Stuffies. Stuffies are little pastries they have stuffed with a vanilla or chocolate pastry cream.
They are so small that they are bite sized and their price reflects it too. They’re $0.60 each, 7 for $3, or 12 for $5.
Stuffies
I remember having something similar in Japan except with red bean paste on the inside instead of pastry cream. The way that they tell the two flavors apart is by the shape of the pastry. The fish are filled with chocolate cream while the bears are filled with vanilla. They also offer them dipped with sprinkles for $0.90 each.
The cafe runs similarly to an Asian bakery where the pastries are individually packaged into plastic bags. You choose what you want before you pay at the counter. I wasn’t a fan of this because I prefer to have these kinds of pastries hot and right out of the pan.
Another thing that I wasn’t a fan of was that they were only filled 2/3 of the way. This made it difficult to taste the filling when I was eating it.
With that being said, the stuffies pastries here are absolutely gluten-free and dairy-free since they use nut milk for their filling. I can’t say that I’ve seen this done anywhere else.
Quick bites:
- Hit and miss on the filling
- Has a creative menu
- Good for the health conscious (organic, gluten-free, mostly dairy-free)
Thanks for the heads up about the stuffies pastries. I might go there soon!