Finding Croissadas

By now, you’ve surely heard of the craze for cronuts. But being New York based, getting an authentic cronut is simply too hard in the islands. I had a remote chance of sampling Canada’s frissant during vacation but too much to do in too little time. So here in the islands, there were two cronut contenders, the cream-filled croissada from the Pacific Beach Hotel and the suggestively named BUTTerNUT from Regal Bakery.

I planned to make a side trip for some Buttnuts, but lo and behold, a pack of croissadas came my way! No, not those croissadas from Pacific Beach Hotel but instead from the Sunday brunch at the Halekulani. Yes, this posh hotel serves their own version of the croissant-malasada hybrid. And they are tasty, like a malasada on the outside but on the inside, layered and flakey like a croissant. The Halekulani croissadas are tiny sized to complement, not outshine the brunch menu. I’m not sure if these are available at other Halekulani dining locations or at other times, but if you happen to brunch there, you must bite into a croissada for me.