Pinkie’s Bakery SF

I wanted a coffee and decided to grab a Macau Iced Coffee at Vega. I remembered it was on Folsom around 8th so parked just west of 8th. As I walked towards Vega I passed by Pinkie’s Bakery which I had read about so decided to grab some baked goods!

The bakery itself is really small. All the baked goods were lined up in the display case or on top of it.

I asked the girl serving me what they were known for. She mentioned the Bear Claws and said customers also liked the ginger and peanut butter cookies which had this cream cheese fillings (can’t remember names),  banana walnut bread and the carrot cake. I decided to order six items – bear claw, ginger cookie with cream cheese filling, peanut butter cookie with cream cheese filling, carrot cake, chocolate cherry (?) oatmeal cookie, and an apple turnover.

Overall, I thought the pastries were only ok. The best was the carrot cake. The ginger cookie was too sweet for me. The peanut butter cookie was a bit better. But I found that there was too much filling in both. Anna liked the chocolate cookie. I only took a small bite and thought it was ok. I love apple turnovers but this one didn’t have enough apple filling for my liking.

I started reading some articles about them and it seems they specialize in cakes so I think I’d go back but only order cake.

As I was talking to the girl, I asked her about the adjoining restaurant which is called Citizen’s Band. She said same owner but it’s a separate business.

Pinkie’s Bakery

1196 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA

Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies

While making the chicken piccata tonight I decided to be ambitious and make chocolate chip cookies at the same time. Why whole-wheat? I had a couple of leftover bags of whole-wheat flour sitting around and came across this recipe from Kim Boyce’s Good to the Grain book. What cinched it was the reviews that  I had read made it sound like these cookies would be good even though using only whole-wheat flour.

3 cups whole-wheat flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped into 1/4- and 1/2-inch pieces (I only had semi-sweet chocolate so used that)

Position  oven racks on top third and bottom third of oven. Preheat oven to 350F.

Add whole-wheat flour, baking powder, baking sode, and salt to a bowl.

Using another bowl, add butter.

Add sugars to butter.

Combine the butter and sugars until just mixed using electric mixer.

Add eggs one at a time and beat until incorporated. Add the vanilla extract.

Add the flour mixture and beat until barely combined. Scrap down sides and bottom of the bowl.

Add the chocolate and beat on low speed until just evenly distributed.

Using an ice cream scoop, create mounds of dough and place on baking sheet. Leave 3″ in between dough or else end up with cookies that spread and touch together (like some of mine). Place baking sheets on the two racks, bake 10 minutes. Then rotate the sheets top to bottom and front to back. Back another 10 minutes.

Remove cookies from the baking sheet and onto a rack to cool.

Enjoy!

Anthony’s Cookies

On my way home from work today, I stopped by  Anthony’s Cookies to pick up some cookies. I didn’t realize it was so close to my place and only a block and a half from the newest location of Arizmendi Bakery!

Anthony’s has a core group of cookies they always produce and then rotate special cookies periodically.

I ordered a dozen for $11 – 2 toffee chip, 1 German chocolate, 2 double chocolate chip, 2 cookies + cream, 1 oatmeal raisin, 2 classic chocolate chip, 2 oatmeal cranberry.

I asked the guy what they do with the leftover cookies and he said the closing guy gets his pick to take home with the rest going to a nearby shelter.

The cookies are soft but crispy around the edges. I had heard the toffee chip and cookies + cream were pretty good so I tried those two first. A little sweet for my taste but not bad.

Anthony’s Cookies

1417 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA