“The place are the songs of spring? Ay, The place are they?
Assume not of them, thou hast thy music too-”
Keats, To Autumn
Each time I consider this season of the yr, I erase the final, lengthy kicks of summer season and discover myself strolling school quads, listening to the roar of the on-rushing faculty yr, a crunch underfoot, shivering chilled mornings, ears ringing with the heart beat of a crowded stadium, inhaling every night bonfire. However every year I’m reminded, the season can also be the recent, fading solar stretching shadows throughout pavement within the afternoon, sweat beading on the stroll from the bus cease, a heat night swim, and cherishing the return of a day’s warmth after the yr’s first chill.
The Baked Maple Pumpkin Latte
My identical forgetting and remembering takes place in my love of the flavors of our seasonal drinks and pastries every year. I start by craving a heat, baked maple pumpkin latte within the blue-gray daybreak of a chilling November morning, however truly discover myself smiling within the solar on the park throughout from DeMun, an iced pumpkin latte pressed into the warmth of my palm, lengthy earlier than the primary chilly daybreak.
The Spiced Apple Latte
When the primary cool breezes of fall do arrive, I’ll be at our Euclid cafe on my technique to the workplace, excited to strive our two new spiced apple drinks. Beginning with a cinnamon-infused apple cider they’ve ready, my favourite baristas can both put together a Spiced Apple Latte, or a Spiced Apple Chai. Lengthy earlier than I arrive, they’ll have mixed cinnamon sticks, brown sugar, apple cider, and salt over warmth, simmered and lowered it to a syrup, and prepped it for service.
The Spiced Apple Chai
My plan is to rock with the Spiced Apple Latte till coat climate arrives, then spend the primary few weeks of fall cozying up with Spiced Apple Chai and scorching BMPL’s.
Each time I would like a snack and am within the temper to indulge, I all the time examine our seasonal choices first. August brings 4 new pastries to our bakeries, and so they every fill a unique area of interest in my urge for food.
The Apricot Goat Cheese Scone
My breakfast alternative lies between sophistication and heartiness; to benefit from the traditional mixture of apricots and goat cheese in our latest buttermilk scone, or to go daring with a Cherry Walnut Muffin, full of candy cherries and wealthy walnuts. I’ll should go along with every morning’s temper!
The Cherry Walnut Muffin
Once I’ve received time to linger and benefit from the sights and sounds of the Euclid’s morning rush, I’ll select the Caramel Apple Mini Loaf.
The Caramel Apple Mini Loaf
Freshly baked, apple-cinnamon loaves are topped and baked with a layer of sliced apples, then drizzled with a caramel topping. They remind me of a classy caramel apple – greatest eaten with a fork.
The Pumpkin Snickerdoodle
For a day snack or to fulfill my cravings for sweets, I’ll snag a single, delicious Pumpkin Snickerdoodle. These comfortable, vegan-friendly, pumpkin cookies have the thick, cakey chew of a snickerdoodle, with a pumpkin-spice pop.
Whether or not you mourn the passing of summer season or thrill on the considered cool walks by way of autumn-soaked evenings, I hope you discover the proper match in your temper in our new seasonal specials.
– Aaron J.
