You are thinking - What the hell is canelé and how do you pronounce it?

If not - its all good. If you know what these are - maybe your mouth is watering too. In the little town of Picture Rocks, AZ (where we currently live & pre-covid) we had a farmers market every weekend, or month or something. I can't remember - its been ages ago!. 

Anyways - After popping in every so often we discovered a new vendor. Clearly new to this particular farmers market. How they were not sold out in the first 5 seconds is beyond me. 

A couple of ladies selling French food. Fresh Baguettes, Canelé, and other delicious items. The old man and I gave a shrug and dove in! Canelé looked amazing. Fresh bread? who can say no to fresh bread?

Those canelé though. If I could commission her to make those for the rest of my life, I'm certain I would. Toes be damned! Diabetic or not - those things were AMAZING.

They are sweet, but almost carnalized sugar with a delicious wax on them. Edible wax - ya goofball. Like Beeswax. 

A proper description: A canelé is a small French pastry flavored with rum and vanilla with a soft and tender custard center and a dark, thick caramelized crust. It takes the shape of a small, striated cylinder up to five centimeters in height with a depression at the top

A proper Summary: French CRACK

Once we found these we stopped frequently and kept getting more and more. Probably not a good idea, but- they really are hard to resist.

If you are asking yourself "Well how was this on your bucket list if you didn't even know they existed?" You forget - EVERYTHING is on my bucket list. If I haven't tried it. Its on it. Whether I have the guts to do it or not is a whole other story!