$5.50 for a kouign amann?! Culinary legend Thomas Keller charges a mere $4 for the Brittany inspired baked good in Beverly Hills. Les Madeleines proprietor Romina Rasmussen has the gall to charge $5.50 for an equivalent version in the sleepy Salt Lake City flats. Sure, Keller and his vaunted crew have a great version with buttery pastry layers and a caramelized sugar shell. However, I’m more inclined to repeat the Les Madeleines version, which they somehow spell Kouing Aman.

This [queen] features a thin, crisp coating. Flaky, pull apart layers of concentric pastry clearly contain butter, but don’t come off as too rich or sweet. Rasmussen even turns the pastry into bread pudding, which from the looks of it, would probably defeat the purpose of her initial restraint.