Supplicant before Thee! Food of Icelandic Gods! Ah! Witness Bjork’s pale hands kneading the tender dough for ravished and weary cyclists! Oh Hekla! Joy of Joys! I tremble in anticipation…
Or something like that. A bit of research indicates that only here in Boston are these pastries known as “Hekla, Icelandic Pastry”. It is my non-Thursday bicycling obsession and fuel. I can’t find any reference to the authenticity to them, though Hekla is Iceland’s most famous volcano. I really find my groove with these.
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What the Hekla’s that?
(hahahaha)
Hahahahaha!!!!!
My name is Hekla and I live in Iceland and I actually found a blog which had my name in it, ok but it had a picture of a pastry from Boston called my name also! That just sounds weird! But cool too 😀
I fell madly in love, two days ago, with the Hekla at Peets, Coolidge Corner, Brookline. Exactly as in the picture here. Looks like what I imagine an Icelandic volcano must look like.
It, the Hekla at Peets, reminded me of bapka aka bopke, a Jewish/Russian yeast cake. The difference: the bapka comes with about seven of these Hekla all stuck together in a round shape. I loved that I could find this individualized bapka. And such heaven working my way through it. Took a long time to eat, and I treasured every morsel!