Arguably the greatest hybrid since the 'Cronut' ( croissant/donut), and hot on the tails of its 'Yumnut' (Yum Yum/donut), Marks & Spencer has just launched the 'Cretzel'. This new pretzel/croissant combination sounds like the delicious salty baked treat we never knew we needed.
The brand has created this wonder to capture all the best bits of both baked goods. It describes the bake as "combining the perfect chewy bite of a pretzel with the luxurious buttery, flaky pastry of a croissant".
Explaining how the tasty product came to life, M&S Bakery Product Developer Kirsty Rowley said in a press release: "Inspired by our customers' love of the sweet and salty flavour combination, we bring them the Cretzel! The Cretzel combines those contrasting flavours and is really versatile, great on its own, with a coffee at breakfast or delicious with a filling for lunch."
Each Cretzel is baked fresh in the M&S in-store bakeries, topped with traditional lye coating and perfectly finished with a sprinkling of sea salt flakes.
Cretzels look like they'll go well with savoury fillings like ham and cheddar to switch up your lockdown lunches, but M&S says they'll taste just as great with a generous swipe of butter.
Marks & Spencer Cretzels are available now for £1 each. Get them pre-bagged on M&S in-store bakery counters.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
