Between you, me and everyone in Cyber Spring, I’ve never met a donut I didn’t like. That deep-fried dough slathered in a sugary glaze, or maybe shmeared with a little chocolate frosting. That’s good eats.
At the Woodmoor Pastry Shop (10127 Colesville Rd in Four Corners), the donuts are on a scale of extra freakin’ awesome. The pumpkin pie isn’t too bad, either.
But let’s get to the donuts. The tantalizing glazed donuts (59 cents each) are like snowflakes — no two are alike in shape, and they’re surprisingly light and fluffy. They’re Vail powder when compared with Krispy Kreme’s sugar-shellacked Vermont sleet. Try skiing on that crap.
Woodmoor’s chocolate-frosted donuts (59 cents each) are just as tasty, though the layer of sweet chocolate icing varies from lightly shmeared, to heavily spackled. But that’s the beauty of homemade, hand-frosted donuts — they’re all original works of art.
The frosting factor also fluctuates with the chocolate-frosted eclairs ($1.19 for each small eclair), but there’s usually just enough density to contrast against the fluffy pastry and squishy cream filling. The filling — a sweet vanilla pudding — would have benefited from less sugar and more fat for a fuller, creamier taste.
But then, I’ve never met a chocolate-frosted eclair that I didn’t like.
Filed under “pie”, the filling for their pumpkin pie ($7 for an 8-inch pie) has a much softer consistency than what’s usually found in other pies. It’s less like a custard, more like a thin pudding. But its flavor — the sweet pumpkin spiked with earthy cinnamon and nutmeg — is brilliant and would work well (in taste, not texture) with fresh whipped cream.
Unlike buttery pie crusts, which mute the filling’s flavors with a greasy aftertaste, Woodmoor’s pie crust is thin, somewhat soft and pleasantly silent. And forget about that overcooked fluted trim that ruins the last bite with bitterness. Ain’t none of that here.
The demure little shop does takeout business only, but the cashiers are patient, helpful and address all their customers as “dear”.
And they’re open on Thanksgiving Day!
Woodmoor Pastry Shop, 10127 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, (301) 593-7667.
Photo courtesy of Silver Spring Daily Photo.
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I grew up on donuts and cakes from that place. Not to mention the Redskins helmet cupcakes. If you want to experience a fantastic smell, stand under the vent behind the shop when they are baking. All of South Silver Spring used to smell like that back when there was the Giant bakers.
The only smell that I associate South Silver Spring with is the aroma of urine emanating from under the trestle on Georgia Ave.
Speaking of bakeries, DTSS could use a good bakery. Maybe we could squeeze one between Olazzo and Nicaro. I don’t believe too many people would miss the wig shop.
While we’re at it, can we also put a cafe on Georgia Ave? I’m thinking that we could put it where the pawn shop is on Mayor’s Promenade and Georgia Ave. Outdoor seating could be placed on Mayor’s Promenade to activate the area.
Cakelove and Tiramisu are good bakeries.
How can you praise Woodmoor Pastry Shop without including their famous buttery parkerhouse rolls?
For the big family dinner holidays you have to order ahead if you want more than a dozen –And there are lines out the door the day before Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
I have long said a bakery is needed for DTSS. However, no need to displace valuable, contributing businesses for one – there are plenty of vacant store fronts to fill and new bottom floors of condo/apt buildings to transform into vital retail. Right next to the World Building is the former Georgia Blue – that’d be a nice bakery spot – as would the now vacant eatery space on Colesville next to the business USPS.
CakeLove is NOT a bakery – bakers bake BREADS! They also know how to make more than just one cake batter and icing recipe.
Tiramisu is very nice, but it is basically a pastry cafe and not a full service bakery.
I like that the Woodmoor Bakery is basically unchanged from the old days and that it serves as a reminder of simpler times when there were more mom and pop businesses in Silver Spring. Long live the Woodmoor Bakery!
[...] a solution for my eff-up . . . at 1am no less) First, these rolls are magnificent. I get them from The Woodmoor Pastry Shop in Four Corners. LOVE that place. I ordered 2 doz of the Parkers and 1 doz of the little knots, [...]
Kathy is right; the Georgia Blue place actually WAS a bakery for awhile. The little showroom that Bell Flowers used to have would be perfect. It is too small for a retail store; Pieces demonstrated that. But if Bell could give up some space in the back, it could be a great little bakery. Any chance Woodmoor could open up a southern outpost in either of those spaces?
It is VERY uncool to suggest displacing anyone, business or resident, unless the establishment is doing something disgusting like aiding and abetting drunken violence.
A food establishment is very intense, utility-wise and has many implication for fire protection, water/sewer, trash/recycling and other issues that other businesses do not have. A bakery is especially intensive. And that smell, lovely as it is, has air pollution implications that can be costly to address.
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