Some of our favorite products result from the fusion of two or more distinct culinary concepts. Our latest mashup benefits from two beloved French traditions...

Perhaps you’ve enjoyed palmiers? The traditional version involves puff pastry that is rolled flat, coated with sugar, then rolled back up from both sides and cut on the bias to produce cookie-like pastries resembling palm tree leaves (or hearts—depending on your POV). Once baked, palmiers are flaky, sweet treats.

Working with a French producer, our developers started with this palmier concept, then added another French tradition: Onion Confit. For our Swirls, onions are cooked low & slow with balsamic vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. This caramelized, almost jam-like mixture is rolled into a puff pastry, along with some Emmental cheese. Once cut and baked, the resulting mini crackers have that palmier texture, with the alluring flavor & aroma of savory-sweet onions—plus a hint of Swiss... If French onion soup were a flaky pastry, it would aspire to be Trader Joe’s Onion Confit Swirls!