Poppy Scrolls brings freshly baked sweet and savoury treats to Southport
There’s something particularly comforting about a warm cinnamon scroll. The soft, pillowy dough, the fragrant swirl of cinnamon and that first gloriously sticky bite. It’s a simple pleasure, but as anyone who has attempted to make them from scratch will tell you, getting them just right is something of an art form. Thankfully, pastry chef Mishel Botor has done the hard yards, and now she’s bringing her freshly baked creations to Southport with the opening of Poppy Scrolls.
If your sweet tooth has been calling the shots lately, you’re in luck. The new Southport bakery is serving up an assortment of sweet and savoury scrolls, alongside some seriously tempting specialty sips.
The brainchild of pastry chef Mishel Botor, Poppy Scrolls began as a modest market stall fuelled by a love of baking and a hunch that Gold Coasters might share her enthusiasm for cinnamon scrolls. Having previously worked across Village Roadshow’s theme parks, including Movie World, Sea World and Paradise Country, Mishel decided to put her pastry skills to the test.
Turns out, Gold Coasters are very enthusiastic about scrolls.
What was intended as a little side hustle quickly gathered momentum, with appearances at local markets leading to a permanent spot at HOTA Markets just a month after they started trading there. The response was enough for Mishel to hang up her theme-park apron and turn her attention to Poppy Scrolls full time. As demand grew, so too did the calls from customers wanting to get their scroll fix beyond the weekly markets.
Enter Poppy Scrolls’ first bricks-and-mortar home in Southport.
There are eight scrolls on the menu, and while purists can take comfort in the classic cinna creme with its signature frosting and cinnamon-dusted finish, those with a more adventurous sweet tooth are in for a treat. The Biscoff scroll comes loaded with spread, biscuit and frosting, while the apple crumble combines fresh apple compote with a buttery, house-made crumble. The blueberry lemon curd brings together blueberry compote, tangy lemon curd and a generous helping of frosting for a sweet-meets-tart situation.
And before you go thinking scrolls are strictly a sweet affair, there’s the honey pepperoni pizza scroll. One of the bakery’s bestsellers, the savoury sensation brings together pizza sauce, three cheeses, pepperoni and honey. There’s also a spinach-and-cheese number featuring cream cheese and a three-cheese blend for those who prefer their pastries without the sugar rush.
Subscribe for updatesAccording to the team, the secret to a seriously good scroll isn’t some closely guarded ingredient or elaborate recipe. It’s patience. Giving the dough enough time to rise is what creates that beautifully light, fluffy texture, rather than something dense and doughy. Every batch is baked fresh in the early hours and served warm, just as a good scroll should be.
Of course, you’ll need something to wash it all down, and Poppy Scrolls isn’t content with simply pouring your standard flat white. Alongside organic coffee from Seven Miles, the drinks menu ventures into more adventurous territory with a line-up of specialty coffees and matchas that are almost as tempting as the baked goods.
There’s a churro matcha with house-made caramel sauce, churro milk, cinnamon and churro cold foam, a panna matcha featuring panna cotta, and a jasmine einspanner matcha finished with a cloud of cream. Coffee lovers can get around the pistachio cold brew topped with pistachio cold foam, a maple sea salt latte or the Poppy spiced orange, which combines double ristretto with orange cream and fresh zest.
Poppy Scrolls is now open. Head to The Directory for opening times.
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