McCarthy Mercantile & Cafe

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Laminated Pastries

Buttery, flaky, and baked fresh every morning. Filled with wild Alaska ingredients and finished with house-made glazes.

Croissant of the Day

Ask Your Barista · Changes Daily

A butter croissant baked fresh each morning and finished a different way every day — almond frangipane and toasted almonds, wild blueberry and cream cheese, chocolate, ham and cheddar, or simply plain with a fireweed honey glaze. Always flaky, always buttery, always worth asking about.

✦ McCarthy TwistOut here the menu follows what's available and what we feel like making. Today's croissant is always a good reason to start a conversation with your barista.

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The Root Glacier Berry & Cream Cheese Turnover

Rotating Wild Berry · Cream Cheese Filling · Lemon · Honey Glaze

Premium butter puff pastry folded over a layer of sweetened cream cheese and a bubbling wild berry compote — blueberry, raspberry, or whatever berry we're working with today — with bright lemon zest, finished with a honey glaze that crackles when it sets. The cream cheese melts into the berries during baking. Jammy, tangy, and Messy in the best possible way.

✦ McCarthy TwistThe cream cheese layer is the secret — it balances the tartness of wild berries and adds a richness that makes this pastry unforgettable. Ask your barista what berry is in today's turnover.

$6.50

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Scones

Buttermilk-rich, tall-risen, and baked fresh daily. One savory, one sweet — both built for the outdoors.

The Basecamp Scone

Thick-Cut Bacon · Sharp Cheddar · Cracked Black Pepper · Smoked Salt

A towering savory buttermilk scone loaded with thick-cut crispy bacon, sharp white cheddar throughout, and plenty of cracked black pepper in the dough. Finished with more cheddar melted on top and a pinch of smoked sea salt. Substantial, savory, and completely satisfying. This is breakfast.

✦ McCarthy TwistBuilt for the backcountry. This scone has enough heft to carry you through a morning on the Root Glacier trail. The smoked sea salt on top echoes the campfire smoke that drifts through McCarthy on cool mornings.

$6.50

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The McCarthy Scone of the Day

Ask Your Barista · Changes Daily

A generously sized buttermilk scone made fresh each morning — always sweet, always different. Could be currant and caraway, lemon and poppy, cinnamon sugar, or something entirely off-script. Always tall, always buttery, always worth asking about.

✦ McCarthy TwistOut here, you work with what you have and you make it good. The scone of the day is a reflection of that — whatever's freshest, made properly, and ready before the trail calls.

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Muffins & Buns

Big, unapologetic, and absolutely worth it. Not polite pastries.

Muffin of the Day

Changes Daily · Ask Your Barista

A generously sized muffin baked fresh each morning — the flavor changes daily depending on what we're working with. Could be blueberry, lemon poppy, banana chocolate chip, carrot coconut, or something off-script entirely. Always large, always worth asking about.

✦ McCarthy TwistOut here you work with what you have and you make it good. The muffin of the day is exactly that — whatever's freshest, made properly. A good reason to arrive early before they're gone.

$5.50

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The McCarthy Road Cinnamon Roll Focaccia

Butter Focaccia · Brown Sugar & Cardamom Swirl · Fireweed Honey Glaze

A pillowy, melted butter-rich focaccia dough rolled with a brown sugar and cardamom filling, sliced into thick pull-apart pieces, and baked until the edges caramelize and the top blisters golden. Glazed hot from the oven with fireweed honey. Chewy, sticky, deeply fragrant — half focaccia, half cinnamon roll, entirely its own thing. Served in a slab, pull-apart style — best enjoyed warmed at home.

✦ McCarthy TwistMelted butter in the focaccia dough gives this a richness and depth that a standard cinnamon bun can't match — that buttery tenderness underneath the sweet cardamom swirl is unexpected and completely irresistible. Named for the road because it's rough around the edges and gloriously worth it.

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Brioche

Enriched Dough · Butter · Egg · Egg Wash

Soft, pillowy, and deeply enriched with butter and egg. A glossy shell gives way to a feather-soft crumb inside. Finished with a brush of egg wash. Effortlessly good alongside any coffee on the menu.

✦ McCarthy TwistYou won't find fresh brioche at the end of most roads. We make them because some things are worth doing well regardless of where you are — and a warm brioche bun with a strong coffee at the edge of Wrangell-St. Elias is one of life's genuinely good moments.

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Bars & Brownies

Dense. Dark. Dangerous. Bars that hike with you and brownies that make you sit back down.

Midnight Brownie

Triple Dark Chocolate · Fudge Core · Dark Ganache · Smoked Sea Salt

A devastatingly dark, fudgy brownie made with three forms of dark chocolate — bittersweet chips folded through the batter, Dutch cocoa powder, and a straight dark chocolate melt. A crackling fudge center, topped with a poured dark chocolate ganache that sets to a glossy, intense finish and finished with smoked sea salt. Not for the timid. Not shareable.

✦ McCarthy TwistThe ganache top takes this brownie from great to unreasonable — two layers of dark chocolate, one baked in and one poured on. The smoked sea salt cuts through and ties the whole thing to the landscape outside your window. Dark, elemental, irreducible.

$5.50

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Mount Blackburn Pecan Bars

Buttery Shortbread · Fireweed Honey Pecan Filling

A thick, classic buttery shortbread base topped with a gooey, amber-set pecan filling made with wild Alaskan honey. Toasty, nutty, floral, and deeply satisfying — firm on top, molten beneath. Cut thick and worth every bite.

✦ McCarthy TwistNamed for Mount Blackburn — the highest peak in the Wrangells at 16,390 ft. This bar is built with the same ambition: the tallest shortbread base, the most generous pecan filling, wild Alaskan honey where corn syrup would be the easy choice. High standards. Worth the climb.

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Jammy Bars

Strawberry Jam · Oat Crumble Crust · Brown Butter

A thick brown butter oat crumble base pressed into a pan, spread generously with bright strawberry jam, and finished with a crumbly oat topping that bakes golden and crisp. The jam bubbles up through the crust at the edges and sets jammy and bright in the center. Tart, sweet, buttery, and deeply satisfying — the kind of bar that disappears before you can cut it properly.

✦ McCarthy TwistSimple, honest, and made the right way — a buttery oat crust, good jam, and patience. Out here we don't overcomplicate what's already perfect.

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Erie Lake Brown Butter Espresso Banana Bread

Brown Butter · Espresso · Dark Chocolate Chip · Ripe Banana · Dark Chocolate Ganache Drizzle

A thick slice of deeply flavored banana bread — made with brown butter for nuttiness, a shot of espresso that amplifies the chocolate, overripe bananas for sweetness and moisture, and dark chocolate chips folded throughout. Dense, moist, and complex. A cracked, caramelized top crust gives way to a soft, fudgy interior, finished with a dark chocolate ganache drizzle. Not a polite banana bread. An event.

✦ McCarthy TwistNamed for Erie Lake — the quiet, deep turquoise alpine lake above Kennicott that stops hikers in their tracks. This banana bread has the same quality: understated on the outside, stunning within. The espresso shot doesn't make it taste like coffee — it makes everything else taste more like itself.

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Daily Revolving Cake by the Slice

Rotating selections — cut to order, one generous slice at a time. Ask your barista what's on today. Here's what you might find in the case.

Wrangell Sunset Pink Lemonade Bundt

Lemon · Raspberry · Vanilla Cream Cheese Drizzle

A pink lemonade bundt cake bright with fresh lemon and raspberry, with a vanilla cream cheese drizzle that pools in the ridges. Tangy, stunning, and pretty enough to photograph — but you won't wait.

✦ McCarthy TwistNamed for the Wrangell sunsets that turn the sky every shade of pink above the valley. The colour comes entirely from the raspberries in the batter — nothing artificial.

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The Kennicott German Chocolate Bundt

White Chocolate Bundt · Coconut Pecan Caramel · Dark Chocolate Drizzle

A rich white chocolate bundt topped with a gooey coconut and toasted pecan caramel sauce that drapes over the ridges, finished with a dark chocolate drizzle. Indulgent, complex, and completely irresistible.

✦ McCarthy TwistNamed for the Kennicott mine — serious, layered, and more impressive than it has any right to be given where you're standing. The coconut pecan caramel is made in-house.

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McCarthy Carrot Cake

Carrot · Pineapple · Coconut · Walnut · Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

A deeply moist carrot cake layered with crushed pineapple, toasted coconut, and walnuts — warmly spiced with cinnamon and cardamom. Frosted generously with brown butter cream cheese frosting that adds a toasty, nutty depth. The cake version of our beloved morning muffin, only better.

✦ McCarthy TwistThe brown butter cream cheese frosting is what makes this cake unreasonable. That nutty, caramelized depth takes a great carrot cake somewhere completely unexpected.

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Wild Raspberry Streusel Coffee Cake

Wild Raspberry · Brown Sugar Streusel · Lemon Glaze

A tender, buttery coffee cake packed with wild raspberries and topped with a thick brown sugar and cinnamon streusel that bakes into a crackly, golden crust. Finished with a lemon glaze drizzle. Tart, sweet, and best eaten warm with a flat white alongside.

✦ McCarthy TwistWild raspberries are intensely flavored and deeply tart — they cut right through the sweetness of the streusel and make every bite interesting. The kind of cake that disappears before lunch.

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Flourless Chocolate Almond Cake

Dark Chocolate · Almond · Smoked Sea Salt · Ganache

A dense, fudgy flourless cake made with dark chocolate and almond flour — naturally gluten-free, intensely rich, with a texture between truffle and brownie. Topped with a poured dark chocolate ganache and finished with smoked sea salt. Served at room temperature with a small pour of heavy cream.

✦ McCarthy TwistNo flour, no compromise. The smoked salt on top ties this cake to the landscape outside — dark, elemental, and completely serious. A cake for people who mean it.

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Basque Cheesecake

Cream Cheese · Heavy Cream · Caramelized Top

A Basque-style burnt cheesecake — baked hot and fast so the top caramelizes to a deep, dramatic brown while the center stays impossibly creamy and custardy. No crust, no fuss. Rich, silky, and slightly smoky from the caramelized top. One of the most quietly extraordinary things we make.

✦ McCarthy TwistA cheesecake that looks burnt and tastes extraordinary — very on-brand for a place most people think is in the middle of nowhere but turns out to be one of the most spectacular spots on earth.

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Large format, deeply flavored, dangerous in proximity to a good latte. Three cookies, each one worth the detour.

The Campfire Cookie of the Week

Rotating Chocolate Chip Build · Ask Your Barista

A different chocolate chip cookie every week — same great dough, a different build. Always large, always fresh, always a reason to come back. Ask your barista what's on this week.

✦ McCarthy TwistOut here the supply run decides a lot of things — and that makes every week's cookie a little different and a little special. No two weeks are exactly the same, which is exactly how we like it.

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The Prospector's Oatmeal Raisin

Rolled Oats · Plump Raisins · Cinnamon · Brown Butter · Flaked Salt

A thick, chewy bakery-sized oatmeal raisin cookie made with brown butter, rolled oats, plump raisins soaked until soft, warm cinnamon, and a generous pinch of flaked salt on top. Crisp at the edges, chewy and dense in the center. The kind of cookie that gets underestimated every single time and surprises every single person who tries it.

✦ McCarthy TwistNamed for the prospectors who worked these valleys on nothing but oats, dried fruit, and determination. This cookie is made the same way they worked — honest ingredients, no shortcuts, and exactly as good as it needs to be.

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