Happy Happy Friday y’all!!! Oh my is it a happy Friday too. Someone recently asked me the question, ‘what is your ride or die cheat food?’ Even though I can get in certain moods for certain foods on my cheat days, doughnuts will always be the treat I will go out of my way to get. I mean, what’s not to love? Delicious yeasty dough (unless cake obvi) fried and covered in sugar?…drooooll. So anyways back to it being a happy Friday, I will be reviewing a few new-ish doughnuts, one from a very well known establishment and one from a local one, because let’s be real, local is always better—food-wise in my opinion.
First up, we have a couple of doughnuts from Dunkin Donuts, and to be honest they may have already taken them off of the menu because they gotta keep things fresh, but anyways.
Here we have the Chocolate Pretzel Cake Donut…
noms…
So, first off I will admit that I ignored this doughnut for a month or two because I am not a fan of cake doughnuts, solely for the fact that every time I’ve had one they have been dry. Well, Dunkin, y’all did me good, because this doughnut was incredible. Moist chocolate cake, with a slight all over glaze, and then topped off with caramel and salty pretzel pieces. No joke, my mouth is watering even looking at this thing. I have never been so wrong about a doughnut before, the mixture of the sweet and salty was perfection and this was quality tasting chocolate cake, super noms. This doughnut gets a solid 10 out of 10.
Here we have the Dunkin Donut cake batter filled doughnut…
mmm, look at that filling and sprinkles…
So this cake batter filled doughnut pleasantly surprised me, I was fully expecting the middle to taste just like every other thick custardy filling in your standard doughnut, but it totally didn’t. The filling really tasted like cake batter and that mixed with the chocolate topping & sprinkles made this taste especially birthday cake like. Overall, this is a rich & decadent doughnut. This one gets a solid 7 out of 10.
Now we’re going to go local and yes I did save the best for last…I had heard for forever that I needed to run over to Paradise Donuts because their doughnuts are just so incredible and fresh, and the only reason I didn’t head over earlier is totally me just being lazy. I’m not lazy, but looking like a swamp monster in stretchy pants on my cheat day is usually what’s happening in my house, and if it’s not being delivered or cooked by me then I’m not getting it. This time I planned ahead and showed up when they opened and before I went into full on land monster mode.
I had to show the box because I just thought it was so cute…
like Heaven in a box…
drooling…
Here we have the most wonderful mix of flavors that include your basic vanilla glazed, Fruity Pebbles, Salted Caramel, Blueberry Cake, Old Fashioned Marble Sour Cream, Raspberry filled and Maple Bacon. Holy crap y’all, these were absolutely incredible! Like, all of them were incredible. What’s extra cool is that when I went to the store, after telling the very nice man who worked there that I had never been there before gave me one to try for free. He handed me the Marble Old Fashioned which I would never have chosen because it’s a cake doughnut, but I am reformed solely from this doughnut. I loved it so much I bought some too because it was sooo soft and moist. Oh, I also got an Apple Fritter which was roughly the size of my head, and I gobbled it up before even thinking of taking a picture, oops…Anyways, definitely go and check out a local doughnut shop near you, and if you’re in the Atlanta area, I highly recommend you go check out Paradise Donuts. My whole experience, from the insanely nice people who work there to the quality doughnuts they’re creating gives this place a solid 10 out of 10 and if I wouldn’t sound like a complete dork a 20 out of 10 😀
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderfully doughnut filled weekend!!!