Don't think about it, enjoy it (Morrisons In Store Raspberry Donuts.)

Member Name: abbadabbado

Product:	Morrisons In Store Raspberry Donuts.
Date:	29/04/09 (118 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: taste yummy

Disadvantages: bad bad bad for you

I can be a sucker for anything that resembles cake. Usually I save these indulgences for when I get together with friends and we have a coffee with something sweet.
Monday saw one of these occasions, and being the naughty person that I am, I popped into Morrison's on the way to see the girls and bought some doughnuts along with some other cakes.

When it comes to doughnuts, I only really like them filled with raspberry jam. I wouldn't call myself a traditional person, but I look at a doughnut with custard or apple in them and they just don't seem right.
You can buy doughnuts in Morrison's in a bag of two for 29p or a pack of five for 59p. These are usually on offer when you buy a couple of packets as well. For a cheaper cake treat, you can't go wrong with buying doughnuts.

Packaged in a cardboard base with thin plastic wrapping over the top, you do have to watch that the outer plastic layer isn't ripped in the corners. If it is your doughnuts will go stale very quickly, and may even be a bit hard when you buy them so watch out for it.
The plus side to this packaging is that you can see the product you are buying before you buy it. I like this because you can see if the batch of doughnuts has been under or over cooked, and can choose the nicest looking packet before you part with money.

It's always recommended that you have a plate with a doughnut as if you're anything like me you'll bite into the wrong side and the jam will appear everywhere but your mouth. It has become a well honed skill to try and determine where the jam was inserted into the doughnut.
Now I'm sure everyone reading this has eaten a doughnut at one time in your life. Morrison's raspberry filled jam ones aren't anything like the small ones you can buy from the mobile vans that taste as though they have just come out of a deep fat fryer with fat dripping from them. They do however taste slightly greasy, although this gives me the impression that they are vaguely fresh and not previously frozen like a lot of cakes can be these days.

The doughnuts are a generous size and you will be hard pushed to eat one of these without licking your lips. One of the best bits about these doughnuts is the thin icing sugar coating around the dough. Some doughnuts you can buy are covered in thick granules of sugar, but these are covered in a very fine sugar, and there always appears to be lots of it. Very bad for your teeth but very nice to indulge.
I always find the dough from the doughnut fairly light, but occasionally you will find a slightly stodgy doughnut in the pack. The poor doughnut must have been left a bit long in the cooking process, but usually I have nothing to complain about in the texture.
The taste is fairly sweet when you mix the jam and the sugar together with the dough. If you are unlucky enough to get a doughnut with a sparse amount of jam then your experience could be quite a dry one, and leaving the need to eat another doughnut just to get the proper taste!

When I buy doughnuts I never look at the nutritional values on the pack, nor will I look at them for the purpose of this review. There is nothing good in a doughnut except the pleasure you get from eating it, so if you're going to buy them, enjoy them and don't worry about the fat content.
A pack of doughnut will stay fresh for a couple of days if not eaten on the day of purchase, but they'll rarely last that long so enjoy them.

Summary: an indulgent snack