Not the freshest fresh cream doughnuts! (Tesco Dairy Cream Doughnuts)

Member Name: i_am_joy

Product:	Tesco Dairy Cream Doughnuts
Date:	13/05/09 (52 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: ----------

Disadvantages: Boring and tasteless, too much synthetic cream

My sister popped in today for a cup of tea and she brought with her some fresh cream doughnuts from Tesco, they looked fairly tasty (if a little synthetic) and those few brief words sum these doughnuts up perfectly!

The doughnuts come in a pack of two and are long open ones rather than the round doughnuts that have the cream in the middle. From the very first glance I can see there is too much cream and I knew I'd have to scrape some of it out, which I did before I ate it which spoiled the appearance somewhat.

The doughnut itself is really stodgy, stodgier even than other doughnuts! It has a very claggy consistency which makes it really chewy, I found the cake to be very sweet and less well seasoned than other supermarket doughnuts. In fact, once you overcome the sweetness there is very little flavour to the doughnut at all and even the addition of the jam and cream doesn't help matters.

For fresh cream this is extremely synthetic in appearance, texture and flavour. It doesn't taste fresh at all and has the same sort of sterilised milk flavour as squirty cream, it seemed to melt horribly against the jam and this made the consistency almost sticky where it touched the doughnut.

My doughnut was, well, sort of OK. Once I'd scraped off the majority of the cream it was, as I said earlier, fairly tasty. But only just. I didn't finish mine and was rather relieved when my sister said she wasn't keen on hers either as it meant I could leave some of mine with a clear conscience without worrying about appearing ungrateful.

It's not a doughnut that you'll go 'eugh' at but I just found it terribly boring and rather tasteless, certainly not worth the 98p price tag!

Summary: Not the best cream doughnut in the world - not even the best cream doughnut in my fridge!