CRACK COCAINE IN DOUGHNUT FORM! (Krispy Kreme)

Member Name: stuleg

Product:	Krispy Kreme
Date:	08/04/09 (287 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Addictive, Melt in the mouth, Addicitive, tasty, Addictive

Disadvantages: Adicitive, Expensive, Addicitive, Calorific nightmare

Just when you thought life held no more surprises, that you had tasted the finest wines, travelled the finest isles and ingested the finest literary and auditory treats, something unexpected comes along and gives your senses a proverbial goosing. I am talking about a humble doughnut - albeit a doughnut that stands head and shoulders above its peers, the Krispy Kreme doughnut. To call one of the soft, sugar coated joys a mere doughnut is to do it a disservice; yes there are other, cheaper alternatives; but sometimes we all deserve to step aside from our busy lives and treat ourselves to something that little bit special. And so it was, following a particularly taxing day at work I decided to treat myself to something nice on the culinary front. It could well have been a decent bottle of wine or some good quality chocolate, but the garishly red and green Krispy Kreme cabinet in my local Tesco caught my eye, and with hardly a backwards glance I decided on a mixed box of twelve of the sugar glazed delights. I dogmatically told myself I was actually getting a good deal at £8.95 as I made my selection - You see, twelve doughnuts at their individual prices would cost an eye watering £16.20; so I pushed ahead with the gay abandon of a bargain hunter locked onto his prey as I grabbed and shoved assorted coloured, textured and filled doughnuts into my box.

The fabled taste test

A short drive home and with a gallon of good, fresh coffee in hand I set about the box of doughnuts with relish. On lifting the lid my sense of smell was awakened as I inhale deeply to appreciate the sweet, cake like aroma. The first doughnut unlucky enough to succumb to my greedy gasp is the imaginatively named chocolate iced cream filled; a doughnut not dissimilar in looks to a large profiterole. What strikes me as the doomed morsel is raised to my salivating maw is the doughnut is not at all greasy in feel, leaving no fatty residue on my fingers. Firm yet moist, the doughnut yields to my bite and accosts my mouth with a myriad of flavours. The sweet chocolate icing makes way to a deeper, more subtle doughnut type taste before the cream filling dissolves in the heat of my mouth to offer a rich, vanilla-esque taste which complements the others perfectly without making the experience sickly. I make short work of this first doughnut, four of my big mouthfuls despatching the cake with ease. A swig of rapidly cooling coffee to cleanse the palette and I elect for the good old original glazed ring doughnut. Slightly sticky to the touch due to the plentiful covering of sugar glaze it practically dissolves as I bite; chewing released a rush of sugar and cakie-ness in equal measure - neither flavour overpowering the other, this truly is melt in the mouth confectionery at its best.

Two doughnuts in and I'm starting to feel the pace, nevertheless with a fresh mug of coffee I renew my assault on the box, all in the name of research. Next on my hit list is the powdered with strawberry filling, and rather than bite I elect to disassemble the sweet morsel in order to make the experience last. Teasing the soft, light dough apart reveals the deep shiny red jam in plentiful proportions. Nothing else for it but to taste this inner sweetness, I flick my tongue wantonly into the sweet, sticky jam. Little surprise that the taste delivered is fruitful and flavoursome, not like the cheap, sickly sweet, red amalgam in lesser jam doughnuts. This doughnut is probably as close as you can get to the archetypal mass produced ones eaten in their millions every day, and yet the similarity is fleeting. To compare this Krispy Kreme delight to the greasy, misshapen gobs of fried, sugar drowned abominations of the cake world is rather like comparing an Aston Martin or Rolls Royce to a wheelbarrow! This is the numero uno in jam filled doughnuts. Back to the taste test, for my fourth doughnut I decide on the Caramel Dreamcake - not dissimilar in appearance to the chocolate filled, save for a generous sprinkling of white and caramel chocolate curls. On biting this doughnut the class really rouses the taste buds. A myriad of flavours jostle as the icing and chocolate curls melt and mix with the main body of the doughnut, and then a squirt of sweet, caramel filling invades the mouth and cloaks the other flavours to complete the eating sensation. Sumptuous, tasty and very very rich.

And that - dear reader - is where I bow out of my doughnut tasting session. Had I continued and eaten the remaining custard filled, sprinkle topped or sugar drenched delights I have little doubt I would have enjoyed them, as would my dentist as she extracted a large wad of money from my wallet along with the teeth that didn't survive the experience. As it is, I took the remaining doughnuts to my Parents house to allow them to enjoy them in a leisurely way. I know my limits, and that seems to be four Krispy Kreme doughnuts in one sitting.

So are these sugary, chocolate topped doughnuts good for me?

Nutritiously speaking your average Krispy Kreme doughnut is not going to fill you with vitamins or minerals; and the calorie count would make a bar of chocolate blush - ranging from 300 to 400 per doughnut. Fat wise it doesn't get any better either, with 23 of the doughnuts 87 grams made up by fat, albeit vegetable fat. Some rudimentary maths on my part shows my glorious dozen top 3,500 calories - enough to clog the arteries of a small elephant, let alone a young chap like myself. One plus point amongst these scarily large numbers is the fact that they are suitable for vegetarians.

Conclusion

So, to wrap this review up before I collapse into a sugar induced coma, these doughnuts are indeed worthy of their billing as the kings of the confectionery world. Without doubt the best value is to buy a dozen filled doughnuts for under £9 rather than £1.35 each. And the ring doughnuts (although still absolutely delicious) are still just plain ring doughnuts beneath that crisp, sugar coating, and as such I'm not sure if they are worth the premium. For me, rich and sumptuous fillings are what make the Krispy Kreme experience such a special experience, four stars out of five.

http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/Doughnuts

Summary: Addicitve