If you like fancy schmancy doughnuts, make your way over to Glory Hole Doughnuts. The cute doughnut shop just opened up this past weekend in Parkdale. I popped in on the first day and they had only two flavours left (it was close to the end of the day): banana cream pie and lemon meringue. I opted for the banana cream pie ($4.20). It’s the kind of doughnut you need to be alone to eat — it’s ginormous so it’s a bit messy — alas, the only seating is at the front window where everyone on the streetcar can watch as you get whipped cream on your nose as you bite into the oversized sweets.
The doughnut was good — you’d have to be a fan of whipped cream, for sure, except it was much too large — the one doughnut easily could’ve been three servings for me. It’s a pretty darn decadent doughnut — I don’t tend to feel guilty about treats I have, but even this made me feel a bit bad (I was relieved I’d run that morning and had a long training run the next day!). Also, there was no saving any leftovers (or taking one of the lemon meringue to go) as single doughnuts are served in an open cardboard boat (no way for me to trek by foot with that!).
I’ll just have to stroll on back to try other flavours then…
Glory Hole Doughnuts, 1596 Queen St. W., Toronto, 416-420-5169
August 29, 2012
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Gotta get the doughnuts…
Those doughnuts above? Perhaps the best I’ve ever had.
Get these Bakelab doughnuts yourself over at the chic little boutique Lost & Found (1255 Dundas St. W.).
(To be honest, I’m thankful it’s somewhat out of the way for me or else I’d be there every weekend.)
Carol (the baker behind Bakelab) bakes up cookies ($2 each) for the shop (such as chocolate ginger sandwich with white chocolate vanilla ginger ganache filling and cocoa nib daquois with homemade nutella (psst, these ones gluten and dairy free) during the week, and on weekends, it’s doughnut time.
Using as many local and organic ingredients as possible, and homemade extracts if possible, and organic canola and coconut oil, Carol bakes up small batches of insanely yummy doughnuts ($3 each) in flavours that have included:
- Lemon meringue (lemon curd-filled yeast doughnut topped with Italian meringue)
- Chocolate peanut butter (peanut butter-filled yeast doughnut with chocolate glaze)
- Espresso cream-filled yeast doughnut with chocolate glaze
- Creme bruleed espresso cream-filled raised doughnut: (brulee the sugared top of the doughnut until it’s crispy and caramelized)
- Chai cake doughnut with vanilla chai icing
- Red velvet cake doughnuts topped with cream cheese icing and white chocolate
Go get ‘em. Totally worth the sugar high.
(And just so you know, I’m writing this post at the tail end of a juice cleanse, which means I really just want to dive into my computer screen to devour the doughnuts in the picture. Particularly selfless of me to post this is my hazy, hungry state, if I may say so myself.)
November 28, 2011
