Island Donuts

Where: 400 A1A Beach Blvs, St Augustin FL
When: 1/14/24    
What: Strawberry Chocolate raised, Key Lime Filled, Boston Creme, Maple Bacon, etc etc
Website: Island Donuts

You all, it has been awhile. I'm sorry! Don't worry though, I've still been eating donuts! I was recently inspired to write up some reviews because I went to two really good donut places recently. So the first one, Island Donuts!

There are two locations for this local donut place and I went to the one in St. Augustine on a Sunday morning. They are open early until 1pm, or sell out. I've realized I like donut places with these types of hours. It's nice that their sell out regularly enough that they have to let people know that it is a possibility of them closing early. You know the donuts are fresh! In fact, but the time I got there around 10am, they had already sold out of various flavors, including their island fritter which is a pineapple fritter instead of the traditional apple fritter. I was not the only one looking for that.

I got 26 random donuts (we had friends coming over, don't worry about me eating too many!). 24 were for later and two in a bag for us to eat right away. However, by the time everyone got to the house I forgot what half the donuts were that I chose! We got out the trusty butter knife and started cutting them in half so multiple people could try different ones. I heard the orange creamsicle was really good. The maple bacon barely had any bacon on it, so maybe the woman misheard me and just gave us a standard maple.

The chocolate strawberry and the key lime were my favorite. So let me tell you about those!

1. Chocolate Strawberry: raised donut with strawberry frosting and a chocolate drizzle. First of all, the strawberry frosting had little red bits of strawberries in it. You know it's going to be good and real when you can see actual evidence of fruit in the frosting! The chocolate was subtle and the perfect complement to the strawberry. The frosting also had a nice skin to it, not too thick like it's old but just enough to make it a finished donut. Amazing, 5/5.

2. Key Lime: this donut was a filled raised donut. The key lime was the filling inside, which a nice vanilla frosting dusted with graham cracker crumbs. I am not normally a vanilla frosting fan at a donut place, but this frosting worked great with the key lime filing. The filling was evenly distributed throughout the donut and while sweet, was not overwhelming. Again, the fruit flavor tasted so authentic and not artificial. Another 5/5.

Hopefully I'll have a review for the pineapple fritter sometime soon!