Happy Thanksgiving!

I have a super short week at school this week and got out a little early today so I figured I'd pick up some pastries from the Spanish bakery a couple blocks from my house. Today I picked out a donut w sprinkles, apple turnover thing and a blueberry muffin.

As you can see I couldn't wait on the donut. I'm not always a huge fan of non perils but the donut is delicious. It's glazed and then sprinkled so no over powering sugary frosting to contend with. The donut itself is moist with the glaze seeping in along some of the edges. 4/5 for the donut. Other pastries will be sampled later :-)

Fall is crazy!

I know fall technically just started, but ever since school started again life in Nebraska has just been insanely busy. My fiancé and I moved into our first place together. We had bed bugs. We had exterminators. We had family come visit. We had a funeral. We had a bridal shower. And soon we have a wedding.

I have been eating donuts for my reviews. I have not been writing reviews. But here is a quick one for today!

Pan Dulce Bakery, Lincoln

Chocolate frosted twist

I've been trying to walk more, especially to school in the mornings if I can get out of my apartment on time. This morning on my walk home I smelle donuts for the second time near this one intersection I go through. So I hunted down the bakery and got a donut. I don't think donuts are their specialty and next time I was to try some bread, but the donut wasn't awful. They had about four varieties, no maple though. The frosting was good but the donut tasted a touch stale. There was a dollop of raspberry jelly in the center, but it fell off on the bakery tissue.

I say 2/5. I'll let you know how the bread is later!

Russ's cinnamon rolls

So, not technically donuts, but they had maple and peanut butter frosting, so close enough. Also, they were on sale 2 for $1 which is a pretty sweet deal for cinnamon rolls!

We heated the maple one up in the microwave, perhaps a little too long so the frosting doesn't look super appetizing, but it was pretty yummy. I was having trouble eating it and working on my computer so my fiancé was nice enough to cut it up for me :-)

I'd say 3/5. Would definitely buy again for $0.50. 

Ambrosia Bakery

What: Jelly Filled

Where: 272 Naugatuck Ave, Milford CT

When: Saturday, July 19th, 2014

While back on the east coast in July I was the runner for two of my favorite coworkers' wedding. They were doing a dessert bar so I went to Costco, Whole Foods, and Ambrosia Bakery to pick stuff  up the morning of the wedding.

1. Costco on a Saturday morning is super busy.

2. Costcos apparently do not believe in labeling aisles.

3. Telling someone not to panic yet while they are waiting for a preorder at Whole Foods is somewhat panic inducing.

4. Count the orders before leaving in case they forgot a box of six dozen Cannolis.

But, silver lining, I got one of the best jelly donuts I've ever had. Like Frangelli's fresh-filled good.

I couldn't even tell you what flavor the jelly was, maybe some sort of blackberry? Delicious. The dough was awesome too, not too sweet to balance out the jelly. 5/5. Would definitely go back and try out some other flavors.

Olympic donuts

What: Chocolate frosted cake donut

Where: Milford, CT (First Connecticut review!!)

When: Friday, July 18th 2014

The 2nd wedding of my July wedding jaunt in the northeast was in Connecticut and I was luckily able to get a ride to and from it with my sister and brother in law. After normal NYC traffic and, annoyingly, normal Connecticut traffic we got to town around lunchtime. After some cheap sandwiches my sister found a donut place to check out on their way to dropping me off.

I had a chocolate frosted cake donut that had some decent frosting but was kind of dry. My sister had a chocolate cake donut that ended up having hints of cherry in it and my brother in law had a chocolate frosted cake donut like me, but his had coconut. The donuts where probably all about a 2/5.

The place was pretty cute with a large, U-shaped counter and a heavy focus on coffee products as we'll, but no one tried any of those.

The second CT review will be for a far yummier donut later this week. /teaser

I feel like I was just here

I mean Boston. This morning (6am!) I'm on my way out of Boston again. Got here Thursday for a wedding (bridesmaid, pink dress) and it's been a little crazy. The rehearsal was Thursday so as soon as I got in, it was wedding time! I stopped in the bus station for some fuel though, Honey Dew donuts. I has tried honey dew YEARS ago when I first came up here for college and hadn't been impressed but that was obviously predonut blog. So I got a breakfast sandwich and three donuts to take for the ride. I didn't eat any of them. Busy two days. So now I'm back at South Station and trying it again. But it's too early to eat said donut. So review to come!

Randy's Donuts!

What: Raised chocolate iced and blueberry cake (and bonus donuts later)

Where: Pump and Pantry, West O, Lincoln
When: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 and Thursday, June 19th, 2014

This is I think my 3rd and 4th time trying to go to Randy's. They're one of those bakeries only open till 10am, or when the sell out, and not on Sundays. Plus they are located in kind of an out of the way strip mall that doesn't have much else in it. But my fiance pointed out that for them to still be around and in business and selling out, they must have really good donuts.

Wednesday morning he suggested we try going because I had to be on the north side of town by 11, so he figured we could go before my meeting and his work day. We got there at 9:55. We aren't very good with giving donut places time. Sadly, they were already sold out for the day, but they did have a sign in the window saying that you could get their donuts at a couple of the gas stations in the area, including one right down the street. Off to Pump and Pantry.

Their case was about a quarter full, no maple left but I did see some maple frosting residue so I knew it was a possibility! We got a raised donut with chocolate frosting and a blueberry cake donut. The chocolate frosting was amazing and the raised donut was super airy. In fact, when we went to cut them apart to share, the raised donut was almost flattened by the butter knife.

The blueberry cake was good, but I'm still not a huge fan of blueberry cake. I'd give the chocolate one a 4/5 and the blueberry a 2.5/5. We split them with a Burger King sausage egg and cheese sandwich, which are still quite delicious if not getting more expensive. $2.99! When did fast food get so expensive? Probably in the time I wasn't really buying any.

Then Thursday morning, we got up REALLY early. My cousin is currently running part of the MS Run the US Relay and she will be basically running a marathon a day for a week. Today was her first day and she started in Lincoln at 5:30. And I wanted to be there. But we kind of missed it. We got to where I thought she was starting a minute after she was supposed to start, but we didn't see anyone. So we drove around for awhile trying to find her and eventually did around 6:15 or so. She was slightly lost as well, but had just called some of her support people and found her path again (the path she was taking through downtown and north Lincoln was kind of crazy, from street to bike path back to street, etc.). Anyways, after seeing her I told my fiance that for being such a sport about getting up so early, I would take him to breakfast. Or we could go back to sleep. He suggested Randy's Donuts! And about 2 seconds later was just like, I don't have my wallet, do you have cash. No, I gave you my cash yesterday. And the hunt began. We came up with about $2.35 in change between my purse and his car floor. That bought us three donuts! 

I was so excited to finally be inside Randy's since I had been trying for so long. Almost a year! The inside has a couple of tables and is decorated in red and black. There were two bakery display cases, but only one had donuts in it. I wonder if they were almost sold out already! We got a selection of cake donuts, including my maple frosted. And they were delicious! Lots of frosting and really moist cake donuts. I'd give the maple a 5/5 (might be my new favorite), the chocolate a 4.5/5 and the vanilla (my first every vanilla frosted donut) a 4/5. I highly recommend this place. Just get there early!