I can probably count on two hands how many times I've gone out and bought a donut myself in the last calendar year. It's not because I'm a health buff or anything, far from it, it's just that the donuts at Timmy's are so bad and all the fancy donut places are all downtown.
After driving past this place many times, one lazy Sunday afternoon I've decided to pay Donut Counter a visit. Interior wise it's got a classic look. It's got the feel of a neighbourhood gathering place for the elders and the members of community.
I got to the counter and looked at the wide selection of donuts they offer. I was counting on the young gentleman at the cash to tell me which donuts were the most popular and he wasn't able to really pinpoint specific ones and really gave me a broad brush type of answer.
I opted for a safe choice, chocolate glazed and a slightly more adventurous choice, a chocolate cruller (I've actually never heard of a chocolate cruller before), even though the look of it did not resemble a cruller. I counted my change handed them over to the gentleman and off I went.
The chocolate glazed was quite enjoyable. It's a light bready style of donut and not the melt in your mouth type offered at Krispy Kreme. It's clear that the donut was deep fried with fresh oil and it was not overly sweet. After eating it , you will get the false impression that you did not eat something that was truly 'evil'.
The chocolate cruller on the other hand was quite sweet. As with a lot of donut places you can hardly taste chocolate flavour (which I can live with at a non-fancy donut place). Colour wise it resembled Count Dracula cereal. After eating it I still didn't get why it's called a cruller since the texture resembled more or less apple fritters. The shape that it was made in may also present some issues with the donut. The shape of it resembled a flat volcano. In the very heart of the donut the texture either felt as if it was slightly under cooked or some of the ingredients were not totally mixed in evenly. It wasn't bad, but it certainly had some flaws.
I'm not about to go as far to say that I should count my blessings or my lucky stars that I had dropped by this place. But you can count on me to come back to try other donut varieties if #1 I have a donut cravings, or #2 I'm in the area. So by the end of this review, who actually tried to count how many times I actually used a word that had count in it? read more