If you feel
like time is flying by you, then make a commitment to yourself to do something
at least once each week. Only then will you understanding how many weeks are in
a year, as you’re daunted
by a commitment of something you know you wanted, but you’re too lazy to execute. For years I’ve dreamed of having my own food blog.
Nothing ignites my passion more than having a new experience with some limited
edition food item that I had to drive around town to find. Perhaps it’s the only modern day “hunting and gathering” instinct that a woman working in a cubicle
can experience, but I can tell you it makes me feel excited and rewarded and
that this blog has brought job into my life.
Eating food
I shouldn’t is sinful
and exhilarating. But sitting down at least once a week and writing about it?
That’s a challenge. Admittedly easy at first, I
remember vividly the first few weeks of January when I found myself on multiple
occasions sitting down and finding my fingers easily flowing over the keyboard.
I couldn’t get the words out fast enough about how I
enjoyed or didn’t enjoy
whatever I was reviewing. But January bled into February, which then became
March and my initial enthusiasm waned. Blogger is informative enough to show
the posts broken down by each month and I can tell from my personal experience
that the months where life got in the way, I barely wrote any posts. I don’t even have enough fingers and toes to count
the amount of times that I considered quitting writing this blog or the weeks
that passed without an update. If not for the encouragement of others,
recommendations and a guest blogger, then I would have put this To Do List Item
off for another year. It would have been a failure and after all of the
resources I had dedicated to this, it would have been a failure. Blessed are
the gardeners of the soul.
Throughout
the year of writing this blog, I have learned quite a few things about myself,
as well about the dedication of people who regularly indulge in a hobby.
Because I switch things up quite frequently from this list, I am something of a
jack of many trades, but the master of none. I think I have a much greater appreciation
for people who commit to a sport, or trade, or an art on a lifetime basis. Do
not ask me how people do not get bored of the repetition, because that I cannot
speak to. While this blog enhanced my life with new experiences and small
indulgences, I can honestly say that I wouldn’t be able to keep this going on a weekly basis
indefinitely, try as I might.
Twelve
months and fifty literal blog posts later, I take you to the last planned blog
post of this year. Having fallen head over heels with Dunkin’ Donuts’ Snickerdoodle Croissant Donut, I was particularly excited to try their
new Fudge Croissant Donut. As described by Dunkin’, this pastry is a donut made of flakey layers,
drizzled with chocolate frosting, and pumped full of chocolate fudge filling.
The donut alone has 400 calories, so it’s not for the calorie conscious – that’s for sure,
but if it’s anything
like their last limited edition croissant donut, then calories be damned.
What I did
review as a part of this blog was the original croissant donut, which I wasn’t quite as taken with. With a price tag of
$2.49, when the average donut costs me less than $1,00 – I can’t say I was blown away by the taste to value ratio. Looking at this
donut, I am staring at something that reminds me a lot of the original. Looking
from the top, you can see there are four puncture points in this donut where
filling was inserted, so perhaps that’s exactly why this reminds me of the unfilled version. The glaze
drizzled on top matches that of my favorite donut, the marble frosted, so I am
cautiously optimistic. To note, this donut smells quite good, having the very
particular aroma from a glazed Dunkin’ Donut.
Before
biting into this thing, it’s cut in half to get a cross section view of the filling. You can see at
first glance that even though there are four specific puncture points, the
donut artist was a little more heavy handed at certain intervals here.
The filling is impressively dark, lending itself to the whole “fudge filled” thing. Always being the type of gal who likes to dive in head first, my first bite here is where most of the filling is present. What strikes me first is the taste of the chocolate “fudge” filling, or lack thereof. Rather than being a dark chocolate that I would expect by sight, it’s more of a pudding taste. Another taster of this donut told me that this is the same filling that Dunkin’ uses in their brownie batter donut and I am slightly disappointed. I’ve already eaten this entire thing with my eyes and my eyes told me that this was fudgy dark chocolate. The filling is more on the liquid side and the outside is closer to the flakey dry consistency of a croissant and I am not going insane for it. There’s a certain lack of harmony here and this all doesn’t seem to come together quite right.
The filling is impressively dark, lending itself to the whole “fudge filled” thing. Always being the type of gal who likes to dive in head first, my first bite here is where most of the filling is present. What strikes me first is the taste of the chocolate “fudge” filling, or lack thereof. Rather than being a dark chocolate that I would expect by sight, it’s more of a pudding taste. Another taster of this donut told me that this is the same filling that Dunkin’ uses in their brownie batter donut and I am slightly disappointed. I’ve already eaten this entire thing with my eyes and my eyes told me that this was fudgy dark chocolate. The filling is more on the liquid side and the outside is closer to the flakey dry consistency of a croissant and I am not going insane for it. There’s a certain lack of harmony here and this all doesn’t seem to come together quite right.
Reading
other blogs, the internet went insane for this thing, so “donut” be deterred by my review. The cronut is as good as the first edition,
if that was your thing and this is just a chocolate pudding filled version of
that. Chocoholics will be disappointed, but if you blindfolded them then
perhaps not. It’s not lost
on me that there is the other, much lighter and richer chocolate used in those
chocolate “Kreme” filled donuts, which I think would have gone
over much better here. That frosting is thicker in consistency and deeper in
flavor and this would have blown my lid. With a price tag of $2.49, I wouldn’t buy this again or even pull this out of a
box of a dozen if it was sitting in our work kitchen.
Signing out
until the next chew, whenever that may be. Thanks for letting my words go
through your eyes and into your brain over the past year. It means a lot to me.
Stay delicious.