Showing posts with label cronuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cronuts. Show all posts

Thursday, October 10, 2019

[Review] Dum Dums Donutterie London

I am always looking for a sweet treat especially donuts.

At Dum Dum Donutterie, there were donuts and cronuts.

Cronuts are not my thing so it was clearly donuts and the new raspberry and pistachio was definitely a choice for me.
Basically a ring donut filled with coconut buttercream topped with icing and crushed pistachio buts.

Taking a bite, the doughnut was a rather firm one yet the the buttercream was much lighter and runnier than anticipated so the firm donut kept it together well.

It was slightly messy to eat as the filling kept squirting out but it was delicious however I found the icing much sweeter than the filling so the sweetness overpowered the whole thing.

Overall, a cute donutterie and the guy there was lovely.


Dum Dum Donutterie
Unit 31, Box Park
2-4 Bethnal Green Road
Shoreditch
London
E1 6GYTelephone

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Cronuts from Delicatessen Corner

Delicatessen Corner (Tsim Sha Tsui)

To be honest, I was not here for the cronuts. I was after the【Zürcher Geschnetzeltes】.
A Veal or Beef dish cooked with Mushrooms and Cream, served on the side with a fried Potato Roesti.

However, the table outside only had set lunches and dinners so I did not know they had an a la carte menu as well.

Inside the restaurant, there is a delicatessen corner selling sausages, sandwiches, cakes and cheeses.




Since they had cronuts, I decided to try them even though they were invented in the USA and not by the Swiss.

There were four flavours for cronuts:
Chocolate and yoghurt crisp

Cinnamon:

Raspberry crisp:

Pineapple crisp:

I suppose it is not really worth dining there because the cronuts cost $22 takeaway and if you dine there they cost $32 each with a 10% on top.
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Chocolate and yoghurt crispy deli cro-do:


Interestingly, instead of calling them cronuts, they called them cro-do using the first part of the donut word.
The cro-do was pretty disappointing, it was oily, rancid and chewy and the crispy yoghurt pieces on top were dehydrated and chewy just like freeze dried apple pieces.
The cream in the middle was sweet and sickly.
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Price: $4X
Service: crap
Service charge: 10%
Yummy factor: merde!
Noise levels: Noisy
English Menu: Yes
Air Conditioning: Yes
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Cronuts

Swissbeck (Central)
If it were not for the Cronuts I would not have come here~





Currently there are only three places in Hong Kong that sell them: The Mandarin Cake Shop's Kronut for $26, Petite Amanda's cronut for $16, and Swissbeck's cronut for $30 in six flavours.


Invented in May 2013 by chef Dominique Ansel for Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City, cronuts are a croissant-doughnut hybrid.

I just expected the Cronut to taste like a light chewy puff pastry hence I chose the fresh fruit one which is basically filled with cream and diced strawberries.
I devoured my cronut there so there is only one side shot of it.

As this is the only cronut I have ever tried I cannot compare it to the original one in New York or the other ones in HK, but I have read a review on the Mandarin one which seems to have a strong oily aftertaste.

They remind me of yum yum's (twisted donuts) with a icing sugar coating.
On my next visit, I will probably get the Berliner donuts.


They also sell other pastries and cookies too.


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Fresh fruit cronut:



The cronut was basically two halves with cream and strawberry in the middle sandwiched together.
Each half had so many layers just like puff pastry but they were not that brittle which kept it in one piece.
The cronut was slightly sugared and was seriously delicious with the cream and strawberries in the middle which was sightly sweetened.
I felt like I was eating a strawberry turnover with cream but with more proportion of pastry.
Luckily it was not that oily and did not have a strong aftertaste like the one at the Mandarin which I read from Fungry and Fabulous's review.
It was great the cronuts were not sold out that day because I rang them a few times before going and no one answered.
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