doughnut plant

new york, ny

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i almost wish that i didn't know about this doughnut place. i'm a doughnut fanatic (if you couldn't tell from my blog) and these might be the most delicious doughnuts i've ever had. the icing on the yeast doughnuts has extremely rich flavor (the valrhona chocolate is like eating an expensive chocolate bar) and the cake doughnuts are moist and spiced perfectly. who knew that ordinary-looking doughnuts could be elevated to such heights?

michelle, derek, and i walked all the way to their lower east side location and waited in a 20 minute line. by the time we got to order, they had run out of our favorites - the valrhona chocolate yeast doughnut and the creme brulee doughnut! in our despair, we overcompensated by getting a boxful of doughnuts: three vanilla bean yeast doughnuts (pictured) and a variety of cake doughnuts - the blackout, chocolate, roasted chestnut, carrot cake, and gingerbread. next time we'll need to get there earlier.