Product: Kinnikinnick Foods Chocolate Coated Donuts – $6.99+
It had been about nine months since I last ate a donut. I went gluten-free back in February, and on a trip to visit my parents, I had my amazing last meal of donuts from a local shop nearby. What a way to end a run with one of my favorite guilty pleasures. I mean, who doesn’t like a donut every now and again? There are so many varieties out there to try, each with a different texture, different flavor, glazed, sugar-coated, jelly-filled, etc.
Now, I like to eat healthy as much as anyone, but when you are constantly being bombarded with donuts at the office, of which you know you can’t even take a small sample of one, or splitting one with a co-worker…you begin to crave. Well, this happens a lot at my office, so you can imagine how much I really, really, REALLY wanted a donut after nine months going without even a taste.
I knew there were gluten-free options out there, found in the freezer section of most grocery stores. The variety is limited. Normally they have one or two kinds from one or two brands out there. I have found Glutino and Kinnikinnick brands at a few stores nearby. But the craving was never worth the steep price on these boxes of six donuts.
Then, while hunting down an ingredient I needed at my local natural foods store, my roommate spotted the Kinnikinnick brand in the freezer…on sale! So, she surprised me by grabbing a box of the Chocolate Glazed Donuts (the store also had Vanilla Glazed and Cinnamon Sugar) and purchasing them. For blog purposes, of course!
That Sunday, we decided we would give them a nosh for breakfast. Oh yeah…nothing says Sunday like treating yourself to a sinful breakfast consisting of a gluten-free donut. And yes…we did keep to only one each!
Kinnikinnick really, really does good work when it comes to their products. I put the donut on a plate and warmed it in the microwave for about 20 seconds. That’s all it took. The glaze heated and warmed and the donut thawed out into cake-like perfection. I served them up and we each took a bite.
Blew me away. It was like treating myself to Dunkin’ Donuts without the gluten! Seriously. These cake-like, chocolate-dipped delights might be small, but they pack a whollup when it comes to serious flavor, texture, and yum-factor. I mean, you gotta have the yum-factor when it comes to donuts, right? I wasn’t expecting these to be so good. But, damn…I was going back to my childhood when we would get treated to Dunkin’ Donuts every now and again. Chocolate is always a good choice.
The chocolate each donut is dipped in melts a little and then cools down and becomes a glaze for these donuts. It pairs very well with the cake-like base that is hidden beneath the dark chocolate, sweet topping. Like…eating the top layer of a Boston cream pie. No…really. This was more of a dessert than breakfast. But breakfast can be a treat sometimes, yes?
Being healthy doesn’t mean you have to give up treats. It’s okay to indulge in something bad for you every now and again. I am so glad that Kinnickinnick produces these donuts. And it’s probably a good thing they retail at such a high price, because I would probably stock my freezer with them. When something is so reminiscently good…well…it’s worth raving about.
Need a gluten-free treat for the office that everyone will love? Next time the boss wants to bring in donuts, point him toward the freezer section of the grocery store. One little heat in the microwave and it’s like getting them hot from the oven. Mmmm…sometimes it’s so good to be bad.
The Celiathlete 