Tag: donuts

Fractured Prune – Donuts-gone-Krazy
My girlfriend’s parents live in Rockville, Maryland; you know…that place where Lewis Black woke up in front of a courthouse, married to a woman he’d never met three days after having chugged a bottle of NyQuil [2:25 in the video].

The Fractured Prune is a random little donut shoppe nestled into the new, massive Rockville TownCenter development…just up the street from the same courthouse! Although it’s part of a chain in the Northeastern U.S., this place feels seriously local. I think this comes from the fact that they make your donut on demand. That’s right – you can order off the ridiculously extensive donut menu or make up your own donut however you see fit. This time they were running slow (understaffed) and threw in an extra donut for free! This was the 2nd time this happened!

Think I’m kidding you?! You’re wrong. Behold their speciality donuts – or you can make your own:
- Banana Nut Bread: banana glaze, cinnamon sugar, peanuts
- Black Forest: raspberry glaze, coconut, mini chocolate chips
- Blueberry Hill: blueberry glaze, powder sugar (Find Your Thrill)
- Carnival: honey glaze, rainbow sprinkles
- Creamsicle: orange glaze, powdered sugar
- Chocolate Covered Cherry: cherry glaze, mini chocolate chips
- French Toast: maple glaze, cinnamon sugar
- Lemonade: lemon glaze, granulated sugar
- Morning Buzz: mocha glaze, Oreo® cookie crumbs
- Myrna Medley: chocolate glaze, chocolate jimmies, peanuts
- Ms. Prunella: mixed berry glaze, cinnamon sugar
- O.C. Sand: honey glaze, cinnamon sugar
- Pebble Beach: honey glaze, cinnamon sugar, mini chocolate chips
- Peppermint Patty®: mint glaze, mini chocolate chips
- Plain Jane: a naked donut (don’t peek)
- Rolo®: caramel glaze, mini chocolate chips
- Reese Cup®: peanut butter glaze, mini chocolate chips
- Strawberry Shortcake: strawberry glaze, graham cracker, powdered sugar
- Sundae: honey glaze, peanuts, mini chocolate chips
- Trail Mix: banana glaze, nuts, coconut, chocolate jimmies
I got the Rolo – Caramel Glaze and mini Chocolate Chips. Still piping hot out of the fryer, this puppy was gone in about .045234 seconds. It was good. Very good. Like…so good it makes you angry. Angry that you don’t have another one.

To summarize: the Fractured Prune is one of those rare places where I seriously considered locking the doors, jumping across the counter, strong arming the staff, and gorging myself on endless donuts until the police found me in a sugar-induced coma next to the fryer. Instead, the savvy workers anticipated the inevitable ‘twinkie-defense’ and just gave me a free donut for not getting too physical on the premises. Hats off.

Rockville Town Square
39-A Maryland Ave.
Rockville, MD 20850
301-738-2424
http://www.fracturedprune.com/
April 17, 2010
Krispy Kreme is Taunting me

Has anyone out there ever seen one of the Krispy Kreme donut machines in action?

Is it just me, or is this a little piece of Industrial magic? I stood outside a Krispy Creme in Washington, D.C. for like 20 minutes marveling at this thing. Truly beautious!

It actually got me thinking. Does anyone out there own a personal donut making machine? You know, those little ones you always see advertised in Sky Mall and other, assorted crazy crap catalogues. If not an actual machine, does anyone make their own donuts?

If so – do you love it? Does it make you and your loved ones as happy as I would presume it would? I know if any of my loved ones made their own donuts, I would mow their lawns, wash their windows, and write them directly into my will.

November 10, 2009
Donut Bread Pudding

I know John’s not the biggest Food Network fan, but Paula Dean and I are soul mates. She fries things, I fry things. She loves bacon, I buy it in bulk. She has a southern accent, I can fake a southern accent really well. However, when she introduced the world to Krispie Kreme bread pudding, she lost me a little. Why? One wrinkly little word: raisins. I hate them, can’t stand them, pick them out of muffins and carrot cake, truly can’t stand the little buggers. Her recipe also calls for canned fruit. Omg, what the fart monkey. Whatever, back to me. Safeway had doughnuts on sale, so what better time to make doughnut bread pudding? I followed my original bread pudding recipe, using cream, milk, eggs, coconut, vanilla, and white and dark chocolate. New to the mix were the doughnuts, replacing the usual challah bread, banana/chocolate cream, and sliced bananas. The beauty of bread pudding is that you can be so creative with it and it’s a great way to use up little things left over, for example the two half eaten bananas I had in my fridge. Such an an breezy dessert or snack. Just make sure to let the mixture soak up the liquid, otherwise you’ll end up with a crunchy dry crouton bread pudding.

From John:

Just wanted to let everyone know that this will be Varta’s last post on Epic Portions. She is starting her own blog at http://vartamelon.blogspot.com/. Make sure you add her to your daily blog readings. Thanks very much to Varta for all the great posts!

Ingredients minus the heavy cream

Not all made it to the finale

Cream, milk, coconut, egg, plops of banana/chocolate cream, and banana

11 and half cut up doughnuts. I totally typo'd that as doughbuts the first time and I'm still laughing.

Pour the wet mixture on top of the doughnuts

Love sprinkles

Golden yummy. After baking

DELICIOUS! Especially with ice cream on top.

July 22, 2009