The Glory of the Pike Place Market Mini-Donut Pooper
The Place: Daily Dozen Doughnut Company, 93 Pike St., 567-7769, DOWNTOWN.
The Hole: A half-dozen assorted. Two plain donuts are tossed into a bag with a long pour of cinnamon sugar and given a good shake. Those are followed by two powdered sugar, and two more topped with chocolate and sprinkles. You'll need $3.25 in cash for the whole diabetes-inducing mess, after tax.
The Shit: Many a child has looked through the window at Daily Dozen, watched the pneumatic dough distributor pumping little rings into the grease, and thought "It looks like it's pooping."
But even if the owner of the long-running stand painted the machine to look like a butt, Daily Dozen would still have a line winding in front of the neighboring stalls. Such is the magic of a still-warm donut.
If you saw the Food Network donut showdown (won by Mighty-O's Sara Beth), you heard the judges berate the contestants for having entries that were too soaked through with the frying oil.
That criticism could probably be made of Daily Dozen. There is very little cakiness to these fried bits of carbohydrates; they're mostly crisped oiliness. But once again, that technical flaw is completely overshadowed by the fact that your donut is still so warm the chocolate on top is a melty goo and the powdered sugar has melded into the crust.
The original plan was to get a half-dozen, eat one, share one, and save the rest for dessert later in the week. The bag lasted only minutes.
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