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| - I have now been into Von Doughnuts twice to make purchases, so thought I would share my review. Both times the owner at the front of the house was very pleasant to deal with.
I have tried at least a bite of four different Von Doughnuts doughnuts.
- Cake Doughnuts
Wake Me Up - Chocolate cake doughnut, mocha ganache dipped, hazelnut drizzle topped with toasted hazelnuts. This was a good tasting doughnut. Dense and not very sweet (sounds like it may be really sweet but I found it not to be). The one thing I would say is that it is a bit dry, follow-up in my other Cake Doughtnut review.
Carrot Cake - Lime cheese icing with crushed almonds. This one is a great doughnut. Manageable size, fantastic taste. The reason I would rate this higher than the chocolate Wake Me Up doughnut is the icing. Where the Wake Me Up icing is hard, the Carrot Cake icing is wetter which is a much better match for the the drier cake doughnut base
- Raised Doughnuts
VON Kabobs - VON special sugar spice. This are bigger and better than Tim Horton's timbits. I like almost anything with cinnamon sugar so can't really go wrong with this type of doughnut. You can also purchase caramel dipping sauce for an additional $0.50 and that was very good too. I am not much of a dipper, but think this sauce would be awesome on ice cream.
Peanut Butter Jelly Time - Peanut butter icing topped with homemade blueberry & raspberry jam. It appears that the raised donuts are much bigger than the cake doughnuts, and this one is more like a meal. The peanut butter icing had a strong peanut butter taste and I liked how the homemade jam was not overly sweet. I almost think that this one could be a filled donut (jam) and have the peanut butter icing on top only because the doughnut is so big.
- Von Doughtnuts Decor
The only detractor of my review would be the actual store. I can get past the prices of the doughnuts after seeing and tasting them, but I find the store to be very dark inside. During the winter holidays, this seems magnified.
I believe that Von Doughnuts is using the previous tenants (a bakery) set-up, which is completely understandable but here are a couple things I would change if they happen to be looking for suggestions!
- Set up your bakery case to better showcase the doughnuts. Get rid of the bottom rack (too low) and build up instead, it is difficult to see the details of the doughnuts so low to the floor
- Change/improve lighting of the case, the current lighting doesn't look very good
- Change/improve lighting of the store, the current lighting is very dark
(Please note that the pictures attached to this review are from my first visit and I only tried the Wake Me Up doughnut at that time).
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