Pilgrimage to Kane's Donuts in Saugus

Maple Frosted [my favorite] and Creme Brulee Donut [my other favorite]

Back in the day [as of two weeks ago] when I was working at Zipcar, the engineering team would often buy donuts from Kane's to celebrate an engineering release. I would always finagle my way into their donuts by looking longingly and expressing extreme enthusiasm whenever I saw the boxes. Some engineer, who'd benefited from my baking, would inevitably offer me a Kane's donut and it would make my day. 

While I'd enjoyed Kane's donuts at work and I've been wanting to go for years, I'd never been to Kane's in person so my friend Jen and I made plans to go on a donut adventure last Friday, but were were thwarted by the "shelter in place." It was wise to stay put in the interest of public safety, but as Corinna put it, "terrorists suck."Therefore, we rescheduled and went to Kane's Donuts in Saugus yesterday. 

Kane's Donuts is often named for best donut this and that and most recently made it on Bon Appetit's Top 10 Donut Shop list. These donuts are very good and they come in a huge number of flavors. Jen and I got four different donuts to try: creme brûlée, maple frosted, apple fritter and jelly. All were awesome, but the maple frosted is my new favorite.

I also bought a dozen donuts for Adam's coworkers...he asked me to draw a "map" on the lid.

Row 1: Buttercrunch, Coconut Lemon, Jelly

Row 2: Boston Creme, Apricot, Honey Dip

Row 3: PB&J, Reeses PB Cup, Apple Fritter

Row 4: Creme Brûlée, Maple Frosted, Caramel Frosted

I needed an excuse to buy one of their legendary ginormous bigger than my head coffee rolls so I bought one for Wheezy since she was having a little b-day get together last night at Noir. We sliced it up and enjoyed the coffee roll with our fancy cocktails right then and there. I think we only conquered 50% of the coffee roll with eight of us. 

Happy Birthday Wheezy!!!

Close up of Kane's legendary coffee roll...the orange gives you a sense of perspective

Donut Tour - NYC

Check out this guide to donut shops in NYC. I've been to the Doughnut Plant with MGDub and it was delicious. We bought a whole bag of doughnuts, took them to a Starbucks, boldly asked the barista for plates and silverware, shared a table with some rail thin young women from Europe who watched us stuff our faces with doughnuts. I'm not sure what they thought about the scene, but they were pretty nice to share a table with us and chat about NYC. Pretty much all I do in Boston is eat food so I'm pretty sure if I lived in NYC like MGDub, it'd be 100 times worse.

Donut Tape Dispensers

My supply of Hi-Tec C pens was running so low, I actually had a nightmare one night that every pen I tried ran out of ink and I was freaking out so I went on jetpens.com to replenish my stash. While I was picking out my beloved pens, I saw these genius donut tape dispensers. I thought it would be funny to get them for my coworkers because they enthusiastic consumers of the Verna's donuts I often bring to work. I ordered a variety of tape dispenser "donuts" and "wrapped" them in plain brown paper bags. I wrote the "flavor" of the donut, added a Dunkin Donuts napkin I pilfered from the mall and haphazardly stapled the bags shut. Then I went around the office offering my coworkers holiday "treats" and I asked them what "flavor" they wanted: chocolate, caramel, custard, etc. I got plenty of laughs and I had a blast tricking people, but one of my coworkers was super concerned about the flavor she picked. She really wanted the cuppuccino, but coffee made her stay awake so maybe she should get another flavor. I felt kinda bad that I was being mischievous so I encouraged her to get the cuppuccino and said I'd let her trade if she didn't like it. One of them displays his "donut" on top of his travel mug and it looks real.