But in a town dominated by Dunkin, Demet's is one of a handful of mom n pop - like locations. Sadly my mind was just on "RAAHH BUY DONUTS EAT DONUTS TAKE PICTURES OF DONUTS" and I didn't take pictures of the interior, which sports the classic donut shop decor. But that's what yelp is for.
The guy asked how many donuts I wanted; I was already kind of pooped from walking 4 miles so I ended up saying 4 when I knew I should have just stuck with 3. I couldn't even decide what to get for the 4th donut and the guy kind of Jedi mind tricked me into getting this filled one. Lessons learned: I'm easily swayed XD. I also must stick with 3 donuts for a representative sample of a shop (1 raised, 1 cake, 1 special/misc/wild card/random). Btws this fellow donut hunter has a very easy-to-follow methodology. And a nicer blog. Actually he has his own domain name and site. I swear I'll spruce this place up/migrate to a more presentable platform when grad school winds down! For now, enjoy the poorly aligned photos and improperly sized frames.
ANYWAY, the four horsemen of Demet's:
So this is the one that I just agreed to buy XD
First bite of the lemon coconut crunch and I could already tell that Demet's dough is AMAZING: fluffy, chewy, boasting the quintessential yeasty flavor. Couldn't really get a strong coconut flavor (unlike the coconut creme at Donut Plant, which I need to write about soon! and is also kind of an unfair comparison...) but the dessicated coconut bits added to the streussel-y crunch on top of the icing. The lemon part came from the filling, and it was exactly like packaged/mass produced lemon fillings that you find in store-bought danishes (also some paczki is similar to this donut in terms of the filling used...which I must also write about).
So all in all, probably wasn't that much lemon that went into the filling. I'm not a big fan of filled donuts to begin with, but this was alright.
When I got to the "honey dipped" raised, I realized that Demet's dips their donuts in a peculiar way; mostly the sides are coated, and you have a disc area on both the top and the bottom that are icing-less.
It's like they rolled the glaze onto it's side; just a curious thing I've never seen before. But that dough....soooooooo good, it puts Dunkin to shame. I'm probably going to be bashing Dunkin a bit, but Dunkin isn't bad at all! It's just not that great... Back to the dough:
fluffy, chewy, definitely the consistency that you would want from a classic donut spot. If I could make a pillow out of it, I would. But that would be kind of gross and creepy. I don't really know where the honey was in all of this, but I think that's what East Coasters call the regular glaze.
I couldn't not get the blueberry cake! One of the best varieties ever despite the fact that no actual blueberry was even within a 10 foot radius of this donut.
But who cares!? It's still freaking delicious. Their cake dough was pretty voluminous, and kind of reminded me of Betty Crocker blueberry muffin mix. Note the pretend blueberries; fun-fact, they're specs of starch and sugar, artificially colored to give the blueberry illusion.
Once more, we have the peculiar side-roll glaze, but this was a great donut nevertheless. (I still covet the blueberry cakes at Royal Jelly back home) .
Bringing up the rear was the mind trick donut's second cousin, the chocolate coconut crunch. Probably my favorite of the bunch--I do leave the best for last ;D
The dough I can't stop raving about serves as the base for a rich/sweet chocolate glaze, topped with the familiar streusel-y coconuty crunch (again, coconut flavor is somewhat MIA). It just so happened that there were these random troughs in the dough where EXTRA icing decided to hide.
I do-nut have much else to say (hahahaha see what I did there??!?!?!!) about the choco-coco-nut-donut, except that it is delishuss; it's predecessors built up the experience for the final act. Worth the 4 mile walk. And the 4 mile walk back.
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