Snug Slug Activities

For my birthday a friend gave me some gift cards. They were left over from an event at her husband’s workplace and were set to expire on 12/31/2024. Since my birthday was 12/22, this gave me a very limited amount of time to spend the gift cards, which is how I found myself in a gas station on 12/30 ordering one of every donut from Dunkin Donuts and paying with six $5 gift cards, with many apologies to an amused and understanding cashier.

I ended up with 16 donuts and two medium hot cocoas, which were fully covered by the gift cards with about $1 to spare.

In the end it turned out that there were only 15 different kinds; we accidentally ended up with two chocolate-filled donuts and no plain powdered donut, but as I’ve had plain powdered donuts plenty of times before, I wasn’t really bothered.

The donuts we ended up with: plain glazed, chocolate frosted, whoopie pie, Boston cream pie, strawberry frosted, sour cream, jelly-filled, maple frosted cream-filled, cruller, chocolate cake, peanut, vanilla frosted, lemon-filled, cream-filled, and chocolate-filled.

Members of the sibling group did a thorough tasting and came up with some opinions. After a very fast and sugar-fueled discussion (yes, those things are related), we came to the following conclusions.

The lemon-filled was not a favourite; it had a slightly unpleasant aftertaste to the filling. Another one that ranked low was the cruller, which was somewhat chewier and more bland than expected.

Among the ones that people liked was the chocolate cake, a go-to flavour for many of us. The whoopie pie donut was their special seasonal one, made with the cake donut, cut in half with a fortified whipped filling. It was good, but it felt like there was something missing; we eventually concluded that what would really take it to the next level would be some strawberries.

The maple frosted cream-filled was very sweet and delicious but would have been better with some bacon to cut through the sweetness.

The chocolate-filled was another favourite, and most people agreed that it was good as-is.

And, of course, the Boston cream pie, another family favourite.

Hamlet got into the mix too by stealing half of the jelly-filled donut, which he was immediately relieved of and did not actually get to eat, much to his disappointment.