Every now and again I like to have a doughnut, and I recently came across doughnut shop Doughnut Time at their pop-up on Old Street, London. It did not help that I was hungry and had missed lunch that day due to work and had an appointment that I could not be late for. After that appointment, I was craving a little bit of energy and discovered the doughnut shop. A large window with a neon sign shows off the doughnuts; I could not miss them. Amongst the various flavours of filled and ring doughnuts were vegan doughnuts. Doughnut Time have additional branches in Notting Hill and London City Airport.
So, I bought three. I was hungry; of course, I did not eat them all at once! The doughnuts at Doughnut Time are all named with puns on the names. The Stranger Rings contains Oreo crumbs; Sia Later, named after the singer who has an iconic style, is a red velvet with white chocolate; Captain America is made with Hershey's "cookies and cream" chocolate; Life on Mars contains the little candy bars; Bellatwix Lestrange is named after a villan character in the "Harry Potter" series and contains Twix bars; Robert De N'Oreo is named after the actor and features Oreo.
I bought "It's Always a Gay Time" (custard filling and crushed biscuits on top), the vegan "Houston we have Biscoff", and a strawberry-filled one that I cannot see on the menu anymore.
So, what did I think of the doughnuts? Honestly, the Biscoff ("Houston we have Biscoff") one was amazing. It was just the right amount of sweet and dough and was not too sickly. This is a ring doughnut with icing and a Lotus biscuit on top. It is also one of their vegan doughnuts. It was delicious. However, the other two were filled doughnuts and were much too sickly-sweet for me. I could not even finish them, and I didn't like them. To be honest, those two were not worth the calories. The custard one was not quite as bad, but both contain too much sticky filling. The jam one was too sweet in particular and was mainly sugar without the correct ratio of dough to sugar. Also, the doughnuts are very expensive at over £4.00 a pop. (My total bill was just over £13.00.) If I were to visit one of their shops again, I would opt for a ring doughnut and stay away from the filled ones.
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