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Food Review: FROST Donut

Now I rarely, almost never, eat donuts. I try to eat right from the beginning of the day, not start my day off on the wrong foot. So it had been a while since I had a donut. Because I rarely have donuts, I figured I would go all out and only try the best out there.

I had heard a lot about the maple-bacon bar from Voodoo donuts in Portland. Most of the attention from Food Network shows from Guy Fieri or Unwrapped. So when I heard that Seattle had a similar but cleaner style donut shop, I had to try it!  FROST Donuts in Mill Creek's new shopping centre. My mouth was salivating from the moment I walked in. Literally, my eyes were glazed over (pun intended).  Now I never buy anything without a deal so using Groupon, I bought a $6 coupon for FROST Donuts a couple months back.

Only until now have I fully experienced the glory that is FROST Donuts. My friend Shawn & I made the trek up to Mill Creek. It was a clean, small shop. I showed the lady our coupon and she said we could choose from 3 tags, one for $0.99, $1.59, $1.89. We had the Mix and Match coupon so we could get any of the donuts. I was in food heaven! There were soo many options there it was unbelievable. Probably 30 choices but we had a dozen deal. The first donut that caught my eye was the Butterfinger™ Blast. A round chocolate topped donut with Butterfinger toppings. We got one of those and then Shawn wanted a Cinnamon Crawler. After that, I chose the rest. Only after the fact did Shawn point out that I had selected almost exclusively all the purple tags, which were the premium $1.89 donuts. Ooops. So pretty much $24 worth of donuts for $6.

Here are the donuts we got:

• Butterfinger Blast
• Cinnamon Crawler
• Caramel Apple Fritter
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• Autumn Pumpkin Spice
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• Aztec Chocolate
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• Blueberry Bismarck
• Chocolate Caramel Turtle
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• Glazed Cinnamon Twist
• Maple Cinnamon Twist
• Marcona Almond & Tart Cherry Bismarck
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• Salted Caramel
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• White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle

As you can see, they ran out of the maple-bacon bar. But we did fill up on some tasty delights. The Butterfinger Blast is soft, moist, and melt in your mouth deliciousness. The Blueberry Bismarck was sweet but not overpowering. The Chocolate Caramel Turtle has walnuts covered with caramel and chocolate frosting, so sweet it gives Cadbury eggs a run for its money.There were two old fashioned style donuts:  the salted caramel and the white chocolate raspberry. The salted caramel one was delicious. The white raspberry was kinda funky tasting. Both cinnamon twists were solid.

The Litmus Test: Was trying all of those donuts worth the one week of working out? I don't know if it was THAT good but it was definitely worth a couple days in the gym. FROST is worth it for one or two donuts, not the whole window casing. Until then, I will have to conquer the maple-bacon bar some other time. At the rate I eat donuts, most likely in 2012. Now off to the gym and no more sweets until Thanksgiving Day for pumpkin pie