(And we can easily take down multiple cookie dough-filled doughnuts AND brownie batter doughnuts in one sitting, so you know we can handle a lot). It's not the pastry's fault -- it never asked to be topped with chicken skin crumble -- but that has resulted in donuts that just went too far.
Onion rings, on the other hand, were the usual greasy, thickly battered doughnut-style, while the french fries were merely lackluster.
The slugger Hank Aaron's newest undertaking involves another kind of batter -- doughnut batter.
The new menu items added by fast-food chains this year indicate as much: a brownie-batter-filled doughnut (Dunkin' Donuts), a bacon habanero ranch Quarter Pounder (McDonald's), bacon-filled tater tots (Burger King), a six-slices-of-bacon-and-cheese burger (Carl's Jr. and Hardee's), a choco-covered pretzel and choco chunk vanilla Blizzard Dairy Queenn), and a chocolate molten lava cake (Arby's).
Krispy Kreme said the cuts would affect about one fourth of the workers at its headquarters in Winston-Salem, N.C., and workers at plants where its doughnut batter is mixed, equipment is manufactured and doughnuts are distributed.
New England cooks know that mashed potatoes in the batter guarantee tender doughnuts.
The batter for all the doughnuts contains a Lev Sercarz mix that Mr. Solomonov describes as "almost like Turkish pumpkin pie spice".
One night, it included Kaiserschmarren ("the Emperor's pancakes"), a doughnut-like batter wrapped around rum-raisin filling and accompanied by a caramelized apple.
In the kitchen, Abdelghani said he starts with baking muffins, ready by 3 a.m., then moves to croissants, bagels, and finally four different doughnut dough or batter recipes — buttermilk, cake, chocolate cake and finally, the all-important raised-flour mix.
The machine drops six rings of batter at a time, and the doughnuts travel on green wire-mesh trays into a ten-foot-tall proof box, where the trays rise and fall like elevator cars until the doughnuts puff up and are ready for the oil.
