The taste test

We tasted doughnuts from three bakeries, and all were good.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Doughnuts 521 (photo credit: Dan Peretz)
Doughnuts 521
(photo credit: Dan Peretz)
It’s no longer about just being tasty and sweet, not even about the quality of the jam inside or the lightness of the dough. The new bakeries now talk about this year’s “collection” as if it were a fashion event rather than Hanukka.
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The designed option Micky Shemo’s doughnuts look like jewels and are truly gourmet. There’s a tiramisu one filled with Mascarpone cheese, a porcupine one with chocolate truffles, an espresso doughnut, as well as berries, pineapple and passion fruit ones. We tasted some of them and discovered that they are as good as they are pretty and make for a fantastic present to bring for a candle lighting party. (NIS 6-7 for the special doughnuts, NIS 4.50-6.50 for regular, baked and sugar-free).
Micky Shemo Kosher. Chain of five bakeries in the Haifa and Tel Aviv areas. To find the one nearest to you, go to www.shemo.co.il
The handmade option Moshe Ahuvi, owner and baker of this small bakery and café in Jaffa, offers many kinds of doughnuts for Hanukka.
Besides the traditional ones, this year there will also be caramel filled doughnuts, Belgian chocolate, baked brioche with ricotta and more. All are handmade using milk and butter. NIS 4.5 or NIS 39.90 for 10 for the regular doughnuts, NIS 6 for the specials (NIS 39.90 for 8) and NIS 8 for the brioche. (or three for 19.90). During Hanukka, the place will be open from 7 am -9 p.m.. Piece of Cake, 17 Yehuda Hayamit, Jaffa, (03) 682-2163
The intoxicating doughnuts
Oren Becker of Bleecker Bakery marries chocolate with alcohol in many combinations that will get you tipsy. He offers doughnuts filled with white chocolate mousse, Choya (plum wine) and lime, chocolate mousse and Drambuie (French orange liqueur), bitter chocolate mousse with Frangelico (Italian nut liqueur), white chocolate mousse with fig liqueur, espresso and chocolate mousse with Sambuca and more. There are also non-alcoholic ones with jam, mousse and vanilla (NIS 6 for a doughnut).
Bleecker Bakery Kosher. The Bleecker chain opened a bakery in Jerusalem recently at 101 Herzl in Beit Hakerem. For more information, go to www.bleecker.co.il