Dyanmo Donuts

Chocolate Spice and Candied Orange Blossom Donuts

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The Yet Unnamed Peanut Butter, Honey, and Banana Donut

Donuts and beer.

The beauty and simplicity of such a combination is probably equal to wine and cheese or Diet Coke and cheeseburger in Rosie's estimation. Dynamo was offering both for free one drizzly Friday in order to invite customers to sample and name their new concotion. So of course we had to go, despite Cheney's distaste for the liquid portion of the offerings. Standing among throngs of Dynamo-admirers in the wet but charming garden out back, we devoured the newborn donuts in two or three bites. The classic combination of flavors was as perfect a mixture of sweetnesses: rich peanut butter, intense honey, and fresh banana. But in donut form, its texture was perfectly melt-in-your-mouth fluffy instead of the usual cloying, dripping, and sticky sandwich. While we were admittedly mooches in not trying very hard to come up with names to christen this treat with, it was because eating it only stoked the fires of donut-craving. We were too distracted by the need to buy more donuts immediately to be very inventive. In line however, we watched the last of the day's batch of donuts dwindle perilously before our eyes as the woman in front of us snagged the final Lemon Thyme. Cheney chose the Candied Orange Blossom, and Rosie went for Chocolate Spice. The Chocolate Spice was definitely denser than the PBHB donut, and not quite as magical, though Rosie couldn't say whether that was due to the particular choice Dynamo had made with this flavor or because it was simply not as freshly made.
She vows to catch them earlier next time, preferably on a day when they're offering Strawberry Earl Grey.