Last week, I was scrolling through Gibson’s Donuts Instagram account and saw a post I had somehow missed: the December doughnut of the month: devil’s food cake with vanilla frosting topped with candy cane crumbles.
Why did none of you alert me to this??
Also, I like that during the season of “Angels We Have Heard on High” and “O Holy Night”, Gibson’s is using Devil’s food cake as the doughnut base. Cheeky, as our friends across the pond would say, no? (Do people on this side of the pond say “cheeky” as well? I do not know the answer to this question. Or perhaps I’ve been watching too much of The Crown.)
But I digress.
Devil’s food cake is apparently supposed to be darker in flavor than regular chocolate cake. It was difficult to find the origin of the name (and by difficult, I mean I couldn’t find a consistent story after a good 5 minutes or so of googling), but it seems as if it was deemed “sinfully” delicious, thus devil’s food.
Based on my research, Gibson’s nailed the taste of the devil’s food cake. It was chocolatey, but not overly so. The candy cane topping and vanilla frosting were just right and balanced perfectly with the chocolate flavor. All the flavors come through in each bite and none overpowers the other. The candy cane crumbles were also crumbled nicely – they were not too crunchy so as not to annoy our friends with misophonia.
Tastee score: 9
So take a break from eating Christmas cookies and run over to Gibson’s for the subversively named Christmas doughnut.
Happy Holidays, y’all!
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