Glazed Gourmet
Glazed
Cannoli
Lemon Old Fashioned
Raspberry
Black and White (chocolate filled horn, powdered sugar)
Cookies n’ Cream
Apple Bacon Fritter
Having been to my fair share of doughnut shops, both the oldschool variety and those representing the new artisan style, I was excited to visit Glazed Gourmet when we first arrived in Charleston but finding the store sold out minutes after noon on Sunday the experience would be delayed until Tuesday, an early morning stop finding a full selection of fried dough from which a half dozen plus one options were selected, the total bill just under $20 with an average tip. Yet another Charleston eatery touting a local-seasonal approach with dough, glaze, and fillings all homemade plus no preservatives or artificial flavors our tasting of doughnuts began with the simple glazed version and moving on to other yeasted selections including the raspberry and filled cookies n’ cream everyone agreed that although the flavors were good, particularly the raspberry, the dough itself was seemingly overworked and stretchy with a spongelike mouthfeel that was generally off-putting no matter how ‘fresh.’ Focusing next on the cake options, textures fared better in both the tangy lemon and inspired cannoli with light mascarpone and nutty notes, but moving next to the ‘fritter’ the same issue recurred – an unpleasant stretch to the dough while the pastry itself was more a filled yeasted doughnut than a true fritter where the apples are integrated in the dough. Last, and certainly not least, the black and white horn…if only every doughnut at Glazed Gourmet was this delicious they would definitely be onto something – the texture something like a Hungarian Nut Horn with a ribbon of chocolate coursing the inside making the powdered sugar mess entirely worthwhile.
