Mojo Donuts
Apple Fritter
Banana Walnut Fritter
Maple Bacon Bar
Chocolate Peanut Butter Coco Puff
Raspberry Yeasted
Oreo Filled Cake
Crème Brulee
Candy Apple
Pumpkin Pie
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting
Lemon Meringue Pie
Nana’s Banana Pudding
Snickers and Shoestring Potatoes
German Chocolate
Coffee
Flying into Ft. Lauderdale via the redeye with a 6:55am arrival I figured we could make it to Mojo Donuts by 7:35 and with fortuitous traffic on our side so began my first dining trip to South Florida – at a small strip-mall shop in Pembroke Pines that is turning out some of the most interesting and texturally appealing donuts to date.
Diverse to the point of dizzying, a total of at least two dozen choices coming out fresh at six o’clock each day with several hot rounds to follow, Mojo Donuts is the brainchild of Shawn Neifeld and considered by some to be the only artisan doughnuttery anywhere near Miami a look at the wares proved nearly across-the-board impressive…only a bit of ‘put-upon’ hipster service holding the store back from excellence in all ways.
$14.99 per dozen, with a pair of fritters charged extra and a +1 check-in offer via social media, the Mojo experience began with a selection of bottomless brews and sipping ample amounts of Columbian java to cleanse the palate between bites the tasting kicked off with each supplementary fritter setting a high standard as crunchy shell gave way to supple insides laced in spice with fresh fruit to spare, a similar generosity of ingredients found in bacon gracing a pillowy maple longjohn while all sorts of childhood whimsy decked out a hole-less puff seemingly straight from the folks at Reese’s.
Onward and upward to yeasted rings and several filled options, including a stunning apple pocket beneath shattering candy shellac, it was only the Oreo-fluff sandwich that disappointed by proving a touch too heavy handed but quickly returning to form with tangy cream cheese and airy meringue atop red velvet and lemon curd, respectively, it would be hard to quibble with any of the rest, the lack of any ‘normal’ options notwithstanding…though why would anyone want ‘double chocolate’ or ‘old fashioned’ when they could instead indulge in Snickers and salty potatoes or deep fried German chocolate cake?
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