Blackbird Doughnuts
Monkey Bread
The Blackbird – Vanilla Cake
Strawberry Honey Raised
Salted Toffee Raised
Triple Chocolate Cake
PB+J Bismarck
Surprisingly finding Boston to be a bit resistant to the idea of fancy doughnuts, several locals and review sites bashing the three most well-known purveyors based on little more than distaste for the price, Blackbird Doughnuts seems to have taken up the mantle for the whole genre by dubbing itself “Boston’s Finest Artisanal Doughnuts” and with a layout similar to Chicago’s Doughnut Vault or Bluestar in Venice California the Grab n’ Go only location turns out some pretty exquisite fried pastry, though perhaps not quite as good as the best of the best.
Opting to use the bulk of its floorplan as a bakery rather than point of sales, the small queue giving patrons a few minutes to peruse the options before reaching the front of the line, Blackbird offers a dozen daily options plus Monkey Bread at a cost of $3 each and with coffee, tea and ice-cream also available the line actually moves fairly quickly with customer service that was all smiles and helpfulness just past 9:20am.
Taking choices to the curb, the reversed pizza-box packaging eliciting a chuckle when opened, tasting began with a small round of baked Monkey Bread that unfortunately saw caramel melted and hardened at the base of it, but quickly moving on to the eponymous cake doughnut with Vanilla glaze a far better standard was witnessed as the base melted with a soft crumb and rich buttery notes.
Rare to find a place where both yeasted and cake options fare equally well it was with admitted surprise that both Blackbird’s Salted Toffee and Strawberry Honey were reference standard in terms of texture as well as taste, the first doing a nice job of balancing sweetness to savory while the latter trumped Dunkin’s pink ring by a country mile, the Triple Chocolate a touch dry and almost *too* rich while the PB+J Bismark was stuffed just shy of bursting with lightly sugared Strawberries and a core of smoothly ground peanuts.
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