Sufaganiot: Takes 1 & 2

Trial No.1

Sufganiot (donuts, traditionally eaten on Hanukkah) started appearing in bakeries shortly after Sukkot ended (kind of like Halloween candy appearing in stores in August). We’ve held out until now, but the taste testing has begun (at the specific request of Savta).

This first batch comes from the bakery Shemo.

From left to right: “Klik” (the candies on top are crunchy) with chocolate filling that you squeeze in yourself; oreo cookie topping with white chocolate filling; whipped cream filling with chocolate icing; nougat filling with crunchy topping.

Millie and Aviva did the honors of squeezing in the filling of the 2 donuts that came with the injectors, then we divided all four into four pieces so we could each try all of them.

Millie and Adena picked the whipped cream filled one as the best.

Aviva liked the “clik” one and Bev liked the oreo one. The nougat one was good but soooo sweet.

Trial No. 2

This next batch is from a bakery sort of near Millie’s school (and I forgot the name).

The one at the top has mini malt balls on top and had vanilla custard inside. On the bottom, from the left:

chocolate with sprinkles with vanilla custard; chocolate with m&m-type candy and chocolate inside; hazelnut on top and inside.

These were definitely not as good as the ones from Shemo. No one liked the hazelnut one. The chocolate that was on top of the others was very thick, too thick. And the consensus was that the donut itself was also not as good. Still, we had fun tasting.