SWEET SNACKS FROM MEDFORD

Have you heard of the CBS4 AList? I don't know how you haven't, since nearly every business in the city has been nominated. But it's this thing where anyone can nominate a Boston based business and people vote for their favorites. It's basically a big popularity contest, kinda like in high school when you're voting for the prom court. I never voted, but Leah was nice enough to nominate my store in the "Desserts" section since there wasn't a "chocolate" category. So we were surfing around looking at the other nominees last week when we noticed a place called Donuts with a Difference. I'm gonna digress right now and tell you all to visit the CBS4 website to vote for Leah if you haven't done it already. http://cbs4boston.cityvoter.com/Details.aspx?p=2051&Cat=19&SCat=17

But back to the donuts. We decided we wanted to check out this donut place and buy a dozen donuts before heading over to the Pride parade, so on a very rainy Saturday morning, Tom and i headed up to Medford to get the donuts. After getting a little lost, we found this tiny shop on the main part of downtown Medford. It was a store that looked like it'd been there since the 70's. Not much charm, and kinda dark, but they did have a lot of donuts. We picked up 6 different varieties, and it ended up being super cheap. Just $6 for a dozen.

And while we were in Medford, I remembered that there was a Modern Pastry. Since I never go to the North End anymore (there just isn't anywhere to park and I hate the T) I go to Modern like once a year now. But i do love their almond cookies (the plain ones, not the ones with pine nuts) and I picked up a half dozen of those. Here they are below. So light, and chewy, but with a crunchy exterior. I love them.And returning to the donuts. There we were at Pride. The rain was coming down and we ducked under an awning at the Four Seasons for a donut break. And here they are:The look pretty nice. Here's a pic of Leah's boston cream donut. These donuts turned out being super super dense donuts. Leah liked the cream filling, but was sad there was so little of it.And here's tom's jelly donut. Again, not a whole lot of jelly in the middle, but a very dense donut exterior.
I just nibbled on a chocolate donut with sprinkles, but thought it was too much after all the almond cookies I'd had. I think these donuts were worth a try, but probably not a drive all the way to Medford. They were just a bit too heavy and dense, though they were very fresh. Those almond cookies are a different story, though. Almost worth taking the T to the North End. Almost.