There’s a new craze in town – designer doughnuts. First there was Dunkin Doughnuts, now it’s Big Apple. At RM2 a piece, it’s the same price as their competitor’s.

So there we were staring at all the doughnuts. We decided on a pack of six. It better be good because I’m an unforgiving food critic. How did it fare?

We started with banana chocolate. The banana cream was a bit too sweet but I thought the first mouthful was quite heavenly. Chomp chomp chomp and we moved on to peanut butter. The PB filling was adequate, not too bad. Then we had the vanilla doughnut. The first bite took me by surprise – the snowy surface was deep in 0.5cm of icing sugar. By the third bite, I was sugar overdosed. Three down, three more to go. Choreos was the next. It wasn’t sweet, should have saved the vanilla one for last. By this time, I couldn’t take another doughnut anymore. But I need to soldier on. The mango doughnut was ok. My taste buds were overworked. I crammed the next few bites of the green tea flavoured doughnut and decided I’d rather starve than eat another sugar-laden doughnut.

Lesson learned? Never ever attempt more than two doughnuts at one sitting unless you’re below 10-years-old.

Big Apple is currently at The Curve, behind Marche’s. I’m sure franchises will mushroom after breakeven. Decent doughnuts but will not attempt another one anytime soon.