Bread Bakery - Donut Collection - Photo by Gal Ben Ze'ev Purim 2024 is characterized by exaggeration. If last year we thought the bar had been raised, this year it seems like it's been surpassed. Maybe it's due to the gloomy mood that demands more sweet carbs, but it turns out more and more small bakeries have joined this sweet frenzy, and the offering is wider than usual.
Roladin continues to put on a show every year, and their donuts certainly tempt - you can't take that away from them. This year’s collection includes 12 plump and beautiful donuts, some with new flavors, a mix of familiar classics with flavors inspired by the world of patisserie. Among the flavors: salty caramel popcorn donut / tropical mango and pineapple coulis donut / malabi with pistachio and rose / pistachio with Amarena cherries / amazing hazelnut donut.
We got hooked on the Coffee Royal donut that was caffeinated, creamy, rich with coconut praline, and provided us with a perfect coffee break in a single bite.
Price: 15-18 shekels for the extravagant. 8 shekels for jam
Final words: Roladin delivers a busy, designed, and tasty bite most of the times, and they are the prettiest donuts to bring for a toast.
Roladin Donut Collection 2024 - Photo by Ronen Menagen
The pastry shop of Chef Haim Cohen receives quite a few compliments every holiday. This year as well, Pitsi manages to serve especially plump donuts without much show but with a magnificent dough and, mainly, a wonderful classic jam that felt like a bite of childhood and adulthood together. They also offer dulce de leche, chocolate, and colorful sprinkle donuts at Pitsi.
Price: 9 shekels.
Final words: Pitsi proves that jam is really the tastiest there is
Moshe Sene 199 Ramat Hasharon. Also on Wolt
Pitsi Afik Gabay
Every year, Mimi manages to deliver excellent products for every holiday. Credit where it’s due, they're always accommodating desserts for the gluten-free and everything is still very, very tasty. Here too, Mimi offers gluten-free donuts that are truly delightful and plump, providing a decadent experience.
Our highlight was the cinnamon donut - a huge wow and in my opinion, even a serious contender to the classic jam - it's a combination of excellent dough and cinnamon - brown sugar that sent us to Spain with this churros donut.
Price: 8 for jam or cinnamon, 10 shekels for chocolate and dulce de leche
Final words: Sometimes less is more. Mimi proves it
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Mimi. Photo by Daniel LailaAt "The Little Bakers" in Nahalat Yitzhak, they offer a surprising collection of handmade baked donuts that bring with them sweetness and a light conscience. This year, they offer an impressive selection that also includes gluten-free donuts alongside classic cake flavors such as poppy cake, which was the biggest highlight for us, with a rich poppy cream and white chocolate ganache / lemon meringue pie / mille-feuille / Black Forest with dark chocolate and cherries alongside a collection of childhood flavors that made us very happy such as red Bamba with strawberry puree / coconut Bounty and more
Price: 12-14 shekels.
Final words: The filling here is notably rich and generous, and the poppy twist astonished us.
Website: The Little Bakers
Mille-feuille by The Little Bakers Photo by Ran Arda
Micky Shmo, like Roladin, is a dessert pro and knows how to deliver a product that works and is always tasty. This year’s collection of donuts combines classics and a bit of show, with a great dough that held up even the next day and prices that were reasonable. Our favorite was a donut filled with marshmallow cream and raspberry coulis. Other flavors: dulce de leche / Ferrero Rocher / Amarena cherries / Oreo / salted caramel / chocolate flakes, and of course, whipped strawberries.
Price: 7 shekels for jam and dulce de leche, 13 for special flavors
Final words: How fun is it that Micky Shmo has been exciting us all these years
Shmo Pastry_Chanukah Photo by Daniel Laila
Since the Bread Bakery in Rishon Lezion opened, it has been the talk of the town for its pastries. Pastry Chef Eden Nassim created a collection of donuts from rich buttery brioche dough, filled with a variety of fillings. Each donut is accompanied by a biscuit disk, chips, and crumble, making them tiny and tasty works of art but also a bit messy and inconvenient for devouring.
Among the flavors: Petit Beurre Cake donut / pecan and caramel donut / alfajores donut / pavlova donut / Ferrero Rocher donut / Oreo donut
Price: 17 shekels for flavored donuts, 6 shekels for jam and dulce de leche
Final words: Very rich and generous filling, donuts to bring to the office.
Lachish 2 Rishon Lezion | 055-556198
Bread Bakery - Donut Collection - Photo by Gal Ben Ze'ev
Pastry Chef Rossella Yona launched a particularly joyful donut collection at Biscotti, inspired by favorite childhood candies and snacks. From a handmade pistachio twist Kupel chocolate bar to a creambow with a velvety cloud-like texture and even to nostalgic red Bamba. The donuts are plump, soft, and richly filled, bringing joy.
Among the flavors: Apropo and white chocolate / red Bamba / nutty / the creambow was a serious wow / pistachio Kupel and of course the classics.
Price: 16 shekels for special flavors, 8 shekels for jam, 10 shekels for custard and chocolate donut.
Final words: Who thought Apropo could excite us so much
In Biscotti stores or to order: 03-5704015
Nutty Donut at Biscotti. Photo by Boaz Lavi
Michal Epstein, remembered from MasterChef and the owner of Its cafes, created donuts in the style of Italian maritozzo, large and generously filled. In Michal’s case, the dough is baked and very soft, and the fillings are exceptional, from lemon cream and raspberry jelly, through chocolate chantilly and hazelnut praline, to carrot cream with salty carrot caramel and pecan crumble.
Price: 14-24 shekels
Final words: Unconventional, not quite a donut but tasty, comforting, and unique
Its. Adam Hacohen 1; Shenkin 20, Tel Aviv. Not kosher
Carrot Donut by Its. Photo by Osenat GuettaThe pastry chef Rotem Barry launched a collection with classic flavors alongside unique ones, such as: pistachio raspberry donut / caramel popcorn crunchy / coconut with a tropical twist / chocolate / cinnamon. The dough is excellent and rich, and the filling is generous.
Price: 19 shekels
Final words: The price is a bit higher than the others, especially for classics like cinnamon
Baruch Hirsch 30, Bnei Brak
Le Rochelle. PRAt Amita, they collaborated with the Polish Institute and created the Polish ponchick donut - a rich fried dough donut filled with homemade rose jam, glazed with white fondant, and decorated with candied orange. A true grandma's treat.
Price: 18 shekels
Final words: It's a very sweet donut but also very special, worth trying
Amita. Shlomo 10; Bialik 27 (Bialik Square), Tel Aviv. Not kosher
Amita. Anatoli MikhayloPicasso, the dairy catering and pastry chef Eran Schwartzberg, created a colorful collection available only at Picasso and via delivery. Among the flavors: Picasso donut- pastry cream raspberry, cotton candy, purple glaze - purple coating / Dubai maritozzo - white chocolate ganache, chocolate coating / Carmela pistachio- chocolate coating + pistachio / caramel toffee– cream caramel, white chocolate ganache, caramel toffee cubes / mascarpone roses, white chocolate, and raspberry / Hershey's donut / apple tart and lemon donut.
Price: 16 shekels for a flavored donut, 8 shekels for classic. 45 shekels for a pack of three.
To order Picasso website
Picasso and Schwartzberg. Photo by yachaz.co.il