Obsessed: Dixie Donuts , Carytown – RVA

June 22, 2014

To a mind so barraged by Food Network’s Unique Eats, Dixie Donut’s maple bacon flavor ($1.45) seemed almost like a forgotten crumb from the year before last year. (Bacon everything, including, jam, candy, and ice-cream, is good. Just no soggy bacon bits please…)

But why turn down a donut of dusky maple icing with crisp shards of bacon stuck on it? It is the simplest, and most tasty donut here. Elsewhere on their counter, Dixie Donuts displays some bracing creativity in what seemed to be a United Nations of the fried ring; I wondered if I was wasting time with classic flavors here and not trying out new ones that Dunkin Donuts will never hear of.

A Boston cream aside, I liked the two old-school treats I had: pine cone, cinnamon-laden monkey bread reassembled to look like so; a glazed French cruller, filling, but coming across only as a neatly twisted donut missing the shredded dough texture.

As you might have heard, Dixie donuts started their yeasted range only after a merger with Daylight Donuts, which has a conveyor belt machine for proofing and frying up pillowy donuts. That decision was a keel towards pressure from its competition but Dixie kept their cake donuts, which are light and not sweet. In other words, that crumble of dense cake when you bite into the crunchy “skin” is absent. The highlight is truly in their icing, as with a transpose of the Samoa cookie onto donuts. It is covered in caramel, daubed with toasted coconut flakes and drizzled with melted chocolate after ($1.25). Boy, was it good.

Prices for donuts hover around a dollar. Ask for the price of a dozen as they do have specials from time to time. Check out their very active Facebook page for updates on flavors and specials.

Dixie Donuts
2901 W Cary St, Richmond, VA 23221, United States
(804) 359 1119

https://www.facebook.com/DixieDonutsRVA

Opens: Tuesdays to Sundays, 7 am to 6 pm
Closed on Mondays

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