PrintSugar Rush: Tres Leches Cake Doughnut from the Doughnut Plant
A breakfast luxury, or afternoon snack, sometimes nothing quite satisfies a sweet (and deep-fried!) craving like one of the legendary creations from the Doughnut Plant on the Lower East Side. My personal favorite? The Tres Leches Cake Doughnut. Make sure to get the cake doughnut, which the Doughnut Plant has established their reputation on, and not the heavier and bread-y yeast doughnuts. Like the Latin American cake where it gets its name from, the tres leches doughnut is a glorious concoction infused with a triple dose of evaporated milk, condensed milk and cream. The texture? Right at that very thin line where snowy white powdered sugar meets butter cake. It's indulgent to say the least.
Doughnut Plant
379 Grand St., New York NY 10002; (map)
212-505-3700
doughnutplant.com
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7 Comments:
That creamy oozing center looks sooo delicious! It looks like how I'd feel eating that! =)
Cassaendra at 8:44PM on 06/19/08
Doughnuts are probably my favorite food, and while I usually stay away from the cake variety, that one could definitely tempt me.
Zach Brooks at 9:50PM on 06/19/08
Oh my god. Why am I not in New York?
worldcupfever at 9:53AM on 06/20/08
I always thought that the Doughnut Plant made their name on the yeast donuts, from the owner's grandfather's recipe?
kathryn at 10:13AM on 06/20/08
@ kathryn: When Doughnut Plant first opened in 1994, they sold only yeast doughnuts, the recipe, which you noted, orginated from Mark's grandfather. In late 2005, Mark introduced his cake doughnuts which caught on quickly and today, in both the US and Japan, he is better known and favored for the cake doughnuts.
Kathy YL Chan at 11:36AM on 06/20/08
Wow. That looks delicious. Must get to Doughnut Plant...
BrooklynBrownie at 10:32PM on 06/21/08
The Tres Leche & the square coconut donut are the best things at The Donut Plant - totally delicious! I wonder what the calorie count is for them???
marinaNY at 12:13PM on 08/29/08