Doughnut prices rising

December 2, 2007 - 12:07 PM by

Wouldn’t you know it. Hannukah begins this week and the price of soufganiyot (those outragous heart-stopping, artery-clogging jelly doughnuts you just can’t do hannukah without) has doubled.

True, no-one really eats these doughnuts at any other time of the year and doughnut makers have gotta make a living, but still…

According to one report, in some places prices of jelly doughnuts have risen to NIS 5 – that’s more than a dollar each.

I try to steer clear of doughnuts generally, whatever the price, but I’ve got a weakness for Roladin’s gourmet doughnuts filled with whipped cream, or dulche de leche, or banana cream.

Then there’s the ones my Moroccan mother-in-law makes – dough rings cooked in hot oil, smothered in icing sugar, and eaten hot and fresh.

Must get the recipe for those. Will share it here if I can. But beware, she doesn’t do precise quantities. I once tried to make a chocolate cake of hers.

“So how much flour do I need?”

“About this much cherie…” She replied, shaking an indiscriminate amount of flour into the bowl.

“And eggs?”

“Four, maybe five or six.”

Tags: • Category: Food, General, Holidays, Life 

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7 Comments on Doughnut prices rising

  1. Avi on Sun, Dec 2nd 2007 3:00 PM

    2. MMM! Donuts! I wish there was still Dunkin Donuts in Israel.

    I promised myself, only 1 sufganiya over the whole holiday – not going to happen, since I need to get in a year’s worth of donut consumption in one week (well, the few months that it’s out). Of course, one donut is more than a year’s worth of fat consumption.

  2. nicky on Sun, Dec 2nd 2007 3:45 PM

    3. Yes, it’s amazing that the bakeries don’t come up with a reduced fat doughnut.
    Could be a great marketing ploy.

    Half the fat of normal doughnuts – I’d go for that.

  3. Chaya on Sun, Dec 2nd 2007 10:12 PM

    4. I’m not in the least bit tempted to eat a donut. There is too much donut and not enough filling. When I was in high school in New Jersey I worked at Dunkin’ Donuts. Now, those were donuts!! The manager used to yell at me cause I would put too much cream in the donuts!! A perk of the job was that I could take home the donuts that were left over at the end of the day!

  4. Lisa on Mon, Dec 3rd 2007 8:40 AM

    5. Hey Nicky – Lechem Erez has low-fat doughnuts. The dough is baked instead of fried, so it’s kind of a brioche shell with filling.

  5. nicky on Mon, Dec 3rd 2007 9:18 AM

    6. Thanks Lisa – that’s good to know.

    All this talk of donuts and Dunkin’Donuts is giving me an appetite.

  6. lirun on Wed, Dec 5th 2007 11:26 AM

    7. i remember when they were 20 aguroth

  7. Stephanie on Wed, Dec 5th 2007 3:06 PM

    8. 20 agurot!! Geeyad!

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