Ever since the combo restaurants with a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Baskin Robbins (and a ToGo’s as well, but screw them, this is about doughnut sundaes and the sandwich shop can’t help) I’ve been waiting for them to figure out some good recipes and start marketing the doughnut sundaes. It so far has yet to appear, so I feel we must take it upon ourselves to invent them. So far I have only allowed myself to imagine the understated scoop of vanilla atop a glazed, drizzled with chocolate sauce and chopped peanuts. Maybe with whipped cream. But I know the teeming millions can do better. So go wild. Given the resources of a doughnut shop and an ice cream parlor what would you make. And bonus points for anyone who can get their local DD/BR’s to make it for them.
An “old-fashioned” donut with a scoop of black walnut ice cream, butterscotch topping, whipped cream, nuts, cherry
Best donut I’ve ever had- stopped in Ohio on one-day drive home to Indiana from NYC (I wasn’t driving, thank God!) at a combo Wendy’s/Donut place (don’t know which)- black walnut donut stick with a english toffee cappocino- GOD, THAT WAS GOOD!
An apple fritter (bonus points if they warm it first) with pralines ‘n’ creme ice cream, caramel topping and whipped cream. Pecans if they have 'em. Even better if they’ll scoop some of that apple-pie like filling over it.
And I’m convinced we’ll see them soon. This smacks of one of those brilliant ideas that manifests just after you think of it. (Or maybe a Dunkin Donuts exec is a Doper!)
It was probably a Tim Horton’s - typically Canadian, but I think we have a couple here in Ohio, and a few in Michigan, too. They make the BEST donuts ever. My Canadian friends wondered why they bothered to put in a Krispy Kreme in Toronto when they already had Timmy’s.
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I’d want one of those powdered donuts stuffed with chocolate cream, topped with cookies ‘n’ cream ice cream, hot fudge, and whipped cream. And chocolate sprinkles. A Choco Dream.
Clarification… by glazed do you mean raised glazed? If so, then the fragile warm donut simply MUST be placed on top of a flat bed of ice cream. A scoop of ice cream atop such a fragile delight would surely squash it into a flattened soggy shadow of it’s former glory.
Personally I think a chocolate cake donut would make a fine base for many flavors of ice cream. Or even better, blended into a thin ice cream smoothie.
You know how they make a banana split? Remove bananas, replace with four mini cake doughnuts.
Or, DQ Blizzard style - whirl up a plain cake doughnut (in chunks, like the cheesecake blizzards) with some chocolate and/or caramel syrup, and optional nuts (crushed peanuts are okay, but pecan or walnut should be an option).
I’d like to order a glazed donut, hot caramel sauce poured DIRECTLY onto the donut, then a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream, chopped pecans and a cherry.
This thread reminds me of a recipe I saw on a Food Network show…Paula’s something or other. Basically, the show specializes in artery clogging “down home” cooking. She made a cake out of Krispy Kreme donuts…with added sugar and grease. Blech.
I’ll take a Double Chocolate Cake Donut (a glazed chocolate cake doughnut topped with chocolate frosting) with a singe scoop of Gold Medal Ribbon (vanilla and chocolate ice creams with a caramel ribbon) please
I like WhyNot’s apple fritter sundae the best so far, but I just thought of another one. A buttermilk cake doughnut, with butter pecan ice cream, with hot butterscotch sauce. Mmmmm. Ok guys keep em coming.
Oh, yes! But I’d pass on the whipped cream, in favour of more caramel. If they’re out of fritters, I’d go with FriarTed’s old-fashioned doughnut and the same ice cream. If they’re out of Pralines ‘n’ Cream, I’d take Chocolate Mousse Royale, and then smack the manager upside the head. P&C rules!
(I was traumatized a few years ago when the nearest Baskin Robbins had SIX kinds of chocolate and NO P&C! :rolleyes: What were they thinking?)
It would take some doin’ to make me smile and puke at the same time, but that just might be it.
Hey now, if donuts can go with ice cream, why not frozen yogurt? This place near me sells both, and has a sign out front saying “DONUT – YOGURT.” (The place is run by Koreans, who I understand don’t have plurals in their language.) Every time I drive by, I go into my Dave Letterman voice and say to anyone else in the car, “And have you tried the Donut Yogurt? I hear it’s excellent.”
