[quote]“You just have to be super confident when you approach this task,” says Kora founder Kimberly Camara. She’s flipping a large tray of flan from one pan to another for the shop’s flan doughnut. It’s because of unique flavors like this that the New York-based Filipino doughnut shop has a 10,000-person waitlist. “Kora is my grandmother’s name,” says Camara. “The leche flan recipe is from my grandmother’s cookbook that I found after she passed away.” This doughnut begins with a brioche dough. Once the doughnut is formed, Kevin Borja, Camara’s partner at the shop and in life, cuts a hole in it, and adds flan cream. Next, an entire round piece of flan is added to the center. “I don’t know how I came up with it, honestly. I think what it came down to is they wouldn’t be actually experiencing the flan unless there was an actual flan in it.” The top of the doughnut is brushed with caramel and dusted with powdered sugar. “We basically got two desserts here in one,” says Borja.
FAT WHORES line up. 10,000 people on waitlist for NYC Filipino-owned donut shop.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 31, 2021 12:16 AM |
Flan doesn't belong in a donut. What pretentious, twee nonsense.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 30, 2021 5:32 PM |
I haven't had my Jollibee filipino spaghetti yet!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 30, 2021 5:42 PM |
Then you would probably not like Filipino spaghetti made with hot dog pieces in place of ground beef, R1.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 30, 2021 5:51 PM |
Sending you healing white light, R1.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 30, 2021 5:52 PM |
Flan is disgusting, way to ruin a donut, lady. That's difficult to do so, congrats!
Also, when I look at that purple donut I see a recipe for green diarrhea. My system can't handle large amounts of food coloring.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 30, 2021 5:53 PM |
And people wonder why Filipino-Americans have higher obesity and type 2 DM rates than white Americans.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 30, 2021 5:53 PM |
[QUOTE] This doughnut begins with a brioche dough. Once the doughnut is formed, Kevin Borja, Camara’s partner at the shop and in life, cuts a hole in it, and adds flan cream. Next, an entire round piece of flan is added to the center.
They’re on the waitlist for Boston cream donuts?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 30, 2021 5:55 PM |
I agree that flan doesn’t belong in donuts. If I’m going to spend hefty amount of calories on a donut, I’d get a big sugar or glazed donut, with just the right level of chewiness as opposed to these stunt donuts that are mostly air with questionable fillings.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 30, 2021 5:58 PM |
It's flan inside a brioche bowl, I guess. I like flan a lot but not sure I'd want it as the cream in a donut.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 30, 2021 5:58 PM |
No one claimed New Yorkers were bright.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 30, 2021 6:18 PM |
Flan is disgusting; I've never liked it.
But the purple donuts are not the result of "large amounts of food coloring" - they are the result of "ube" which is a purple sweet potato. I'd try that but I wouldn't stand in line for it, that's for sure.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 30, 2021 6:47 PM |
Ube are delicious (and a good complex carb rich in fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants). A donut made from them could be crack-like addictive.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 30, 2021 6:52 PM |
Filipino food is disgusting.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 30, 2021 6:58 PM |
[quote]No one claimed New Yorkers were bright.
Oh, please. I bet at least half that list are transplanted hipsters
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 30, 2021 7:01 PM |
Yep, the same people who line up at Magnolia Bakery because "OMG I saw that cupcake on Sex and the City!"
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 30, 2021 7:07 PM |
[quote]Then you would probably not like Filipino spaghetti made with hot dog pieces in place of ground beef, [R1].
I do something similar but with Ramen instead of spaghetti.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 30, 2021 7:11 PM |
Are you a college student, R16? Why would a grown man be that poor?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 30, 2021 8:24 PM |
R13 thinks that Olive Garden is haute cuisine.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 30, 2021 8:42 PM |
How is a flan-flavored donut so unusual to some of you? A caramel-custard flavor in a donut seems pretty normal.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 31, 2021 12:14 AM |
Because flan doesn't belong in a donut-- just like ketchup doesn't go on a taco.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 31, 2021 12:16 AM |