When I was little my father would take us to the mom and pop store a few miles away for breakfast items. On Guam that would be empanadas, turnovers, and these homemade sugar twist donuts still hot from the fryer. I used to go in my pajamas because I hated dressing up. Donuts are a favorite of mine, even Winchell's when I was growing up. My father would stop in and we would buy a dozen donuts to share with my classmates or for his workplace. I would always get first pick out of the box and it would usually be the sugar twist.\n\nFlash forward to 2013, where donuts are on a whole new level and The Pink Box is dishing up some doozies. I know, fellow readers--these crazy donut concoctions started a few years back and this is old news--but have you tried Pink Box's donuts? The minute you eat one of their amazing creations you seriously go\n\nI know I did.\n\nOur first encounter with the Pink Box was a few weeks back while out antiquing with my mother and husband. I looked up donut shops nearby and this place happened to be on the list.\n\n\n\nThe logo is adorable, the donuts listed look sexy, so I figured it would be a great donut adventure. \n\nWe parked along the building and noticed a slight line forming to get in the door. Luckily the line subsided quickly and we entered the tiny shoppe to see a full glass case and racks of donuts behind it. There were donuts for every taste--salty, sweet, bacon, fresh fruit, and sugar sugar sugar. I was excited about the nutty donut with bleu cheese and figs, the baconator maple bar, strawberry shortcake, sugar glaze twist, classic red velvet cake, and a chipotle caramel round.\n\nI never expected bleu cheese with figs on a white glazed donut filled with pasty cream to be so...pornographic...but it is. The flavors of salty bleu cheese, chewy figs, slivered almonds and that pastry cream just have this crazy flavor orgy. I then moved on to the baconator bar--who doesn't love their pancakes with maple syrup and bacon all in one bite? The shortcake and twists were fantastic and light, as well as the velvet, but the star of the show was that sexy, gooey, spicy bitch--the chipotle caramel donut.\n\n\nThis is the one that you take home to mother. This is the donut of all donuts. It is simple, spicy, and perfect. That fluffy fried goodness, I imagine, is dipped and waved in that spicy caramel mix for a second or two, then flipped and dripped on a rack. I love that the chipotle is mixed into the caramel and specks are on the donut. When you bite in to it, your tongue sings a serenade of love. My husband and mother asked for a bite, and at first I was like \"YOU GET NOTHING!\" \n\nThat's mean. \n\nI gave them a third of the donut each and we all sat in silence, in the car, chewing and \"mmm\"ing at the grandeur of this beautiful, round pastry. \n\nThe Pink Box has my heart and my tastebuds whipped. I will never cheat on her. I will remain faithful and love her until the end of time. It is more than the crazy concoctions they create that gets me; their donuts bring me back to my childhood, the moments in the car with my father where I pull the twist apart and eat it like cotton candy--two fingers, pulling and prying it apart until it's all gone. He'd smile, and I'd smile at how happy my tummy and my heart was. These donuts bring me back to that feeling and those memories. That's what great food should do, and the Pink Box delivers.
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