Dusty Donuts

My partner and I tried these at the Raleigh Food Truck Rodeo. The queue to order was quite long, so we thought they must be really special. We finally ordered the cinnamon sugar donuts with caramel drizzle. They were perfectly ok, but not great. The interior was a bit doughy, and the texture as a whole was not very good. Maybe if they cooked them a little longer to get a crusty exterior, the overall texture might have been nicer. With a little tweaking, they could have something really amazing.

These guys came to our office park recently for a food truck rodeo and I was impressed. I got half a dozen of fresh mini cinnamon sugar donuts. They were so good and for $ 3, I thought they were a steal. Service was quick and friendly. They also had coffee, fresh lemonade, and various flavors of donuts (powdered sugar and chocolate were two of them). I’d stop by again if these guys came back!

Oh, mini donuts: how incomplete my life was until I discovered you! You, with your bite-​size goodness, your coarse cinnamon and sugar topping grazing my tongue. Your hot, tender dough melting in my mouth.
Steamy? Well, they were! I got them served up fresh, hot out of the fryer at First Night. In comparison to the infamous mini donuts at the State Fair, these seemed just a tad less stellar, consistency a little more mushy (might have been because I crammed them down the gullet before they’d had a chance to cool and possibly set further).
Minus a star because they ran out of some of the essentials that night including bottled water and hot cocoa, and because the 10-​minute quoted wait for donuts was actually a lengthy 20 minutes. Minus another star given the confusion over making two lines — but not having a sign to indicate this – (one for drinks, one for donuts) so that we actually ended up having to stand in both if we wanted to get coffee along with our sweets.
But they earn a star back with the adorable Dusty the dog mascot who, as their site claims, is the «official taster and leftover remover» — sounds the same as my little pup.
Footnote:
*Sadly, it looks like you can only regularly come by these Apex-​based goodies at Duke football games, and the occasional soccer bout at WakeMed. But stay tuned to their website calendar or Twitter handle
for updates on when they’ll be out and about!