This is the first baked version in the world. The fact that theyвЂ™re arenвЂ™t sickly and greasy could make it very easy to eat them again!ДЄfter all, even though they have half the fat, they still have carbs (my waistline nemesis) and banana and toffee filling is not exactly lacking in sugar.Д®ven worse though was that they also make a baked cronut вЂ“ theВ croissant/doughnut hybrid. He moaned that it wasnвЂ™t a jam one, but agreed. I saved the other half for The Boyfriend. The banana and toffee creamy bits were as good as I was hoping. ItвЂ™s drier than a normal doughnut, but thatвЂ™s because you donвЂ™t get that slick of grease as you bite into it. And I carried it all the way home and I made a cup of tea and I sat down and it was good. I had already walked around the shops for two hours, I was ordering my lunchtime burrito sans wrap (saving me, as anyone who read my Chipotle post knows, nearly 300 calories), I was having the doughnut. I didnвЂ™t ask how much more (though reading the Daily Mail as I write this, IвЂ™m thinking itвЂ™s closer to the 350 suggested in their piece).ДЄt this point, I didnвЂ™t care. I asked about the calories in a dum dum doughnut вЂ“ Dad said a jam one weighed in at about 180 calories вЂ“ a normal jam doughnut has about 270. The result, he told me was a jam doughnut that had about 6g of fat, roughly half that of a normal doughnut.

TheyвЂ™re made as normal, sprayed with a little polyunsaturated fat and then baked.вЂ™ It turned out that man behind the counter was the dad of chef, and creator of Dum Dum, Paul Hurley. вЂSo tell me why theyвЂ™re better then,вЂ™ I asked the man behind the counter.

TheyвЂ™re greasy and sticky вЂ“ like eating really messy jam and toast (and I never eat jam on toast) but as I was standing in front of about 35 of them it seemed rude not to look.ДЄnd there on the stall was the magic word вЂBanoffeeвЂ™ and next to it, were round doughy balls of toffee and banana cream-filled goodness. To be honest, I didnвЂ™t read it at the time. A day or so ago IвЂ™d seen something in the Daily Mail about a new lower fat doughnut. I admit, the name was ringing bells in my head. The Dum Dum donuts lower-fat doughnut has arrived. Any minute I was expecting a unicorn or a flurry of pixies with shopping bags to run past. Today I went down an escalator and entered a magical world вЂ“ okay so it was the ground floor of the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, but it was still magical because was within it was a stall selling вЂreduced in fatвЂ™ doughnuts.

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