Tantrum Doughnuts Gordon Street — Restaurant in Scotland

This is my third visit to Tantrum and other than the “old fashion” I haven't found their doughnuts to be better than any other bakery. I strongly recommend and enjoy any of the “old fashion” doughnuts as I enjoy the texture of the old doughnut and I enjoy that they are bringing the original doughnut back. I will always visit Tantrum whenever I am passing through Glasgow for an old fashion, if you haven’t tried one get yourself to Tantrum! Unfortunately though I generally find the big show doughnuts to be underwhelming. I first had the Salted honey ring, which wasn’t particularly salty or overly sweet, it was very similar to an icing sugar glazed ring. Maybe I’d just not picked a good one so I tried a Baileys doughnut and my wife ordered one of the Christmas ginger doughnut, there was a very strong to the point of overwhelming taste of alcohol in the baileys one and the ginger one had such a kick of ginger it was actually spicy to eat, neither were particularly enjoyable. Today I thought I’d give the jazzed up doughnuts another try as I do love peanut butter and jam. The doughnut was a lot of dry dough with a big ball of really sweet jam only in the very centre and on top of the doughnut there was a dry ring of some kind of peanut butter icing (which wasn’t nutty and kept crumbling off while I was eating it), by the time I had reached the centre of the doughnut I had more jam than pastry and eating the last half was just as unpleasant as eating the first. There was no peanut butter anywhere near the doughnut and biting into the centre was similar to putting a heaped tablespoon of jam...

I've been hearing about Tantrum Doughnuts for a while now, and today I gave them a go.

Even though the dough was quite good, the good stuff came to a halting stop after that. The flavours were, to say the least, confusing but in a bad way. For example why on earth would an almond doughnut with a milk glaze have freshly ground black pepper in it? It might sound good in theory but it really isn't. It just confused me to the point that it didn't pass the second chance I gave it

Unfortunately my experience did not stop there as I decided to try the one with the little sugar rocks on top and milk glaze(which for some reason is quite popular) thinking that since it's got sugar rocks on top, it would wash off the horrible aftertaste of burnt almond and black pepper I still had in my mouth. To my disappointment I was yet again wrong, as along with the little sugar rocks it also had salt rocks as a toping resulting in it tasting like a bad pretzel with a milky glaze.

This might be a strong review and I understand that but almost £8 later I did not enjoy anything I bought and ended up...

I cannot stop thinking about the Tantrum donuts I ate yesterday. I literally carried them round shopping with me all day and had them when I got home at 11pm 😆 You cannot make a wrong choice when you choose flavours. They are all spectacular. Check out the sugar coated ring donuts too, they’re different, light and exquisite.

My substantially filled donuts had a rich chocolate creamy custard in one and rhubarb and custard in the other. Yum! And there was still enough donut for them not to feel overfilled. The almond ring donut had subtle undertones of nutmeg and felt like it was from an ancient, magical recipe of the Gods!

It’s an out of this world experience and if I didn’t live two hours away in the depths of the countryside I’d be back for more today! Thank you for your wonderful creations Tantrum! You make the world a better place and are true donut connoisseurs!!! 🍩 💕...