Susan M.
Yelp
I was there for a Yelp Elite event, so must admit, everything was complimentary...but I'd have lots of compliments for them even if it hadn't been! It's a create-your-own-donuts, coffee and specialty beverage shop combined, and just a fun place to be.
We had a Build-A-Donut party, where they provided three flavors of their mini-donuts (plain, pumpkin spice, and blueberry), an array of frostings (maple, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla) and drizzles, and an impressive assortment of toppings, including crumbled bacon, sprinkles, chopped nuts, tiny M&Ms, chocolate cookie crumbles, neon-colored cereal bits, and more. After a brief demonstration (flawlessly executed), they left us to our own devices. Our rubber-sanitary-gloved hands flew, and so did lots of crumbled bits! There is an art to dunking a donut in a frosting and getting it back out, let alone with the donut intact!
The obvious perfect combination was a pumpkin spice donut with maple icing, dipped in (real) bacon bits...OMG delicious...but there were oodles of others attempted! We made platefuls, some of which were eaten on-site, and any left were put in specially-made-locally-mini-donut-sized boxes to take home. What's better than being a kid in a candy store? Feeling like a kid in grandma's kitchen, creating our own versions of donut-heaven, making a mess that you don't even have to clean up yourself, and eating your oh-so-delicious "experiments" on the spot! Anyone can book a party (for a reasonable per-person fee) like this for kids or adults...I hope to host my own birthday party there next year!
Also included was a tour of the shop and kitchen, during which their passion for sourcing things as locally as possible was apparent, from packaging, labels, and logo items, to coffees (The Roasterie), Shatto Milk (Osborn, MO), for their beverages and available for sale, Belfonte ice cream to fill their Donado cones, and old-fashioned soda pop from a once-defunct Missouri factory being revived (which will eventually include a special Donutology-flavored pop).
While you're there, watch their giant tornado-shaped "Donado" ice cream cones being made from donut dough. Fill one up with ice cream topped with just about anything! When you get home with your own to-go donut creations (full size or mini), go to their website (www.donutology.com) to read all about the "World Famous Space Donut," the story of one of their donuts launched to a height of 97,000 feet on a weather balloon that landed 253 miles away in Illinois (of course it was "chipped" so it could find its way back home)! A fun fantastic voyage that also landed the shop lots of great publicity!