Many doughnut favors are uniquely found under this roof. The doughnuts were good and the company seems to be very proactive in supporting good causes. However, the doughnuts we chose didn't leave us craving more.
We had a day off and we wanted to do something...go somewhere...make something good happen in this day of our lives. But we felt so lazy; we weren't up for hiking, running, or really anything physical. So what is the best bad choice we could make? Doughnuts! I had been hearing rumors about a doughnut shop in town with awesome flavors and we just had to check it out for ourselves.
We walked into Rebel Donuts and were pleasantly surprised by how many options there were. Some ranged from The Homer (Simpson) to Blue Sky (cotton candy flavor from Breaking Bad) to Fruity Rebel (with Fruity Pebbles on top) to Maple Bacon Bar (literally with strips of bacon on top).
We picked a half dozen doughnuts and we sat down and ate all 6 of the donuts we picked out right then and there. They were good donuts, but we were expecting more. As fun as the flavors sounded, we didn't realize we were preparing to eat cake donuts. We both started with our Oreo choice and were expecting more than just a chocolate cake doughnut with a little bit of extra Oreo flavoring on the top (neither of us are huge fans of chocolate cake). We proceeded to the others. Orrin's favorite ended up being his lemon doughnut and mine was the birthday cake (we are pretty sure they actually used birthday cake batter). Nothing we had was awful, but we didn't have the best doughnut experience of our lives (like we did at Voodoo Doughnuts in Denver... read about that in a different blog post). They had many options for the doughnuts, but seeing strips of bacon on a doughnut just wasn't our thing.
Having said all of that, the two details I support most about Rebel doughnuts are their flexibility and their support for good causes. Checking out their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/RebelDonut/), it soon becomes clear that they will use any excuse to be creative and make specialty doughnuts. Just in the first half of the month of February, they have had special doughnuts for the Superbowl, Valentine's Day, the Chinese New Year (year of the monkey), Fat Tuesday, Groundhog Day, and National Peanut Butter Day. Obviously this is a company that loves doughnuts and will use any excuse to make more. Look at how cute the groundhog below turned out!!
While enjoying out doughnuts, we couldn't help but notice that this shop had a free book exchange bookshelf (painted up as zombie theme, of course!). We love that idea of helping the free exchange of knowledge even in your local doughnut shop! We also see posts about this shop helping out homeless people by bringing doughnuts and donated jackets from the group 505 Cycling straight to the shelter. This is a company worth supporting even just because of the way they try to look out for their community.
We do not plan on returning to Rebel Doughnuts because we would hope for more from the actual doughnuts, but we do think that this was a cute shop and that people in Albuquerque should stop by at least once.
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