Krispy Kreme’s New Donuts Just Made Thanksgiving Easier

Well, I hope Krispy Kreme HQ enjoyed its (checks calendar)… seven days off. I’ve spoken a lot in the last month or two about the doughnut chain’s rapid pace when it comes to new collections – always with a sense of admiration at the sheer speed at which they all work, I must add – and after a flurry of Halloween drops, shortly followed by a Holiday Collection, I thought they might decide to put their feet up for the rest of November. What a foolish thing to assume! A week after announcing their festive doughnuts, Krispy Kreme is back with a new Thanksgiving Collection and a trio of new treats to boot. 

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For fans of all things cozy, this one’s for you. These new flavors are very comforting indeed. 

Krispy Kreme Thanksgiving Collection

Krispy Kreme’s getting ahead of the game with its new Thanksgiving Collection: Available from today, November 12, through Thanksgiving Day, you’ve got two weeks to sample what it’s cooking up. The chain is very much framing this collection as a dessert you can bring along to the big day – or, if you’re hosting, a way to keep people sweet if you forego the pumpkin pie. That said, you can, of course, just…eat them whenever you want. 

But to the flavors! The four doughnuts in the Thanksgiving Collection are:

• Berry Cobbler Doughnut: The first of its three new doughnuts, and potentially my favorite. An unglazed shell doughnut with a raspberry-flavored filling, dipped in mixed berry icing and topped with berry oat crumble.
• Caramel Pumpkin Doughnut: Krispy Kreme keeps the pumpkin spice train rolling with this second new option. An Original Glazed doughnut dipped in caramel icing and pumpkin spice cookies, adorned with pumpkin cream frosting and a touch of cinnamon. 
• Double Chocolate Crumble Doughnut: The third newbie, and one for the chocolate lovers. An unglazed shell doughnut with chocolate creme filling, dipped in chocolate icing, and topped with cookie crumbles. 
• Cinnamon Apple Filled Doughnut: And finally, Krispy Kreme keeps things familiar with this one, which first dropped last year. An unglazed shell doughnut with powdered cinnamon coating and piped with apple cinnamon filling. 

And What Do We Think?

I like that Krispy Kreme has tried to emulate some of the more traditional dessert flavors of this time of year in its doughnuts here – and while I suspect the Caramel Pumpkin doughnut might go just a bit too hard on the sweetness (although I’m willing to be proved otherwise), by and large, this is a solid collection. It’s the Berry Cobbler doughnut that I think sounds most promising here, though. If the berry notes are full and deep enough, and it doesn’t just go for full-on sugariness, this could be a slam dunk.