Unity Baking

Bakery: Unity Baking
Address: 331 King St W, Kitchener ON
Website: https://www.unitybaking.com/
Style: Doughnuts, Cakes
Price: $$ 

Unity Baking is a hip, fairly new bakery in downtown Kitchener (well, apparently they're soon moving to Cambridge, so no longer in downtown Kitchener) that perhaps qualifies more as a dessert shop than a "bakery", since they pretty much specialize in three products: doughnuts, macarons, and cupcakes. Yes, I think that's it. Of course, they feature several varieties of each at one time, but if you're in the mood for something different, it won't be here.

 Me, on the other hand, if someone specializes in doughnuts, you know I'll be there to give them a try. A little embarrassing when phrased like that, but true. At least for the first time, I always like to stick to doughnut classics. After all, the best measure of how well someone makes a doughnut -- or anything for that matter -- is the plain one, either with glaze or sugar. Unity Baking does the sugar kind ($2 each, all doughnuts). Simple dough ring with a small hole in the middle that makes it look like it was made on some sort of spindle. Biting into it, I didn't find it as soft and fluffy as I had expected. The sugar was nonexistent in some areas and flaking off in clumps in others and it just didn't taste super fresh. Doughnuts, especially plain ones, always need to be fresh! It looked really promising too...

The apple fritter was better: fairly well fried, though the glaze was again unevenly distributed and, as is often the case, I would have liked a little more apples in it. Still, it wasn't disappointing in the way the "sugar loop" was, so that was nice. Good, but not knock-your-socks-off.

Rating: **1/2