The Boston Traveler

Can’t get to New England right now for a unique regional carb fix? Still too bloated from all the holiday cuisine scarfed down over the last few months? Well, Massachusetts-based donut chain Honey Dew Donuts has exactly what figure-conscious people near and far need this New Year, and unlike many good things in life, it’s perfectly free.

Surf over to the Honey Dew Virtual Bakery and you can go crazy mixing up the perfect donut(s) of your dreams, all without consuming a single calorie. You are in total control to choose whatever style, flavor, coating, icing, filling, and topping you want from among over 400,000 possible combinations. That’s right—400,000.

Does a grape- or mint-filled concoction sound tasty to you? Or how about icing to the tune of bubble gum or peanut butter? I’ve never heard of those particular flavors for donut filling and icing before, but Honey Dew’s virtual bakery will certainly let you squeeze them on in or slather them on top.

When you’re finished selecting the most original, delectable, outrageous fusion of flavors and textures possible, “bake” up a batch to send to friends in an e-Card; you can save up to a dozen distinct combos. It would be wild if you could order some of the same donuts to eat in real life, too, but that’s not an available feature, unfortunately.

Still, the virtual bakery gets my vote for a fun time-waster to help pass the day more quickly during lulls at the office, provided you can withstand the mad sugar craving that visiting the site is almost guaranteed to cause. Another caveat is that virtual bakers must register for an account before they can dish out any treats to their friends, creating yet more Internet clutter to keep track of along with the typical 17 different email addresses and 96 case-sensitive, 35-character, alphanumeric online account passwords most Web users have.

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