Vincent Van Doughnut

The dougnut craze continues to run wild. St. Louis doughnut truck owner Vincent Brian Marsden and his pastry chef Jamie Hardesty took home first place in the Cooking Channel’s “Donut Showdown.” The final round required the team to create Las Vegas-themed doughnuts, and they definitely rose to the challenge: they crafted The Venetian, a doughnut filled with ricotta pasty cream, then glazed with lemon and topped with pistachios and tarragon.

The Venetian, filled with ricotta pastry cream, glazed with lemon and topped with pistachios and tarragon – See more at: http://www.saucemagazine.com/blog/?p=37039#.