Food & Drink Cronuts are taking over Chicago -- here's where to get them

Wave goodbye to your marathon training regimen (and your 5k training regimen), because our city has just been stormed by a mutated confection that is as delicious as it is de-motivating: the cronut. Just don’t call them cronuts -- Dominique Ansel Bakery in NYC, creator of the ingenious pastry, does not take kindly to that, legally speaking! So here’s where to get these demonspawn donut-croissant hybrids, that are not “cronuts” (wink).

La Boulangerie

The crognet: a Boston cream cronut with vanilla cream custard filling and chocolate ganache icing that’s distinctively moist and chewy, almost like a cruller. Other flavors include chocolate, raspberry, and maple bacon.

Available: Tuesday through Sunday, 11a at both the Logan Square and Lakeview locations

West Town Bakery

The doughssant: a cronut constructed long John-style, not because it has a flap you can pee out of, but because its fried layers of croissant dough are iced and filled with chocolate and raspberry jelly or…

... blueberry lavender or…

... coffee cream cheese.

Available: seven days a week, 7a at both the West Town and River North locations

Alliance Bakery

The kronut: a vanilla bean pastry cream topped with a rose glaze that looks nearly like the real McCoy and nearly triples the bakery’s croissant production. Too bad those magic elves are assigned to cookies.

Available: Friday through Sunday, 8a, but follow their Facebook page for notifications