Going Nuts Having to Line up for Cronuts?

Cronuts, one of the other crazy fad food of 2013 along side of the Ramen Burger,  is one of the hardest food to attain. With a limit production every day, people start lining up before the crack of dawn in front of the Dominique Ansel Bakery....

But for people with jobs or better things to do, there's always alternatives to the original Cronut. For example, Crumbs and the Chikalicious offer their own variation on this croissant-doughnut pastry.

Crumbs' "Crumbnut"

Chikalicious' "Dough’ssant"

For a mere $2.95 don't expect too much from the Crumbs variation, I found it quite disappointing. Very dry and quite stale in taste, kinda like an overnight croissant.... However, Chikalicious' creation is well worth the extra $4 to buy it at their Dessert Club (which is conveniently across the street from the Chikalicious Dessert Bar). Airy, fluffy, light toasted, if it wasn't for the high calories, I think I would be able to eat 3-5 at once.

For the more amibitious foodies out there, there is also the option to make your own. Recipes to mimic the Cronut has been popping up around the web since its debut, look, even Amazon has a Cronut Kindle book: Croissant Donuts Preparing from Scratch~