On occasional late nights when he's tryna figure out the Decepticons' next move and stressing about everything, he'll take a break to sneak out of the Autobot base and seek out a place to get a box of maybe 12-13 donuts and just....eat them quietly at the computer station. He doesn’t do it very often, wanting to keep it almost like a novelty of sorts. 

One time he had to physically restrain himself when Minerva brought a box of donuts from her house and the other members of the team got all excited and ate them all and Hawk was so sad no one had told him or offered him any until he walked in on Slapdash wolfing down the last two while Ginrai, Cab, and Shuta cheered him on,,,he just quietly went back to monitor duty,,,visibly disappointed

“Is,,,is he ok??” Ranger asks. Waverider just shrugs. No one else knows. 

“Maybe he was just checking on us!”

“Yeah, we were being pretty loud..” 

And then they laugh. Hawk overhears them and laughs to himself. He doesn’t mind as long as everyone’s happy :)

Hawk eats them with some class, doesn’t like to wolf them down like he knows--for example--Ginrai might. He also takes small bites out of each one, just wanting to savor every bite. He knows a box can last him a whole week if he saves them, but the man just loves these so he ends up eating almost half the box by accident (its ok he knows it won’t impact his appearance since his true form is Cybertronian)

Oh, and he takes special care to hide the leftovers somewhere very safe where they will not be found so he can finish them off the next evening; he refuses to let anyone else do monitor duty late into the night anyway sir take a nap pls I worry about you and Dont start with But I’m Actually a Robot I dont Need sleep shh you need sleep 

and so while things might be stressful and terrifying because he wants so badly for earth to be safe and peaceful but the Decepticons are upredictable jerks and blow up a factory at 2 am for no reason so he has to rush out and deal with that,,,,, he’s thankful for the existence of these little donuts...the chocolate ones.....that he wouldn’t have known about had he never come to earth, and had he never chosen a human body as his other form.