Our neighbors own a donut shop. Just today, they brought us a big box and a second one of holes. I’m so lucky. I eat one and make dh take the rest to work.
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My parents divorced when I was 7. I have great memories of my Dad coming by and bringing out the cardboard box filled with donuts. My favorite to this day is the cake donut with orange frosting. I also like a good cinnamon crumb.
We have several Asian immigrant owned donut shops which sell great donuts along with Thai food at one of them. A cafe I like makes gourmet donuts that are also good. I also am fond of Hostess and Entemann’s. I only eat donuts a few times a year but I do love them.
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We have a local donut shop about a mile away. Maybe after Covid concerns I can talk my husband into walking down there sometime for a breakfast treat with a bit of exercise.
Cauliflower “flour” donuts? I’ve had the cauliflower pizza (dough) from Costco. I bet that might work? After the deep frying and the sugar/glazing, it would taste the near the same?
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@deb922 I was going to post about the Cops and Doughnuts! We stop there every year on our way up North!
@abasket Barb’s Bakery in Northport makes these amazing cinnamon twists, we try to get them every year but they’re often sold out before we get there! And my H makes homemade fried doughnuts, very mildly orange flavored with glaze, so good! I don’t know where he keeps his recipe but I think it came from Bon Appetit.
We finally have a doughnut place near us, Yellow Light in Detroit. Opened last year and have been doing a brisk drive through business since. Have some unusual flavors like brown butter plantain.
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Donuts have just gone to the top of my post-Covid splurge list.
An independent donut shop opened about five years ago that sells amazing maple bacon donuts. I hope it survives. Unfortunately, they haven’t offered curbside pick up and I’m not eager to go into their tiny crowded store, so that will have to wait.
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One of the posts brought back a childhood memory. The Helms bakery truck that opened up the back and was filled with glazed donuts.
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I know a lot of people knock the new “fancy” donuts but the maple bacon is really, really a good donut. Bacon should be crumbled, not a strip.
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Maple bacon + donut is likely as divisive as ham/pineapple + pizza
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Did anybody try cronuts (croissant-donut) when they were the rage?
I did not seek the out , but I if I ever encounter one I’ll probably give it a try.
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At the farmers market I go to in Detroit there is a bakery that makes cronuts, they have a lemon cream filled one that is amazing!
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@cellomom2 , Eastern Market? If so I did not go last year (COVID) but hope to get back this year and will look for them!
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Yes! Eastern Market. White Lotus Farm, they also make this amazing brie like goat cheese, small rounds, expensive but worth an occasional splurge!
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@thumper1 yes the Brown’s donuts are iconic, but if you don’t want to wait in the long line, head down the boards a few blocks to Ove’s for your warm apple cider donut fix. We are lifelong OC regulars (north end) and I don’t want to stand in the Brown’s line with all the shoobies! 
I have actually never been to the Fractured Prune, because it’s not a traditional OC establishment. But recently we went with friends to Dot’s bakery which is around 28th St - best jelly donut ever! Highly recommend!
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Goody Good donuts in Laconia, NH. A nice big fluffy maple glazed - yum!
They just opened a Randy’s Donuts close to us in Southern California. The original is a LA landmark. The line was too long for a couple weeks but I finally tried it this week and it was really good.
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I am not normally a fan of donuts, but I was tempted this morning…stopped in Dunkin and they had “Cherry Blossom” donuts (we live in suburban DC. Of course the icing was pink!
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My husband can no longer even look at an Entenmann’s chocolate frosted donut. In college, some 40+ years ago, he got sick after eating a few. He is sure it was the donuts fault, so he has not had one since! He will eat other brands of chocolate frosted, just not Entenmann’s.
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