Favorite Donut

[drjeff]

And a photo or two:

Those pics are making me think about taking the kids over to hike around Battleship Cove today (and then hit up a bakery in Fall River for some deep fried carb goodness! )

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Those pics are making me think about taking the kids over to hike around Battleship Cove today (and then hit up a bakery in Fall River for some deep fried carb goodness! )

Hmmmmm...... they do look delicious but look more like danish than doughnut. Judges? :wink: I don't think I have ever met a doughnut I wouldn't eat. Last trip to FL I tried some KK's and I thought they were too greasy. It's been a few years but I going to FL next week and I will force myself to try them again. :lol:

 

[Geoff]

Hmmmmm...... they do look delicious but look more like danish than doughnut. Judges? :wink: I don't think I have ever met a doughnut I wouldn't eat. Last trip to FL I tried some KK's and I thought they were too greasy. It's been a few years but I going to FL next week and I will force myself to try them again. :lol:

Nope. Deep fried. Danish are baked. If you've ever had beignets at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans, it's that batter with maybe a little more egg in it. The shape of malasadas seems to be a local thing. In Hawaii, it looks like a donut and they even shoot filling into it just like a Dunkin Donuts jelly donut.

 

[Talisman]

Good thing for you then that they're fried in vegetable fat.
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There may be fewer donuts fried in lard than the good old days, but like french fries, some are still fried in animal fat. The Dunks, Honey Dew, Tim Horton & Kripy Kreme type donuts aren't worth it to me. Some of the shops that still cook them in the back from quality ingredients would be tempting with a good cup of coffee.

 

[deadheadskier]

personally, I'd go for an animal fat fried donut in a heart beat

duck fat french fries is one of the best foods ever invented! :drool:

 

[MR. evil]

Winner!!!! Definitely a fave! try...

Mrs Murphy's is about 10 minutes from my house....If they had a good ice coffee there i would weight 300lbs.

 

[MR. evil]

There may be fewer donuts fried in lard than the good old days, but like french fries, some are still fried in animal fat. The Dunks, Honey Dew, Tim Horton & Kripy Kreme type donuts aren't worth it to me. Some of the shops that still cook them in the back from quality ingredients would be tempting with a good cup of coffee.

most DD donuts do suck. But there is a DD on my way to work on Rt 20 in Granby CT that has great donuts. They taste much better than typical DD stuff and are like twice the size.

 

[severine]

most DD donuts do suck. But there is a DD on my way to work on Rt 20 in Granby CT that has great donuts. They taste much better than typical DD stuff and are like twice the size.

They're probably still made by hand. Like I said, my dad did it for decades. He was replaced by a machine locally a few years ago. Before that, he measured, mixed (in a huge mixer), kneaded, rolled, cut by hand, set out for proofing, and fried by hand (in veg fat). Sometimes we would go chat while he worked and watch the process. Definitely a different donut than the machine-made.

 

[thetrailboss]

Maple glazed or Blueberry Cake.

 

[bvibert]

You wouldn't know it from looking at me, but I don't eat doughnuts often enough to have a favorite. If I'm having a doughnut it's usually from someone else's preselected dozen, then I'll often go for a jelly filled. If I'm picking from more variety it depends on my mood, but I guess blueberry cake is right up there, along with the coconut covered and the one encrusted with something crunchy at Mrs. Murphy's in MA.

 

[Glenn]

Mrs. Murphy's in MA.

That place delivers. 8)

 

[WWF-VT]

Cider Donuts

Toss up between Russell Orchards in Ipswich, MA and Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury, VT

 

[smitty77]

I rotate between 3 tops choices

(year round) - glazed stick - gotta be a cake donut base, not the fluffy raised kind
Blueberry Cake glazed donut

then in the fall, the good 'ol apple cider donut with some cinnamon/sugar coating

Yes, yes, and yes. And add to that list the pumpkin donuts that DD puts out in the fall.

Lloyd's donuts in worcester (Millbury St. before the fancy interchange went in) used to make the best, big, messy-arse glazed donuts anywhere. Had a tooth-ache inducing amount of glaze all over it. Another purveyor of hand-made doughnuts that has closed shop due to the wanna-be Dunkin Donuts.

Don't get me wrong, back when they were hand made they rivaled any place around. I used to frequent one particular location (Gardner, MA - the old Mr. Donut) because they still made them there by hand. Sadly, they axed the donut making operation there a few years ago.

 

[Johnskiismore]

Home made cider donuts in the fall. If you're in New Orleans, get a Beignet with mocha frosting and powdered sugar... oh yeah

 

[Trekchick]

I miss my grandma's fried cake donuts.
I have her recipe but I can never get them quite right.

 

[ctenidae]

As a rule, apple fritters rule. Not, perhaps, strictly a donut, but darn tasty overall.

 

[drjeff]

As a rule, apple fritters rule. Not, perhaps, strictly a donut, but darn tasty overall.

Personally I think that most any type of bread based dough after the appropriate amount of time in a glorious bath of hot oil tastes mighty fine!

 

[HD333]

"a donut with no hole is a danish" - Ty Webb

My favorite donut is the one left over around 3pm on a Friday from the dozen a co-worker brings in.

Cider donuts in the fall is my vote.