Celebrate National Doughnut Day

May 30, 2023 by
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Food holidays tend to sneak up on me and I don’t realize it is National [insert food here] Day until after it’s over. However, I am always on point for National Doughnut Day, because deep fried cake/sweet dough is so darned delicious. The holiday is happening on June 2, and here in the US, Dunkin’ Donuts and Krispy Kreme (among others) are giving away free doughnuts to celebrate.

The big debate in doughnuts is, of course, whether cake doughnuts or raised doughnuts are better. I will not turn away either kind if one is offered to me, but if I get to choose, I am Team Raised Doughnut all the way. Since Krispy Kreme is my favorite big-name brand (but only when the Hot Now sign is lit) and I do not have a location anywhere close to me, I will make my own doughnuts using a copycat recipe like the one from Brown Eyed Baker pictured above.

Are you Team Cake or Team Raised Doughnut? I’m curious to learn the reasons you prefer one over the other. I adore the pillow-y soft cloud of sweet deliciousness with just a slight chew that raised doughnuts offer. I find cake doughnuts tasty, but they are a bit too crumbly and dense to get my vote. Then of course there is curveball of cruller, which tends to get lumped into the doughnut genre. I would rank them slightly above cake doughnuts but under raised doughnuts.

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  • rmpostonmfandt  on  May 30, 2023

    Yeast-raised Krispy Kreme donut with a light sugar coating and to be extra fancy a dip on the top of chocolate is totally my jam. There used to be a mom and pop donut shop in my hometown of northwest Florida and they served a huge raised donut (like a plain Kristen Kreme) about as big as a dinner plate. I got one for my “birthday cake” one year and it was soooo good. I haven’t thought about that mega donut in over 30 years! Thanks for the memory! 🙂

  • Fyretigger  on  May 31, 2023

    Glazed ‘old fashioned’ cake donuts — the ones that have the cracked surface from expanding after the outsides had set. I’m also partial to glazed ‘french donuts’, which are made like cake donuts but with an egg rich batter.

    I did work in a bakery when I was in high school, and I have to say, frying raised donuts in a professional fryer is lots of fun. Once the first side was fried they were top heavy, and a gentle tap on the edge with a chopstick would make them flip over!

  • breakthroughc  on  May 31, 2023

    I’ll always picked a glazed old fashioned cake donut. My favorite is a local chain in the Seattle area called Top Pot Donuts. They also make a cinnamon sugar old fashioned that is a pretty close second.

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