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Doughnuts :agree
1. What kind is your favorite? Boston Cream, followed by a Crueller. Ot Apple Cinnamon.
2. Do you like fillings? Only custard. Hold the jams.
3. Donut Holes - Yum! But I'm picky about them because i find them too sweet.
4. How to you eat them? Like a normal person? :gotchaI bite them. Until they are gone.
5. Where do you buy your donuts? I prefer to make them. I don't like commercial doughnuts over all. Except Timmy's!

jk703 said:
we just got a Tim Hortons, so I said I would give them a try!
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Do it! I love Timmy's doughnuts. Not too sweet. I always wanna be a coffee drinker so i can order a double double (double cream, double sugar). Also, I'm not. I want to hear how you like them Jen!

Here's my recent doughnut page:
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I like any of them except just the plain glazed ones. I don't like those at all! As for filled, lemon is my favorite. I'm not a huge sweet eater and even less lately. I have one of those mini donut makers, but haven't used it in probably a year or more.
 
I don't eat them anymore unless I bake them grain-free. But a few years back when I did, I absolutely loved cream filled long johns with chocolate icing. DH and I would stop at a grocery store on the way in to work. They were so fresh, sometimes they were slightly warm. I would buy a frappacino to drink with it. I don't even want to think about the carbs.
 
I'm not a big donut fan -- too sweet and they bother my tummy. I'd rather have a bagel any day. That said, we had a place open near us that makes mini gourmet donuts with all sorts of funky toppings. They are more like the "cake" donuts and they have flavors like strawberry cheesecake, smore, banana crunch, cookie dough, cinnamon bun etc., and then they make specials like they did a Lucky Charm one for St Patrick's day - topped with a frosting and Lucky Charms. They are really yummy.
 
I haven't had a donut in over a year and a half...until today when I had THREE!!! Hangs head in major shame!!

My favorite are the French Crullers!! We usually just hit up DD if the girls want one because they're super close to the house, but this morning we were close to a mom and pop donut shop so we stopped there today. So. Good.
 
Call me boring, but I love plain old cinnamon doughnuts, none of that fancy schmancy glazed doughnuts here, I'm a simple girl :giggle
 
oh jenn - you are so bad! i rarely eat them - i think this happened when my daughter stopped eating eggs, so virtually all baked goods (that weren't homemade) became a No-NO. but honestly i wouldn't turn any kind down. seriously they are all yummy and if i do get one - it takes me forever to decide which one bc i want them all!!!
 
My daughter just got home from Stan's Donuts. They got shakes for the first time. You pick a donut and they grind it up to mix into your shake. Her shake was gone by the time she walked home... but she did split the little mini donut with me :-)
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Ohmygoodness! I want that shake and donut, Tracie! YUM!


:giggle.... sorry ladies. I give in to my weaknesses often... only cause if I don't, I will eat double or triple! LOL!
 
and now i want a donut. :giggle

I love donuts and am another one that calls Boston Creme my favorite. Has to have custard not that nasty lard filled white cream (that my hubby prefers). We usually get donuts at Dunkin Donuts and sometimes from the grocery store, either Martins or Meijer.

side note: I used to love Woolworths too. As a kid we'd take the train into Chicago and my parents would give us spending money and we'd go from Woolworths to Woolworths buying little trinkets and cheap makeup at each one. There was pretty much one on every other corner in Chicago.
 
All this talk of donuts got me thinking: How many of y'all have had a Pączki? (The closest pronounciation I can think of is "poonch-key," but that's my Midwest nasal trying to pronounce a language I don't speak!) Anyway, they're a Polish pastry, similar to a donut, and they're big for Fat Tuesday in West MI, where I grew up. I could never find them in TX (although I had my first King cake there lol). A friend of mine told me there's a local bakery that makes them here, but I couldn't get there by Fat Tuesday. Illnesses kept me at home. :( Anyway, I'm hoping to get some next year, or to find a Polish bakery so I could get some now!
 
Tree City said:
How many of y'all have had a Pączki?
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ME!!! Never heard of them until I met my husband, now I look forward to Paczki Day every year! The bakery by us is swamped on that day... I've learned to preorder so I can avoid the line. When I went this year, a lady said that she had been waiting 45 minutes for her turn. This year we had to prepay when we preordered, so my trip in was MUCH quicker than hers. I just looked it up on one of my old Project Life pages... in 2013 that bakery sold 15,000 paczki for Paczki Day!

 
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I want one now too! How hard is it to make them? You fry them? DH has a fryer... but we rarely use it, lol! When we did, we made tortilla chips, haha!
 
When I could eat "normal" donuts I couldn't get enough of the Buttermilk Old Fashioned. I loved those things! When I moved to the DC area I found the next best thing, the chocolate covered glazed raised from (the now closed) Montgomery Donuts in Maryland. Yumyumyum.

Now, due to my myriad dietary restrictions, I have found only one place that makes good-tasting donuts that I can eat, and that is the Doughnut Dilemma Bakery in Burlington, VT. They have a gluten-, soy-, and nut-free Maple donut that is out of this world good. I discovered them two years ago, and it was the first donut I had eaten in four years. I was in sheer heaven! Unfortunately, I'm a mere 10-hour drive away from the bakery so I only get them once a year. But they are so worth it!
 
Now I want a Pączki.... oi!

1. Powdered bavarian cream filled! :D Creme? Either way...
2. Yes, lemon or cream though, not cherry..
3. Mmm.. depending. Powdered sugar donut holes are okay, but they tend to be dry..
4. I'm the bite around the outside so all the dry part is done then savor the cream filled part! :D
5. Here in Minnesota, I haven't really found a place I utterly love, so we just go to the gas station or Hyvee has an amazing selection normally. I miss the Wonder bread outlet, they had the BEST softest, NOT dry donuts when I lived in Texas. Krispy Kreme wasn't bad when we lived in Philly and there was this great hole in the wall bakery in New York when we lived in Sacramento.


I drive my husband nuts, I eat like soup or something heavy for breakfast, like left overs from dinner or something. Where as for lunch I eat like fruit, eggs, donuts or something like that. He says I'm backwards, but it's because of my blood sugar. I need to stabilize in the morning and then I have a solid platform to mess around the rest of the day! lol!
 
I loved seeing other people talk about paczki!
Jews do filled donuts at Chanukah (part of the whole fried food thing). They are called sufganiyot. Nothing fancy, other than a jelly-filled donut. Where there are big Jewish populations, some of the bakeries do crazy flavour combos, as is now the trend. This year, a family friend made some sufganiyot/berliners for us for the 8th night of Chanukah, which happened to also be NYE.

Also, right now it's "Nutella season" at Tim's there are Nutella donuts. It sounds awesome in theory, but personally, I find it a bit much.
 
Serena said:
there was this great hole in the wall bakery in New York when we lived in Sacramento.
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Serena, are you geographically challenged? or has the thought of donuts affected your blood sugar! I have blood work tomorrow and then AFTERWARDS I'm getting a donut!
 
cookingmylife said:
Serena, are you geographically challenged? or has the thought of donuts affected your blood sugar! I have blood work tomorrow and then AFTERWARDS I'm getting a donut!
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LOL!!! I meant Syracuse.. we ALSO lived in Sacramento, but I can't think of any donut places there we liked... I need more caffeine! o.x

Also, I'm COMPLETELY geographically challenged, I haaaaated geography in school. I wrote more notes in that class (you know, the kind for passing to friends) than anything.
 
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