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Whats your favorite variety of Doughnut? Who bakes 'em?

I like the chocolate iced ones with the frosting filling. I also make my own doughnuts at home out of mashed potatoes and covered in powerded sugar or cinnimon sugar.

An American who can spell Doughnut correctly... I never thought I'd see the day.

I love cinnamon doughnuts, particularly the ones made by the Lions Club, $1 each or 5 for $3.

I also enjoy the sprinkle doughnuts made by Villis and to a lesser extent but still enjoy them the doughnuts made by Dounut King.

An American who can spell Doughnut correctly... I never thought I'd see the day.

I swich between spellings.

I never eat doanutts.

Jam filled.

I never eat doanutts.

Well its a good thing we are talking about doughnuts.

Well its a good thing we are talking about doughnuts.

Ah, I thought you were discussing dohnnatz...

I doughnut like them. Too sweet, and after a couple of small nibbles I'm done and can't eat the rest.

Ah, I thought you were discussing dohnnatz...

Nope just plain, annasuming, everyday, fat and calorie rich, pastries.

Nope just plain, annasuming, everyday, fat and calorie rich, pastries.

Sounds more like Göring then like Dönitz. :D

Sounds more like Göring then like Dönitz. :D

Ok I get the point, there are a million spellings of Doughnut. I'm almost willing to beleive that there are more spellings of the word Doughnut than any other word.

Powdered sugar, no filling.

I love jam filled doughnots, either Strawberry or Raspberry, coated in sugar.

Regular ones?
The ones with no filling and sugar on top.
Them´s those delicious doughnuts.

I could eat ...well, lets just say that I have never eaten myself full of, or getting tired of doughnuts.

I personally like Boston Creme, however it's spelled. Glazed is also good.

Doughnuts rob many Plants of their Lives, in Murderous and torturous ways!!


Ahem...ah, Sorry, lol...When Im in the mood, Classic Krispy Kreme( almost typed Klassic, lmao)...


But I usually shy away from Doughnuts, for some reason they never agree with my stomach...

Ahem...ah, Sorry, lol...When Im in the mood, Classic Krispy Kreme (almost typed Klassic, lmao)...


Those are really good too...

Whats your favorite variety of Doughnut? Who bakes 'em?

I like the chocolate iced ones with the frosting filling. I also make my own doughnuts at home out of mashed potatoes and covered in powerded sugar or cinnimon sugar.
HOW??? How, how, how? How do you make doughnuts out of mashed potatoes? How, damn you? Recipe, please. :D

I love me a doughnut. I like the plain "old fashioneds" and some variations upon the "old fashioned" including chocolate iced, powdered sugar coated, and cinnamon sugar coated. I also like cream-filled doughnuts. I'm not a huge fan of sugar glazing (on doughnuts or anything else) or of fruit/jam-filled doughnuts, but I won't say no to a decent doughnut even if it's filled with jam and then sugar glazed.

The only ones I'll generally pass on are the ones that are so loaded up with coatings and toppings that they are more candy than doughnut. I hate Krispy Kremes, btw, and fell out of love with Dunkin' Donuts when they went low fat and high fructose. There is one doughnut shop that took over the mini-store in the subway station by me in Somerville, Mass, that I think is called "Doughnut-Doughnut" (catchy, especially as I only think that's its name), which makes doughnuts that actually taste like they are made out of food. I pick up a couple of those now and then. And there was this place in Vermont that made old fashioneds with apple cider in the recipe. Man, those were good.

I like the ones with the pink frosting.

HOW??? How, how, how? How do you make doughnuts out of mashed potatoes? How, damn you? Recipe, please. :D


I'll have to dig for it, when I get home at midnight tonight. I'll make you a deal, the cake for the donuts.

Eh, rarely eat them. Pretty much anything goes.

I'll have to dig for it, when I get home at midnight tonight. I'll make you a deal, the cake for the donuts.
Grrr....I don't own the cake recipe... It's not mine to give away. Look, how's this -- You just mail me a mashed potato doughnut, and I'll reverse engineer it.

Grrr....I don't own the cake recipe... It's not mine to give away. Look, how's this. You just mail me a mashed pototo doughnut, and I'll reverse engineer it.

:(


Alright, but only because I like you.

I miss Bess Eaton, and their double chocolate old fashioned doughnuts (chocolate cake doughnut that's glazed, then chocolate frosted). I once had a bet (in college) that I couldn't eat a dozen in one sitting. It took me a while (and a lot of milk), but I did it. I made $20 because of Bess Eaton's double chocolate old fashioned doughnuts. :D

I'm home for a couple hours, so as promised I broke out the recipe, its not the most healthy thing but these are good.

1 cup sugar
1 cup of mashed potatoes with no milk
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
3 tsp baking powder (heaping is ok)
3 cups of flower
2 tblsp butter (or substitute)

Add salt, sugar, and mashed potatoes into bowl and mix together. Beat the eggs separately of the mix and add milk to them, stir until thoroughly mixed. Add the baking powder flower and butter to the potato mix and and pour the milk egg mixture on top, mix thoroughly. (for some reason these do not come out right if you toss it all together in the bowl o.o)

Then you can either pat the dough down and cut doughnut shapes out, or just make small doughnut balls out of it. You deep fry them at 350 degrees F until they turn golden brown and float to the surface. If you want to add powdered sugar or cinnamon to them you should roll them in it as soon as they come out of the deep fryer so that most of it will stick.

This makes a good amount so you might want to adjust more or less.

I'm home for a couple hours, so as promised I broke out the recipe, its not the most healthy thing but these are good.

1 cup sugar
1 cup of mashed potatoes with no milk
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
3 tsp baking powder (heaping is ok)
3 cups of flower
2 tblsp butter (or substitute)

Add salt, sugar, and mashed potatoes into bowl and mix together. Beat the eggs separately of the mix and add milk to them, stir until thoroughly mixed. Add the baking powder flower and butter to the potato mix and and pour the milk egg mixture on top, mix thoroughly. (for some reason these do not come out right if you toss it all together in the bowl o.o)

Then you can either pat the dough down and cut doughnut shapes out, or just make small doughnut balls out of it. You deep fry them at 350 degrees F until they turn golden brown and float to the surface. If you want to add powdered sugar or cinnamon to them you should roll them in it as soon as they come out of the deep fryer so that most of it will stick.

This makes a good amount so you might want to adjust more or less.
Love Fest!!!! :fluffle: Thank you! :D

Love Fest!!!! :fluffle: Thank you! :D

No problem, I like to share recipes... strange thing for a man to admit I know.

I'm home for a couple hours, so as promised I broke out the recipe, its not the most healthy thing but these are good.

1 cup sugar
1 cup of mashed potatoes with no milk
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
3 tsp baking powder (heaping is ok)
3 cups of flower
2 tblsp butter (or substitute)

Add salt, sugar, and mashed potatoes into bowl and mix together. Beat the eggs separately of the mix and add milk to them, stir until thoroughly mixed. Add the baking powder flower and butter to the potato mix and and pour the milk egg mixture on top, mix thoroughly. (for some reason these do not come out right if you toss it all together in the bowl o.o)

Then you can either pat the dough down and cut doughnut shapes out, or just make small doughnut balls out of it. You deep fry them at 350 degrees F until they turn golden brown and float to the surface. If you want to add powdered sugar or cinnamon to them you should roll them in it as soon as they come out of the deep fryer so that most of it will stick.

This makes a good amount so you might want to adjust more or less.

I so wanna try that. But, alas, my mum won't let me.

I am unreasonably fond of doughnuts.

My favorites are the "old fashioned" line. Glazed, chocolate dough and glazed, maple iced, chocolate iced. In my younger days, a stop at Winchell's on payday was standard. A dozen, and four at a sitting with a tall, ice-cold glass of milk. I had to switch to soy to get them out of my diet, because soy and doughnuts do not go together even half as well. Good thing, too, 'cause I'd ballooned to 220 lbs by the time I was 35. 197 now, thanks to soy, yoga and exercise, but still have my doughnutty weakness.

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Mmmmmmm, doooooughnuuts. *drooly noise*

I always had a soft spot for the wee doughnuts at Little Chef.

But, give me a jammy doughnut any day.

Ok, now I got the dogs in and I am truly ready to get some sleep before heading back to work, keep up the doughnutty talk! I'll see you all in 5 hours.

A type of doughnut called "berlinermunk" in Sweden. It is a hole-less doughnut filled most often with vanilla custard, to which I like to add some punsch liqueur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punsch). Very tasty.

Sour Cream Glazed and Walnut Crunch from Tim Hortons. (No they don't have any actual Sour Cream in them, they're just called that for some reason.)

If we're not talking home-baked cider doughnuts from Lancaster, PA, then Krispy Kreme originals, right out of their oven.

After that -- an apple-and-cinnamon "air" donut from Dunkin' Donuts.

An American who can spell Doughnut correctly... I never thought I'd see the day.
There are doughnuts (often bakery or homemade), Donuts (https://www.dunkindonuts.com/) and Donettes (http://www.hostesscakes.com/donettes.asp)(tiny packaged sugar hockey pucks).

There is plenty of precedent for referring to the whole shebang by a brand name -- I believe in the UK they hoover whilst we in the US vacuum. Hoover's a brand name and not a verb in the US.

And there was this place in Vermont that made old fashioneds with apple cider in the recipe. Man, those were good.

Apple cider donuts are the best things in the history of the universe, and high on the list of reasons I need to live in New England again.

Boston cremes, hands down.

Apple cider donuts are the best things in the history of the universe, and high on the list of reasons I need to live in New England again.
So true, but this one place -- The Apple Barn, run by a coop of apple orchards, near Pownell -- made the best I've ever tasted. I'm talking the best versions of a thing that's fabulous to begin with.

hmm... not that fond of doughnuts, but i did like the ones Sainsbury's used to do with chocolate shavings and chocolate glaze on top. they were good.

jam ones are usually pretty meh. they're messy and a bit too sweet.

So true, but this one place -- The Apple Barn, run by a coop of apple orchards, near Pownell -- made the best I've ever tasted. I'm talking the best versions of a thing that's fabulous to begin with.

Pownell? If that city doesn't host an online gaming convention, it should.

I MUST find these apple cider doughnuts.

I like to eat Glazed Doughnuts from Krispy Kreme.

An American who can spell Doughnut correctly... I never thought I'd see the day.

As long as the Donuts are made with real fat, not fake fat. Those lite donuts run right thru you and you'll be up all nite. :p

I like to eat Glazed Doughnuts from Krispy Kreme.

I don't get it. :confused:

Pownell? If that city doesn't host an online gaming convention, it should.

I MUST find these apple cider doughnuts.

The Farmers' market in Manhattan has them regularly. I imagine any other farmers' market would have them too when apples are in season.

Apple fritters. Absolutely nothing from Krispy Kreme, I think their donuts (that's right, I spelled it donuts. Suck it) are godawful. This isn't the run-of-the-mill-rage-against-the-machine hate, they're nasty. They're empty puff, like if cotton candy came in dough form, just awful. And a shit variety, too.

I don't get it. :confused:

Umm...what's to get?

Apple fritters. Absolutely nothing from Krispy Kreme, I think their donuts (that's right, I spelled it donuts. Suck it) are godawful. This isn't the run-of-the-mill-rage-against-the-machine hate, they're nasty. They're empty puff, like if cotton candy came in dough form, just awful. And a shit variety, too.
Thank the gods! I thought I was the only one who is disgusted by those things. The first time I was ever given a Krispy Kreme, it ....deflated...as I took my first bite. DONUTS/doughnuts/whatever DO NOT DEFLATE!!! And then it just...melted.... DONUTS/etc DO NOT MELT!!!

Apple fritters. Absolutely nothing from Krispy Kreme, I think their donuts (that's right, I spelled it donuts. Suck it) are godawful. This isn't the run-of-the-mill-rage-against-the-machine hate, they're nasty. They're empty puff, like if cotton candy came in dough form, just awful. And a shit variety, too.

Thank the gods! I thought I was the only one who is disgusted by those things. The first time I was ever given a Krispy Kreme, it ....deflated...as I took my first bite. DONUTS/doughnuts/whatever DO NOT DEFLATE!!! And then it just...melted.... DONUTS/etc DO NOT MELT!!!

Philistines. ;)

Thank the gods! I thought I was the only one who is disgusted by those things. The first time I was ever given a Krispy Kreme, it ....deflated...as I took my first bite. DONUTS/doughnuts/whatever DO NOT DEFLATE!!! And then it just...melted.... DONUTS/etc DO NOT MELT!!!

You won't have to worry about that from my potato doughnuts, they are hail and hardy.

So true, but this one place -- The Apple Barn, run by a coop of apple orchards, near Pownell -- made the best I've ever tasted. I'm talking the best versions of a thing that's fabulous to begin with.

Hee! My favorites also came from an apple orchard near Pownal, but I can't remember the name of it now. It could very well be the same place, and if so, I can't argue. :D

Whats your favorite variety of Doughnut? Who bakes 'em?

I like the chocolate iced ones with the frosting filling. I also make my own doughnuts at home out of mashed potatoes and covered in powerded sugar or cinnimon sugar.

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mashed potatoes? does that really work? interesting, i liked all the doughnuts i've eatenised.
I like jam filling, or toffeeeeee, yum toffee.
ah sugar where would we be without sweet sweet sugar?
more teeth i guess.

>.>
mashed potatoes? does that really work? interesting, i liked all the doughnuts i've eatenised.
I like jam filling, or toffeeeeee, yum toffee.
ah sugar where would we be without sweet sweet sugar?
more teeth i guess.

They work very well if you follow the recipe I posted in this thread, and they taste good.

Krispy Kreme sucks big time!

Try a Shipley's Donuts (http://www.shipleydonuts.ws/) anytime. My personal favs are the coffee cake and glazed chocolate.

That would assume we can all get to Texas.

Hee! My favorites also came from an apple orchard near Pownal, but I can't remember the name of it now. It could very well be the same place, and if so, I can't argue. :D
Pownal [sp]. Thanks. How funny would it be if we had ever been in line for those doughnuts at the same time, both eyeing that last dozen. :D

Pownal [sp]. Thanks. How funny would it be if we had ever been in line for those doughnuts at the same time, both eyeing that last dozen. :D

Yeah, I'm always a little amazed by how small the world can be. :)

Man, now I want some donuts...


I live in a city with 24hour donut access...fortunately there is two miles of ocean between me and donuts that make it not worth it.

Man, now I want some donuts...


I live in a city with 24hour donut access...fortunately there is two miles of ocean between me and donuts that make it not worth it.

I have 24 hour access to about 5 different bakery's donuts, and I don't have any major obstacles to stop me. Fortunatly I have willpower (usually).


I may have to make a trip up north way to see if these donuts in Pownal are as good as people claim.


BTW, anyone whtat tries my little recipe, please let me know how they turn out.

Yeah, I'm always a little amazed by how small the world can be. :)
Entirely too small. We need to vote some people off this island Earth. ;)

Man, now I want some donuts...


I live in a city with 24hour donut access...fortunately there is two miles of ocean between me and donuts that make it not worth it.
You can't swim? :p


BTW, anyone whtat tries my little recipe, please let me know how they turn out.
*suspicious* Don't you know how they turn out?

Entirely too small. We need to vote some people off this island Earth. ;)


You can't swim? :p


*suspicious* Don't you know how they turn out?

Yeah. I just want to know what other people think.

Yeah. I just want to know what other people think.
By the way, is there a particular kind of potato to use for this? I like to mash Yukon Golds. Will they do, or are they too dense?

By the way, is there a particular kind of potato to use for this? I like to mash Yukon Golds. Will they do, or are they too dense?

I've never used anything but regular old potatos. So I can't be too sure.

I've never used anything but regular old potatos. So I can't be too sure.
By regular old potatoes, I'm guessing you mean the big ones with rough brown skin that you can also bake? In other words, Idaho potatoes?

By regular old potatoes, I'm guessing you mean the big ones with rough brown skin that you can also bake? In other words, Idaho potatoes?

Yeah, being the most common and cheapest those are what I buy, I go through a lot of taters. I'm tired and couldn't think of the sub species or whatever they are of potato in the tater kingdom.

Thank the gods! I thought I was the only one who is disgusted by those things. The first time I was ever given a Krispy Kreme, it ....deflated...as I took my first bite. DONUTS/doughnuts/whatever DO NOT DEFLATE!!! And then it just...melted.... DONUTS/etc DO NOT MELT!!!

Behold your new lord and master (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/03/broadcasts/main1680067.shtml).

I seriously wondered if I could get into trouble for that link. It looks like surgical footage at first glance.

Behold your new lord and master (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/03/broadcasts/main1680067.shtml).

I seriously wondered if I could get into trouble for that link. It looks like surgical footage at first glance.

I threw up a little in my mouth when reading the description of that burger. ew.

You won't have to worry about that from my potato doughnuts, they are hail and hardy.

Hail? They're made of frozen precipitation? (Hale...)

I like my donuts like I like my women: warm, fresh and covered in chocolate. :D

I like an "old-fashioned" doughnut. That's what they call them around here, at least. Those are the ones that are round crispy, with a light glaze on them.

I like my donuts like I like my women: warm, fresh and covered in chocolate. :D

You, sir, are a man of impeccable taste.

Boston Cream is nice.

I like an "old-fashioned" doughnut. That's what they call them around here, at least. Those are the ones that are round crispy, with a light glaze on them.

Old fashions are awesome.

Behold your new lord and master (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/03/broadcasts/main1680067.shtml).

I seriously wondered if I could get into trouble for that link. It looks like surgical footage at first glance.
My browser crashed trying to open it. Will it do the same to my gut and arteries?

Hail? They're made of frozen precipitation? (Hale...)
Also, "and hearty" but I didn't want to depress him.

I like an "old-fashioned" doughnut. That's what they call them around here, at least. Those are the ones that are round crispy, with a light glaze on them.
Where I come from, old fashioneds have no glaze or icing. They're just plain.

Sour Cream Glazed and Walnut Crunch from Tim Hortons. (No they don't have any actual Sour Cream in them, they're just called that for some reason.)

I live for Timbits. Especially the glazed ones.

Also, "and hearty" but I didn't want to depress him.

Yeah, I can't spell on Sundays when I am up all Saturday night and work all day long.

Yeah, I can't spell on Sundays when I am up all Saturday night and work all day long.
Hey, at least you typed real words. They weren't the right ones, but they were still better than most of what you see on the tubes. :D

Hey, at least you typed real words. They weren't the right ones, but they were still better than most of what you see on the tubes. :D

I always use real words.

Apple fritters. Absolutely nothing from Krispy Kreme, I think their donuts (that's right, I spelled it donuts. Suck it) are godawful. This isn't the run-of-the-mill-rage-against-the-machine hate, they're nasty. They're empty puff, like if cotton candy came in dough form, just awful. And a shit variety, too.

Ditto, what is it with people and Krispy Kreme? Do they just eat it because of the name and it makes them think they are cool? Nothing worse than wannabe yuppies. Same with IKEA why do people travel from out of town just to attend a cheap furniture store (where you have to make it yourself) grand opening?