How to Make Homemade Donuts that Beat Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' | What's Eating Dan?

[@DanielJSouza]

I hope I didn't sway the voting too much (yeasted are best), because I want everyone's vote (for yeasted) to count.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

You didn’t sway the vote at all lol

[@KitarraChaosWeaver]

Neither! Donuts are revolting. The smell of donuts frying is awful. I can't even walk near a donutshop! NoNoNoNoNO! I mean...I don't like deep fried food in general but that weird combination of sugar and flour frying in fat is particularly revolting. Perhaps because I didn't grow up with them or because it's genetic....I don't know but ....no thank you!

[@vantecordell1379]

Definitely yeast. Although I do love a blueberry cake donut

[@susansparke3462]

Whenever there was a box of doughnuts at work, the cake doughnuts were always last to be eaten, if they were eaten at all. Poor lonely little cake doughnuts didn't feel the love. As a Californian, I do feel cheated that we don't have the seasonal Cider Doughnuts that I've been hearing about over the last few years because I love Spiced Apple Cider! The doughnuts must be a real treat! P.S. I thought that the coffee glaze in the video was a classic maple glaze at first.

[@wickedcabinboy]

@@KitarraChaosWeaver - Good! That means more donuts for me!

[@jankonzer9248]

Yeasted all the way. Yay, Krispy Kreme!! Maybe because we don’t have one within 150 miles, we don’t get them often

[@denisegaylord382]

You know that they have a website? They also do school fund raisers, js.... I bet you can have them shipped...😉

[@lindabradford9591]

Us either. The Krispy kreme by us closed down, boo.

[@fannyfreckle]

Yeasted! (Feel free to count my vote more than once.) I never had a deep love of Dunkin’ (grew up with these) or donuts in general until having Krispy Kreme. It used to be that KrispyK turned on the HOT sign and would even sometimes give you a free fresh donut right out of the glaze! Nothing like it. ❤️ BUT ALSO…if you have the creme filled, that filling is currently the closest thing I’ve tasted to the real Hostess filling in the 70’s (these days Hostess filling is some kind of nasty lard). So the filly KrispyK’s are what provide childhood memories…and THAT is my emotional support ring!

[@RickWeberEcon]

If I’m at an old fashioned doughnut place, a sour cream old fashioned cake doughnut is perfection itself. On the other hand, a fresh yeasted maple dip is pretty much guaranteed to calm me down from any problem.

[@runninfoo51]

I feel you Rick. Those are my two favs, in that order!!! So glad I'm not alone :)

[@kimberlyward5963]

Maple dipped are underrated! I prefer those over chocolate dipped.

[@blucheer8743]

Yep

[@aaronlangworthy3047]

Old fashioned with maple flavored frosting/glaze. Warm and crispy. Still remember 20 years later from a bakery in florida.

[@sunnybayliss3221]

Amen Rick!!!

[@barbtaylor3285]

I was a Donut Fryer for over 10 years and I never got tired of donuts but can I really say which is my favorite donut: cake or yeast? No, some days I want a soft yummy cake donut with chocolate glaze and sprinkles and some days I crave a glazed fluffy yeast donut. I love Both! Sorry Dan, I can’t decide. But sometimes I really want a yeast donut with Bavarian cream filling and chocolate icing .

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

9:30 I remember following a Japanese bread dough recipe for the first time and adding the softened butter. The instructions literally said, "It's gonna look like you messed up. It's gonna look unrecoverable. This is PERFECTLY NORMAL, KEEP KNEADING." And the writer was right, the bread was delicious, albeit exhausting to make.

[@leehelmick4065]

Only on special occasions do I buy fresh donuts. But when I do, I start with 1 sugar yeasted raised and finish with a plain cake. YUM 😋

[@curtyv]

When it comes to cake vs yeasted donuts, I choose Dan. Seriously, this series is so good. Please make more

[@RC_723]

Yeasted emotional support rings all the way. I had a similar experience as a child going to Krispy Kreme for the first time and seeing the massive doughnut machine pump out freshly made batches. Changed my life forever.

[@MsMollyson]

Cake forever 🍩🍩

[@mrscms831]

and not to mention they gave you a freebie right off the belt!!

[@MelanieH1422]

@@mrscms831 wow so glad to see someone else remembers this! I, too, recall the love of my local Krispy Kreme… the best donuts around. And that hot, fresh, free bonus donut… man, Nothing compares to that

[@tropnevad]

I grew up with Krispy Kreme, so that's just what I thought all donuts were like. When I grew up and had Dunkin Donuts for the first time, I wondered who would debase themselves enough to eat those sad, dry rings. Yeasted donuts all day long.

[@lillianvaldi7669]

Both yummy😳

[@katedarnell3720]

Dan, please don't EVER stop making your videos. I literally laugh outloud and always learn great cooking technique. You are just the best. And yes, yeasted are the best too!

[@stevecagle2317]

Team Yeasted here! Wonderful childhood memory was when Mom, coming home from night shift nurse at IU Med center, would stop at the famous Long's Bakery in Indianapolis for a dozen hot, fresh glazed. They would still be warm when she got home and woke me up for school. KKs are greasy gut bombs by comparison! 😋🤤

[@joannej4952]

❤️My Polish grandma ❤ was a baker and baked every day. Her specialty was yeasted donuts filled with prune filling and rolled in granulated sugar. Heaven on earth! My vote is yeasted always!

[@weston.weston]

Dan, We all ❤ you. Oh my goodness, your segments are so educational, entertaining and endearing. I enjoy every minute of your videos, the subtle humor and charisma are perfect. 👌 We're so happy you're here!

[@DanielJSouza]

Wow, thank you so much!

[@cynthiavalenzuela5149]

Love a fresh cake donut with specks of nutmeg. I'm a West Coast girl and our yeast donuts are high and fluffy, and that is delicious! Krispy Kreme donuts are dense and they train the staff to pull them out before a white ring forms. Not a fan. We still have a few Winchell's here and they have yeast donuts that are very high and fluffy. Yummy!

[@beelinekhan460]

yeasted, always! i am Austrian and we love our Krapfen filled with apricot marmalade flavored with a hint of dark rum. heaven 😋🥰

[@poeticallyincorrect]

Yeasted all day! This is the most Dan episode of What's Eating Dan and I LOVE it!!!! 😁😁😁

[@HLR4th]

I prefer the box in front of me…. But having grown up in NY with Dunkin’ Donuts then tried Krispy as an adult, Krispy Kreme was life changing. I don’t think I’ll be able to end the day without buying a dozen after watching this video- Thanks Dan!!!

[@karenhackney9920]

When I was little my dad was transferred to Michigan. There was a little donut shop that had the best ever donuts called Dawn Donuts. I swear they were the best donuts I ever had. Now that I live in Florida, I miss for real cider and donuts.

[@giovannifrancisco9184]

I guess we have same story lol. Mine was a different place mine was Texas..

[@dianahellman9254]

Whoa, that powder to solidify the oil is amazing! Never heard of it before. Very cool!!!

[@katekramer7679]

It's cool, but the less expensive version is cleaning the oil with actual gelatin so you can reuse it

[@DanielJSouza]

Isn't it so cool?

[@shawnehartnett3979]

Cake donuts hands down! Especially when maple frosted in fall.

[@jaylagilbert1754]

Thanks, Dan! This was my favorite video so far! It gives me courage to finally try the yeasted donut recipe from CI magazine.

[@suec440]

Yeasted!!! They are so light and fluffy that you can eat a bunch at one sitting. 🍩❤

[@cl5378]

Yeasted donuts every time. A “Hot Now” flashing sign at Krispy Kreme will draw me in every single time. Love the show!

[@tldarby123]

A doughnut is a donut is a doughnut no matter how it's spelt. And love both caked and yeasted. Cinnamon'ed, glazed, filled - love them all except for sprinkled. Also love fritters - apple, peach, mango, pineapple, etc. Doughnuts/fritters over cake any day as they're my little piece of heaven, oh, and pie! Cheers. Note: doughnut holes in Canada are called TimBits and often just buy those on their own; easier to bring to meetings - a party pack or two, no less.

[@v.k.winner7766]

OK, I'm old! Remember Spudnuts? They were made with potato flour and sold door to door. They were amazing!! Never been anything to beat them. I see you can still find recipes or buy them on Amazon... For today's donuts, I'll take cake over yeast, except for cream filled ones! Great episode! Thanks.

[@robinhays8779]

VK Winner: Check out a guy, B. Dylan Hollis, he loves trying out vintage recipes and has a potato doughnut video! Enjoy!

[@amybettencourt3404]

There is still a spudnuts in Sacramento, CA.

[@karenbergstrand2772]

YES! Used to have them as a kid in Milwaukee, WI. A yeasted donut with chocolate glaze is perfection!

[@DanielJSouza]

Wow, spudnuts sounds amazing.

[@sabrinalafountain2690]

Yeasted only!!! The original glazed fresh hot off the line at Krispy Kreme is possibly the most amazing bite of sweet you'll ever have in your life! They are ethereal.

[@ramtallen]

Since I’m one of the first comments and I’m 100% sure you’ll see this, I think your videos are awesome. I learn so much.

[@DanielJSouza]

Thanks so much!

[@kmlammto]

I grew up in a small PA city that had a local doughnut bakery. While glazed were really good, nothing topped the powdered sugar ones (never cinnamon). These were all yeasted. For fastnacht day, my mother and sisters made the dough while I got to cut them out (I was many years younger than my siblings) and pour the sugar into a bag and shake to coat the doughnuts completely. If I grabbed some that were not yet room temperature, they would come out as a combination of powdered and glazed. My mom did not like them that way but my dad and younger sister both did, me too. My vote: yeasted.

[@marywest7422]

Yeasted doughnuts are it for me, I just love them. Great episode!

[@IThinkThereforeIAm76]

I love both types very much but a sour cream glazed cake doughnut is my all time favourite.

[@oldcrust4741]

If I could only have one type... It would be cake. Many years ago, the culinary program at a college I attended set up a donut fry in a campus parking lot on the last day of Spring quarter. I was on my way home when I smelled the unmistakable aroma of fried dough. Drawn by a force beyond my control, I found myself in the queue to buy a bag of fresh donuts. I purchased a half-dozen piping hot cake donuts, and consumed them all before completing the one mile walk home. I remember it like it was yesterday!

[@reeroo7789]

Yeasted! Loved seeing the "hot donut" sign pop on at Krispy Kreme on Broad Street in Richmond Virginia. That first bite was life changing!

[@gabelstapler19]

Worked at a doughnut shop in college. There are no better donuts than fresh donuts. That's the "magic" of Krispy Kreme, they're pumping out fresh ones all day. Try a day old KK, and it's usually worse than one sold in a traditional shop. My favorite: apple fritters. So many actually crispy bits, while still having the chew of a yeasted doughnut.

[@nickfosley2882]

I'd rather eat a day old krispy kreme than a day old traditional shop cake donut, so freshness is not the be-all and end-all. Any who, my vote is for yeasted

[@Cyrribrae]

Iono. I've loved a day old Krispy Kreme lol

[@nickfosley2882]

@@Cyrribrae Same, but I think they were comparing a day old krispy kreme to a freshly baked donut from a regular donut shop? which was a little weird as a comparison, but I understand what they are trying to say, freshness is going to play a factor, they just used a poor example that made it seem like it was the only factor

[@beastly7518]

Sorry bud, still enjoy a day old KK, just toss it in the microwave for 5 seconds. You're welcome

[@MissJubilee]

Oh yeah. Fresh of either is miles better than day-old, but a day-old cake donut is still good dunked if it hasn’t been ruined by being smothered in frosting, whereas a Krispy Kreme of any age on which the glaze is no longer crisp is worthless. Slimy donuts are just tragic.

[@siggyincr7447]

A light yeasted donut is great when the weather is warm, maybe with a glass of cold milk. When the weather cools down, freshly made apple orchard cake donuts and hot mulled cider is a great combination.

[@SarahRenz59]

I'm a cake donuts gal. I don't mind yeasted donuts, but they're a little too cloyingly sweet for my taste. The full-bodied texture of the cake variety provides a more balanced counterpart to the sweet frosting/topping. My absolute favorite cake donuts are the apple cider donuts you find at farm stands this time of the year -- it's like biting into a sweet cinnamon-y pillow!

[@teaeyedoubleguhur]

It's cider donuts time! I need to go apple picking and get some and also make my own.

[@Corntassels]

I made a plan with my bff to hit up the farm with the best pumpkin patch, draft horses, and apple cider donuts this year. I am so ready for that deliciousness!

[@giovannifrancisco9184]

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[@AltimaNEO]

Yeasted are usually just bland on their own. It's the using that makes them sweet. If anything, cake is sweeter, as it usually has sugar in the batter, whereas yeasted don't have much if any.

[@GoddessNeith]

both. cake (sinkers) and powdered donuts, and raised donuts. YUM.

[@VeretenoVids]

I grew up with my grandmother's cake donuts, so they are the One True Donut. That said, I won't turn up my nose if someone wants to make me yeasted donuts. 😉

[@charlotteskadal6539]

My sister became best friends with the local, late night donut maker in college. Changed our lives for a little while, the extra 'college 15' changed it back! But, yeasted gets my vote every day! Love your videos!

[@michaelgraham3572]

Yeasted. I like yeasted donuts so much more than cake donuts that I won’t even eat a cake donut. My favorite donut is really a beignet.

[@caroldragon7545]

I watched your video again, and the donuts you're making seem to be more like cake than the squishy ones I like best. The best donut texture IMO is a french donut still hot from frying (the ones with a ribbed exterior). They are so full of air you can compress them into a very small glob. I have no idea whether the really soft ones like Boston creams are cake or yeast, but they are the type I prefer along with the french ones.

[@emcarlisle6578]

I try to not to hide my disappointment when someone brings a cake donut, yeasted definitely win in my book!

[@more444store6]

Yes, I feel the same. If someone offered me a cake doughnut, I might gag, and I'm pretty sure I would not eat it. That being said, they were my husbands favorite kind. Go figure~

[@joec.9591]

Honestly, I have no preference. I love both kinds. After giving it some thought, I do tend to eat the yeasted variety more often, so maybe that's a better qualifier. 🙂

[@vantecordell1379]

I absolutely love Dan. I can’t explain it lol.

[@goudagirl6095]

omg....my aunt used to visit and always brought us glazed, chocolate glazed, and maple glazed (yeast!) donuts from a shop in Lodi, Wisconsin. Light, airy, sweet....HEAVEN with a hole in the middle! Though I DO love me a plain donut to dunk into coffee!

[@TheRationalPi]

Cake donuts all the way! Duck Donuts is the absolute best place for them. Fresh out of the fryer smothered with whatever sweet toppings you want!

[@dreamweaver91]

Cake doughnuts for sure. They're just more dense and rich to me, a perfect dessert.

[@MoonJarGirl1]

Hi Dan!! I love the show! I'm always down for an old fashioned CAKE donut!! Thank you!!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Thank you, Dan, for an entertaining episode as always ❤

[@michelebriere9569]

I once took a tour of a Krispy Kreme kitchen. We got to sample glazed donuts fresh from the glazing machine. Still warm. OMG!! Those things are more addictive than crack!

[@redoorn]

I'm an old guy who enjoys a good cake donut :-) I always learn a little and get a good laugh from Dan.

[@annandrus1967]

Yeasted! When I was a Beaumont, Texas teenager in the '50's, our dating ritual was to attend the 'picture show' , and then after the movie, we would stop by a wonderful family owned donut shop. Right before our eyes, they fried the donuts, dipped it in a marvelous sugar coating, and then served the donut to you -- piping hot. I swear if I could take a Krispy Kreme donuts back in time to that little family owned shop to compare the donuts from my past to the Krispy Kreme of today, they would have the very same taste and texture.

[@PhoenixRevealed]

While I like yeasted doughnuts just fine, almost any cake doughnut beats any yeasted one, especially sour-cream or old-fashioned glazed, but for a true mouth frenzy I seek out a walnut cruller. Orange crullers are #2.

[@martianrobber]

Crullers! ❤

[@trudyshaw5615]

Really dating myself here! Many, many years ago we lived in Long Beach, California and I can remember staying out late (newly married) and going to Winchel's Donuts where you could get a plate of assorted donuts for a $1.00 or so. Not sure what they were but the more I think about it they might have been cake. So much fun, sitting in a shop eating donuts, drinking coffee and having a good time in the wee hours of the morning. This was in the middle 60's.

[@gailneal]

Cake, cake, and cake. Preferably from Dunkin Donuts. I don't get the Krispy Kreme thing... crazy, crazy sweet 😝. Cake donuts: crunchy on the outside, satisfying on the inside - tender with just a hint of sweetness and richness from the frying. A great way to start the day. 😇

[@galaxy_mosaic3587]

yes, I say you cannot beat that texture on the outside vs inside

[@carmencarlton6192]

Yeasted all the way! Have been known to turn down office donuts if they were all cake. My choice of yeasted doughnuts comes from being half-Polish living near Hamtramck, Michigan and celebrating Fat Tuesday with raspberry or prune (plum jam for the faint of heart) filled yeast paczki…especially from New Palace Bakery.

[@rosannecoric]

I can’t make a final call! Warm fresh cake donuts are so incredible…but glazed yeasted really do just go straight to all the pleasure centers in my brain…

[@sus1221]

I think for me it depends...if it's a donut shop, I love a glazed yeasted donut. However, if I get to have a hot donut fresh out of the fryer, I'd go for a cake donut with cinnamon sugar. In my hometown, the local county fair has a donut booth that serves hot donuts made to order. Fair donuts do not have a long shelf life (they turn into oily lumps once cooled), but man, they are WONDERFUL hot.

[@kennedyskip]

Me, Cake all the way, my wife, yeast…. 50 50 in this household. Great episode as always!

[@jackvizzard7203]

Dan … your segment on donuts was FABULOUS !! My vote goes to YEAST donuts. Keep up your great work … it’s ALWAYS fun to listen to you !!!

[@yardburd2000]

Krispy Kreme produces one of the best mass produced fresh chain product. The problem with the donuts is how quickly they become stale and the fact that kk stays the same consistency is incredible

[@janices6370]

Microwave stale KK donuts for 7-8 seconds to refresh. You’re welcome

[@ardendolas]

I lean heavily towards yeasted, especially when picking up donuts, BUT... there's something quite comforting about a homemade cakey donut, with the sugar and cinnamon coat

[@jaygilbreath187]

Being from the south I grew up on Krispy Kreme. Yeasted is my absolute favorite…but…I was introduced to a wonderful cake doughnut when I briefly lived up north in CT (I.e., apple cider doughnuts). While yes I love KK the most, during the fall it just feels right to eat a cider doughnut! So much the season!

[@paulinedudley9656]

yeasted...however, when i was 18 in 1978 I worked in a bakery making donuts and a good, hot buttermilk cake donut is to die for...I'll never forget cranking the donut maker for the cake donuts (it was batter not dough), and flipping cake and yeast with drum sticks over a giant kettle of hot oil

[@AmraphelofShinar]

While yeasted (Krispy Kreme) doughnuts are pretty good, especially custard filled, I really prefer a plain cake doughnut dunked in my coffee. Chocolate iced cake doughnuts are pretty darn good too. Krispy Kreme used to make a devil's food doughnut years ago that was awesome but sadly its long gone. Cake for me, Dan. Sorry.

[@sendoh7x]

Yeasted donuts are not for dunkin I suppose

[@juelzm149]

Both! I absolutely love blueberry cake donuts as well as old fashioned. Buuuttt Krispy Kremes are amazing!! I simply can't choose!

[@1jaxmac]

Yeasted for me but I won’t turn down a good cake donut.

[@purpunknat]

Had the same experience. Grew up with Dunkin Donuts. My fave was Boston creme. In college, I learned about Krispy Kreme when a new store opened up. Life changing. Yeasted for life.

[@wickedcabinboy]

Just a tip for those leftover yeast donuts that have gone a little stale. Ten to 20 seconds in the microwave restores their yummyness (microwaves vary so be careful)

[@misterscottintheway]

Leftover yeast donuts?

[@wickedcabinboy]

@@misterscottintheway - Yeah, it is a thing. Most of my coworkers were young women and they avoided donuts out of concern for their weight (I know, that's weird but what can I say)

[@brandoncarpenter9158]

Definitely yeast. My favorite are homemade maple bars. YUM!! Next time I'm making them with bacon on top.

[@twosocks1976]

Lol... emotional support rings. I am so going to steal that line and use it all the time! Seriously though, Dan is absolutely correct, yeasted Donuts are definitely the way to go! I don't have anything against a cake donut, and I enjoy them rather often. But the extra chewiness and density of a yeast donut just can't be topped by any other kind. And Krispy Kreme kicks the living crap out of Duncan any day. But it always puzzled me why they call it Krispy kreme. The blueberry cake Donuts are some of the best they sell. I'm just not the biggest fan of the glazed donuts with the plain powdered sugar glaze. I'd much rather have maple or chocolate. What I want to know is this. Where the hell do I get one of those donut cutters that makes the ring shape? When I last looked, I couldn't find one.

[@jacquelynmouritsenabbott9980]

Grilled cheese donuts are so good. Did them for my birthday one year. Prefer it with butterkäse.

[@CHess-jp3zh]

I'm definitely a cake donuts person. Chocolate cake and blueberry cake donuts are my top two, for sure. However, I'd be lying if I said I'd ever turned my nose up at a good yeast donut. Maple glaze yeast donuts get my number 3 spot. Donuts are just good.

[@sudhagangundi]

Yeasted donuts 🍩 aka Pillows of heaven. Having said that, I would never refuse a cake donut and hurt the person’s feelings.😄 Our whole family loves your educational, smart, and funny videos. We learn and laugh along the way. Please keep ‘em coming!

[@stevef.8708]

Dan, always great content! Have you ever had an “Old Fashioned”? It’s obviously a cake doughnut, but what makes them so incredibly awesome compared to “normal” cake doughnuts?

[@Corntassels]

Yeasted. There is nothing like a fresh and warm raised glazed donut. That being said, I super appreciate a plain cake donut that's crispy in the center and warm. It is my go-to now that I'm trying to consume less sugar. I am lucky to live in a town with multiple mom and pop donut shops that are all highly capable. Thanks for the deep dive on donuts!

[@Bill_N_ATX]

I grew up in the Houston area. That means I’m a Shipley’s donuts man. A yeasted donut that especially when fresh and hot is food nirvana. They are more substantial than Kristy Kremes. Of course, they do cake donuts too. And Kolaches, which are another breakfast option that’s endemic to Texas. Their’s aren’t the best, but they are serviceable. Without regard, give me a Shipleys any day. I’m aware there are other local and regional options across the nation. Randy’s in LA for instance. Their hot donuts ain’t bad either.

[@robb5706]

Their glazed chocolate donuts were the best!

[@denisegaylord382]

Oh, Kolaches.... I occasionally make them my self. But only when I am going to have a crowd for brunch. Lead me not into temptation... I can find it all by myself...

[@nadeenkatz376]

Shipley is my all-time favorite!

[@mercygrrl]

B&B Donuts on lower Westheimer has wonderful blueberry cake & maple cake donuts to chase down their boudin kolaches. Pre-Covid days, they would bag up some gratis donut holes [cake] with your breakfast order.

[@TitoTimTravels]

I like Shipley, but being from Dallas I grew up on Southern Maid more. They are the best (to me). I was probably 18 or 19 before Shipley came to my neighborhood. I really never cared for Krispy Kreme. Too much lard, maybe? 😎

[@laurarees1714]

Yeast doughnuts all the way! So glad to see you, Dan! You are aHOOT!

[@stevef.8708]

I can’t decide between yeasted and cake doughnuts. I love them both. Really depends on my mood and appetite as to which one (or both) I’ll get.

[@theclumsychord]

That oil solidifying powder is amazing. (I probably still won't fry things though.) I like yeasted donuts best when they're super fresh, but otherwise I like a glazed chocolate cake donut.

[@pageandpetals]

The gags in these videos are so good. 😂 I'm not native to the Boston area, so I don't get the local fascination with Dunkin', but I've lived in Somerville for seven years now, and we have an embarrassment of riches in this town when it comes to yeasted donuts. I can't help but pop into Union Square Donuts every few months to buy myself two or three that I then have to try not to eat all in one afternoon. I don't mind a cake donut now and then, too-I love an apple cider cake donut when fall rolls around, and I'm also a sucker for those Entenmann's cinnamon-powdered-sugar-dusted mini donuts.

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[@Troy-McClure81]

Winchell''s is what we grew up with out west,when Dunkin and Kreme came to Vegas I've never been so disappointed...Yeast for glazed and Cake for chocolate 🍩

[@TheNinnyfee]

I vote for whatever donut supports you emotionally. ❤️ My favourite is yeasted, but whatever donut puts a smile in your face.

[@marapeters9144]

Yeasted are the best. Making donuts is on my list of things to do

[@Str8angelStorm]

YEASTED all the way!!! Shipley's Do-nuts were the best, but they're mostly located in the South so I may actually have to try the yeasted recipe.

[@AudeKhatru]

My favorite is a specific type of cake donut, sometimes called and Old Fashioned, and sometimes, a Sour Cream donut. These donuts sort of burst along the upper edge, creating a bit of extra crunchy crust that I love a lot. Second to those are crullers, which are yeast donuts. After that, my third favorite is the last resting place for the yeasted dough...the Apple fritter. Also, I spent a single day as a donut maker, and the cake donuts were done from a liquid batter, exactly like a cake batter and dropped into the oil with a special machine that dropped perfect circles of dough/batter...they were definitely not rolled and cut.

[@leanewohlgemuth8342]

Sour cream glazed. But my all time favorite are cruellers

[@valliarlette6596]

Yeasted! We made them in cooking school, and I still consider that one of my most satisfying experiences.

[@artisticstefan]

Definitely old fashioned sour cream cake doughnut. With that said I have to admit that I’m in heaven with any type of FRESH doughnut!

[@tessam11]

Yeasted donuts all the way! I grew up 15 min from a Krispy Kreme (aka extremely blessed) so I’ve grown up on their hot n ready glazed donuts (and other flavors too of course). NOTHING beats a hot n ready krispy kreme

[@Macknzie]

Cake in a heartbeat.

[@wendytube007]

I agree with you about Yeasted versus cake but the one proviso is Honey doughnuts here in Vancouver Canada on the north shore. They’re not just cake donuts they’re pound cake donuts with my favourite flavour, a lightly sweetened ganache topping and it is the best thing you’ll ever taste! And I found that oil solidifier about 10 years ago at The Japanese international store Daiso and it literally changes your life when it comes to frying. No more fear as to what to do with your waste oil PS by the way if you are struggling to get rid of a small amount of oil rolled oats works great and you can pop it in the compost.

[@more444store6]

My husband preferred Cake doughnuts and I prefer Yeasted doughnuts. So, yes, it really is a tie!

[@sandinamia]

Neither! I love crullers, which are choux pastry, ie, non-yeasted, but also non-cake, and these are my favorites because they are sweet but not way overboard in the sugar dept. If you have an "Asian sweet tooth," you would agree. I also like the glazed croissants at HEB supermarkets, which are obviously yeasted. (Side note: I bet the glazed croissants are day-old and stale and repurposed into the donut bin by merely tossing them in sugar glaze. Anyway, bring them home and toast/bake them briefly until the glaze melts into a lightly crispy, crunchy exterior. A perfect contrast to the pillowy, buttery interior. Yum! I wonder if anyone will export this idea to Paris?) Excepting my preference for crullers and croissants, Krispy Kreme beats Dunkin Donuts any day *after scraping off the extra glaze topping) because Krispy Kreme are freshly fried in-store. But I do enjoy the matcha lattes at DD.

[@marlenevega8522]

Love love yeast doughnuts

[@tonycolle8699]

As a North Carolina resident, I was blessed with Krispy Kreme donuts years before other people knew they existed. They rule

[@kellerarnold4738]

Yeasted! I grew up in the south and remember watching the Krispy Kreme donut line through the big glass windows and eating them piping hot!

[@xavierbastida790]

Omg him glazing those donuts, with just his fingers 🤤

[@paulaphillips160]

Oh, my favorites are definitely yeasted donuts! I grew up in central NC, and hot donuts were available at Krispy Kreme on the regular…yum! I now live in upstate NY, and the nearest Krispy Kreme is almost 2 hours away! 😢 I guess I will have to use your recipe to make my own!

[@bettybauman5958]

Cake, cake, and more cake! They stay fresher tasting than yeast. Instead of nutmeg, try cardamom... So delicious.