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The 14 Best Doughnuts, Ranked
Because sometimes a baker’s dozen isn’t enough
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14. Maple bacon
Nope. Gross. Next.
13. Jelly
Not our jam.
12. Old-fashioned
It’s not cake doughnuts we have a problem with — some of our best friends are cake doughnuts — it’s that a naked doughnut is like a will.i.am guest verse. Did anyone ask for it? Did it make anything better? Does anyone even make these things anymore?
11. Sprinkles
We mean, sure. Have sprinkles on your doughnut. But you may want to look inside yourself to see why you do.
10. Eclair
It’s a weird shape. It’s frosted. There’s cream. It’s good, it’s just… a lot to deal with. Like, it verges on Too Much Doughnut.
9. Frosted
With the right frosting and in the sure hands of a competent doughnutier, a frosted doughnut is a transcendent experience. But 60% of the time, it does not work every time. [Note: Doughnutier is not a real word.]
8. Cruller
“Not a doughnut!” you exclaim. Fine, point made. But shout out to the Jewish homies: It’s like a doughnut and a challah had a baby, and we’re willing to raise that lil’ guy like our own.
7. Boston cream
Boston is trash. Its namesake doughnuts, however, are very much not! (Also, if we’re ever in Boston together and you want to go to Dunkin Donuts — which, fine, sure, it’s an institution — just don’t call it “Dunkies.”)
6. Glazed
Yes, it’s a classic. Yes, the lick-your-finger-to-get-the-glazed-bits-off-the-paper routine happens to be the best post-doughnut ritual in all of doughnutdom. But we’re just gonna say it: This is a boring-ass doughnut.
5. Coconut
If you know, you know.
