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Doughnuts in a display case at a coffee shop. A doughnut (sometimes spelt donut in American English; both / ˈ d oʊ n ə t /) is a type of pastry made from leavened fried dough. [1] [2]: 275 It is popular in many countries and is prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty vendors.
The old-fashioned doughnut is a term used for a variety of cake doughnut prepared in the shape of a ring with a cracked surface and tapered edges. [1] While many early cookbooks included recipes for "old-fashioned donuts" that were made with yeast, [2] the distinctive cake doughnuts sold in doughnut shops are made with chemical leavener and may have crisper texture compared to other styles of ...
A doughnut-like snack called Loukoumás comes in two types, a crispy one shaped like the number 8, and a larger, softer one shaped like the number 0. Hawaii – popular doughnut in Hawaii is the Malasada. They were brought to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese laborers from Madeira and the Azores who went to Hawaii to work in the plantations ...
A cruller (/ ˈ k r ʌ l ər /) is a deep-fried pastry popular in parts of Europe and North America. In Europe it is typically either made of a string of dough that is folded over and twisted twice to create its signature shape or is formed from a rectangle of dough with a cut in the center allowing it to be pulled over and through itself to produce distinctive twists in the sides of the pastry.
The German version is made from a yeast dough, deep fried, and coated or dusted in powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar; they may be plain or filled with fruit jam. Pennsylvania Dutch fasnachts can often be potato doughnuts, and may be uncoated, dusted with table sugar, or powdered with confectioner's sugar.
A Long John with sprinkles from Minnesota A cream-filled maple bar doughnut (filled with custard) The Long John is a bar-shaped, yeast risen [1] doughnut either coated entirely with glaze or top-coated with cake icing. They may be filled with custard or cream. The term Long John is used in the Midwestern U.S. [2] and Canada, and has been used ...
The Polish word pączek [ˈpɔ̃t͡ʂɛk] (plural: pączki [ˈpɔ̃t͡ʂkʲi]) is a diminutive of the Polish word pąk "bud". [6] The latter derives from Proto-Slavic *pǫkъ, which may have referred to anything that is round, bulging and about to burst (compare Proto-Slavic *pǫknǫti "to swell, burst"), possibly of ultimately onomatopoeic origin.
In Finland, berliininmunkki (Berlin doughnut) is a commonly consumed pastry, although unlike a traditional Berliner, this variant has pink caramel colored frosting on top as opposed to regular or powdered sugar. In Tromsø, Norway, Berliners are eaten to celebrate the return of the sun at the end of the polar night on January 21.