List of doughnut varieties

== List of doughnut varieties ==

Doughnuts, also spelled donuts, are a type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food. They are popular in many countries and are prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets. Below is a list of notable doughnut varieties:

Yeast Doughnuts

• Glazed doughnut: A yeast-leavened doughnut coated with a sweet glaze.
• Jelly doughnut: A doughnut filled with fruit preserves or other sweet fillings such as custard, chocolate, or other sweet fillings.
• Boston cream doughnut: A round, yeast-risen doughnut filled with vanilla custard or crème pâtissière and topped with chocolate icing.
• Maple bar: A rectangular doughnut topped with a maple glaze.

Cake Doughnuts

• Old-fashioned doughnut: A cake doughnut with a cracked surface and a slightly crunchy texture.
• Chocolate cake doughnut: A cake doughnut made with chocolate batter and often topped with chocolate icing or powdered sugar.
• Sour cream doughnut: A cake doughnut made with sour cream, which gives it a moist and tender crumb.

Filled Doughnuts

• Custard doughnut: A doughnut filled with custard or pastry cream.
• Cream-filled doughnut: A doughnut filled with sweetened whipped cream or a cream-like filling.
• Apple fritter: A doughnut made with chopped apples and cinnamon, often glazed or dusted with powdered sugar.

Regional Varieties

• Berliner: A German doughnut without a central hole, filled with jam or other fillings and topped with powdered sugar or icing.
• Beignet: A French-style doughnut, typically square-shaped, fried, and covered with powdered sugar.
• Churro: A Spanish and Latin American fried-dough pastry, often ridged and dusted with sugar or cinnamon.
• Sufganiyah: An Israeli doughnut filled with jelly or custard and topped with powdered sugar, traditionally eaten during Hanukkah.

Other Varieties

• Cruller: A doughnut made from a rectangle of dough, twisted and fried, often topped with a light glaze.
• Long John: A bar-shaped, yeast-risen doughnut, often filled with custard or cream and topped with icing.
• Doughnut hole: The small, round piece of dough that is cut out from the center of a doughnut, often fried and coated with sugar or glaze.

See also

• List of doughnut shops
• List of fried dough foods
• List of breakfast foods
• List of desserts