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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 ...
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.
Jam doughnuts are especially popular, with a derivative variety using vanilla custard as the filling also commonplace. In some parts of Scotland, ring doughnuts are referred to as doughrings, with the term doughnut being reserved exclusively for the nut–shaped variety. Glazed, twisted rope–shaped doughnuts are known as yum–yums.
Variations on a traditional sour cream doughnut include using a maple glaze with a sugar-walnut streusel. [3] Another variation is a chocolate sour cream doughnut with a chocolate orange glaze. [4]
A tiger tail donut (also called tiger tail doughnut or simply tiger tail) is a donut that is twisted with another ingredient so that it looks like the tail of a tiger. This other ingredient may vary; examples include chocolate; [1] chocolate-flavoured dough; [2] a combination of chocolate and cinnamon; [3] and a combination of cinnamon, apples, and coconut. [4]
Main ingredients: Dough, and glaze or icing: ... Long Johns are called bars or bar doughnuts, such as the maple bar (topped with a maple glaze [5] [6]) and the ...
Potato doughnuts share similar ingredients to normal doughnuts, but have all or most of the flour replaced with either mashed potatoes [14] or potato starch. [15]Potato doughnuts tend to be a light, fluffy variety of doughnut [16] and are usually topped with the same variety of frosting or toppings as other doughnuts. [16]
Hawaiian malasadas with various fillings. In 1878, Portuguese laborers from Madeira and the Azores started to immigrate to Hawaii to work on the plantations. [7] They brought with them their traditional foods, including fried doughnuts they called malassadas ― now commonly spelled as malasadas.