There are a lot of great breakfast pastries out there, guys. But none of them, not even the holy of holiest of French pastries -- the croissant -- can stand up next to a good doughnut. We know that the croissant is flaky, buttery and, well, French, but doughnuts are doughy, sugary and, sometimes, chocolate frosted. When you sink your teeth into a freshly-made, still-warm doughnut it tastes like pure joy. Especially when they're homemade.
On National Doughnut Day, a food holiday of the utmost importance, we want everyone to embrace the joy of this pastry and make as many doughnuts at home, from scratch, as possible. While we admit that this is a lot more work than driving to your local Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kreme, you'll be amazed to see that doughnuts are even better than you thought humanly possible.
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Go bake doughnuts -- and finally discover their true greatness.
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Chocolate Glazed Donuts
Jenny Hobick
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Vanilla Cream-Filled Doughnuts
Brown Eyed Baker
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Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnuts
Handle The Heat
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Baked Nutella Doughnuts With Nutella Glaze
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Blackberry Jam & Custard Donuts
The Sugar Hit
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Copycat Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
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Chocolate Cake Donut Holes
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French Toast Doughnuts
Bakingdom
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Dark Chocolate Cake Donuts With A Blood Orange Glaze
Lakyn + Judah
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Peanut Butter Cream Filled Doughnuts
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Chocolate-Frosted Cake Donut
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Baked Vanilla Bean Doughnuts
Cooking Classy
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Donuts With Burnt Caramel And Sea Salt
White On Rice Couple
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Baked Gingerbread Mini Donuts
Pinch of Yum
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Nutella Filled Sugar Donuts
Buns In My Oven
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Cranberry Orange Donuts
Wanna Be A Country Cleaver
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Cinnamon Roll Baked Donuts
Buns In My Oven
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Lavender Donuts With Wild Blueberry Glaze
Kait Turshen/Food52
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Jelly Filled Honey Lemon Doughnuts
Chasing Delicious
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Baked Donuts Rolled In Cinnamon Sugar
Brown Eyed Baker
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Sweet Potato Pecan Pie Doughnuts With Roasted Pecan Crunch
How Sweet It Is
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Brown Butter Glazed Cinnamon Donuts
Buns In My Oven
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Peanut Butter Glazed Brownie Doughnuts
Simply Scratch
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Samoa Mini Doughnuts
Southern FATTY/Food52
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