# The Maple Donut. It is my opinion that there is no better donut in the world. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973 "2019-06-24T16:08:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/41 "2019-06-25T17:33:05Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > With or without bacon? > [@ftg](#): > > Chocolate glazed donut first. Maple bar second. (But that’s a rarity around here.) The bacon has to be ON the doughnut, not IN the doughnut. Just a sprinkling of crunchy well-cooked bacony goodness sticking t the glaze on top. If I could ever find a place that put actual chocolate in or on a doughnut, I would probably change my allegiance. But every “chocolate” glazed I’ve ever had just tasted like sugary glaze with brown coloring in it. And the chocolate filled ones were like jello pudding. No chocolate flavor whatsoever. The very best doughnut I’ve ever tasted had a vanilla cream filling with actual specks of vanilla bean in it. The doughnut was pate a choux, so I guess technically it was a cro-nut. So delicious. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/42 "2019-06-25T17:50:06Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > You people have never been more wrong. > > Sour cream glazed donuts are the only ones worth the eating. > [@Enright3](#): > > I came in here to add my love of sour cream glazed donuts. I’m glad there’s at least one more of us who know what a really good donut is all about. > [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Another glazed sour cream fan. Back in my donut hunting days I would stare far too long into the nearly empty box at a lonely sour cream doughnut that had been laced with maple goop, eventually to turn away. Hungry. Like a cave man who knew to turn away from a rotting carcass because it was so fouled as to no longer be food. I believe we’ve won this thread. You two go get the donuts while I go get the bourbon. See you in 30. Mods - get the lights. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/43 "2019-06-25T17:57:48Z")
actually, my favorite these days is a glazed buttermilk bar… but the faux winchells makes a great cheesecake muffin which ill take over any donut … ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/44 "2019-06-25T18:24:53Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Yeast or cake? Both. Cake: Blueberry, glazed. Yeast: Maple, glazed and frosted. Dainty: French yeast, double the yeast, glazed and/or frosted. Pakistani heart attack machines: Leaden sour cream cakes, triple dipped in sugar dip so that they were sugar down to the core; I miss them but -125lbs later my body doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/45 "2019-06-25T19:01:05Z")
You are all Heathens. You do not deserve a bite of my Raisin Square. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/46 "2019-06-25T19:40:05Z")
Centuries ago I had a summer job during high school years where the company brought in doughnuts for the morning break, since their plant was too far away from any place you could reach in time and there was no lunchroom. Each day they had two choices, one yeast and one cake, with the same pairing on each given weekday. Thursdays the yeast was a raisin spice cruller. I _lived_ for Thursdays. I’ve never had a doughnut that would hold a candle to those in all the decades since. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/47 "2019-06-26T00:44:39Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > You are all Heathens. You do not deserve a bite of my Raisin Square. Oh dear god. I have seen the face of evil. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/48 "2019-06-26T01:11:56Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > I’m not a fan of maple flavor–I like real maple syrup but that artificial flavor is naaaasty. This exactly. Yucky McYuck. Does anyone even make a naturally flavored maple-glazed doughnut? Tim Horton’s maybe? Surely not bog standard American doughnut joints. The **Invisible Hand** don’t play that shit. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/49 "2019-06-26T11:23:13Z")
I love donuts. There’s only one type of donut I won’t eat: maple glazed. I hate maple in any form, and it’s sad when someone spoils a donut with it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/50 "2019-06-26T16:54:09Z")
For those of you who find yourselves in the Sacramento area, and have strong constitutions, I suggest you drop by here: > **[BAD Bakers - Roseville - Roseville, CA](https://www.yelp.com/biz/bad-bakers-roseville-roseville)** > > Specialties: Bread & Donuts ... It's what we do. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/51 "2019-06-26T22:47:19Z")
I dropped by there today Typo. Yummy donuts! Thanks for the recommendation. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/52 "2019-07-03T01:03:34Z")
My Mother made homemade cake donuts, plain. And they remain my favorite ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/53 "2019-07-03T07:19:27Z")
I like maple dipped a lot, but my favorite is cinnamon crumb. For some reason it’s not carried in many donut shops. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/54 "2019-07-03T19:28:19Z")
I had a cream-filled donut years ago where the cream tasted like it had turned. I haven’t eaten one since, and it kinda “turns” my stomach now even thinking about it. I agree that lots of places only have brown colored glaze on their donuts without any real chocolate taste at all. There’s only one place I know that actually has donuts with a strong chocolate flavor, so I only get chocolate ones there. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/55 "2019-07-04T14:36:49Z")
While I respect the OP’s (wrong) opinion, you can slap maple frosting on any ole donut. No, the most important thing to judge in a donut, is the \* donut\*. That is why the modestly glazed [Old Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnut](https://www.handletheheat.com/old-fashioned-sour-cream-doughnuts/) will always reign supreme. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/56 "2019-07-04T14:43:59Z")
I was just going to say, do not be put off by that picture at the top of my link, where it appears that the donuts are going to be (shudder) BAKED on that sheet pan. Rest assured, the recipe calls for good, old-fashioned frying… ---
**Author:** ![pabstist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pabstist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pabstist)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/57 "2019-07-05T04:11:54Z")
We just had a giant fried dough, covered in maple cream. Made with 100% real maple, since that is all that is allowed by law here in Vermont. I’ve seen threats and fights when regular breakfast syrup is called maple syrup. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/58 "2019-07-05T05:20:57Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I had a cream-filled donut years ago where the cream tasted like it had turned. I haven’t eaten one since, and it kinda “turns” my stomach now even thinking about it. > > I agree that lots of places only have brown colored glaze on their donuts without any real chocolate taste at all. There’s only one place I know that actually has donuts with a strong chocolate flavor, so I only get chocolate ones there. I bought a couple of Bavarian cream filled from a grocery once. One of them had a false fingernail, like a Lee press on, in the cream. It was years before I could bring myself to try another. I agree that the modest sour cream doughnut is at the top. But for a lighter doughnut, the maple is the best, especially if it’s on a cinnamon doughnut. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/59 "2019-07-05T05:42:47Z")
That reminds me: Why is it that, around here, (Northern California) there are no donut shops that serve both good donuts AND good coffee? ---
**Author:** ![CoastalMaineiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973/60 "2019-07-05T06:03:12Z")
It’s hard to beat Dunkin’ Donuts’ Jelly Creme from back in the day when they were actually fresh at the store. Creme-filled and jelly-filled, all in one package. What’s not to like? Oddly enough, outside of a few Dunkin’ Donuts franchises in Maine, nobody seems to even know what they are. When last I checked their website a few years ago, they weren’t even listed as an option. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maple-donut-it-is-my-opinion-that-there-is-no-better-donut-in-the-world/835973.md?page=2)