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Definitions

  • Cake: Cake-like consistency. Sometimes with icing or frosting, sometimes rolled in cinnamon sugar.
  • Raised, Yeast or Yeast-raised: Soft, fluffy, airy. Powdered sugar covered or glazed.
  • Jelly: A raised or yeasted donut filled with jam or jelly.

Real donuts are not available within Ann Arbor's innenstadt.

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Potential Donut Sources

BREAKING NEWS CITIZENS: The Circle-K gas station at Packard and Stadium also carries doughy Dexter Bakery treats -- but they're hidden.

Dimo's Deli & Donuts on West Stadium across from the Post Office still use the classic Amy Joy recipes from the late 1960s, and are consistently a favorite once tried.

Classic Amy Joy donuts were available 24/7 in 1974, the zenith of Ann Arbor donut days.

Some citizens are disappointed with the delicious-looking donuts at Washtenaw Dairy because they don't feel like they are true donuts (instead, they say, try a waffle cone instead). Most others love these cake donuts which are now free from all trans fat. Espresso Royale loves them enough for them to sell them to you.

Zingerman's Roadhouse makes donuts. Look at this shit. What's the damage for a roadhouse donut? ($1.25. for one (1) donut) Take advantage of the imploding state economy, liquidate your whatever, have a donut! An embedded nanocorrespondent recommends getting sour cherry preserves with your ZingDonuts (tm), or a mind-blowing apple bacon donut.

Tim Horton's/Wendy's makes what some consider real donuts. But the Tim Hortons in the Michigan League has closed, as has the Broadway location and the only other ones are on Hewitt (Ypsilanti) and Michigan Avenue, in Saline. There's also a 24 hour Tim's on Rawsonville Road south of the I-94 exit - it's nominally in Belleville.

Although there is no local bakery outlet, Krispy Kreme donuts are available at Kroger's and several gas stations, including the Marathon at Maple/Stadium.

  • These donuts are really best at the bakery, when the Hot Now! sign is on.

Hiller's donuts are sourced from Dom Bakeries.

Ypsilanti

Ypsilanti is blessed with better: Dom Bakeries, on Washtenaw, is open 24/7 (cash-only, ATM in lobby); Terry Bakery, on Michigan Ave, also has donuts, but is only open for walk-in sale Thursday-Saturday mornings.

  • What is the name of the bakery next door to the food co-op? Inquiring soon-to-be-Ypsilantarians need to know - River Street Bakery. But no donuts there. (Unless somebody's come up with a whole grain, sourdough donut recipe while I wasn't looking?) A nice variety of donuts available in a Donut Shop on the south east corner of Huron & Spring same space as the gas station.

A Dunkin' Donuts, much to our chagrin, has opened at Hewitt and Ellsworth- just west of Ypsi-proper, just east of the Wal-Mart (circa late 2009).

Saline

Saline's favorite donuts are at Benny's Bakery, though people really line up for their pretzels.

Chelsea

Chelsea residents are known to soothe their donut-starved innenstadt compatriots with donuts from Pierce's Pastries Plus.

In the countryside

The best donuts in the area, better than all urban competitors, are at the orchards, like the Dexter Cider Mill, Wasem Fruit Farm or Wiards Orchard. The Dexter Cider Mill fries their own on-site, so you walk away with bag of hot, greasy, fried delicious-ness. They come with either cinnamon sugar or some glaze. Cinnamon is recommended, as is a jug of cold cider. Wasem's has a donut making machine in plain sight, with the full-fat glory of the process revealed to all. You can smell the donuts cooking fresh daily as you enter Wiard's Orchard country store. Enjoy one of the many home made varieties.

In the far, far away land of Stockbridge, you can also expect delicious old-lady-crafted donuts from Gee Farms; enjoy them while you plan your landscaping.

Lev's Bakery in Tecumseh gets a nod, if you are that far south.

Enormous metal donuts

Tilted Donut with S (2006) by Fletcher Benton graces the south lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building.

Gone but not forgotten

Paula's Place was the closest source for Dexter Bakery imports, but she closed her doors in 2010.

Campus Donut Cafe was a short lived 24 hour donut place on E. William St; it opened in 2000, won "Best New Business" from the Daily, and closed within the year.

A grainy black and white photo of D'Donut Whole is all that is left from that 1972 business.

The Quality Bakery was loved for its sour cream donuts.

Donut-Time USA dates from 1974; little is known about it, except that it's gone now.

The bakery of James Clark in Ypsilanti faced a donut-related fire in 1908:

Geo. Renton, the baker, was making doughnuts, when the grease caught fire. In attempting to put the fire out, the kettle containing several gallons of boiling grease was tipped over. The burning grease spread rapidly, and in a minute the whole room was ablaze. The fire department responded promptly and soon had the fire under control.


Does anyone know anything about Weir's Donut Shop that was on E.Hoover near Brown St in Ann Arbor around the 1920's or 1930's? It later became the University Creamery. I saw it listed in the Polk Directories, but can't find any other info on it.

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