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[coraa]

Just curiosity....

Definitions: a raised doughnut is made with a yeasted dough. It tends to be puffier and more tender but also chewier, with less sweetness in the doughnut itself and most of the sweetness coming from the glaze, topping, or filling. A cake doughnut is made with a cakelike, baking-powder raised dough. It tends to be denser and more crumbly, with a sweet, cakelike flavor and texture.

Do you prefer...

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[ceph.livejournal.com]

Raised donut with chocolate glaze, for preference. When I was a kid my parents would get me one of those bar-shaped chocolate-glazed donuts (we called them Long Johns, but I don't know how widespread that terminology is) when we went grocery shopping.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

We called them Chocolate Bars, which in retrospect might've been confusing but in practice wasn't. (They were named in relation to the much more common Maple Bars, which were the same but with a mapley sugar glaze. I think it might be an overdose on maple bars that put me off raised doughnuts. They always make me think of hot dog buns with sweet glaze on.)

[thumbie.livejournal.com]

I have never been a fan of things resembling pastries. Cake is so much better than everything else in the universe and I was always shocked at dorm meetings when everyone would eagerly take the raised donuts and I'd have my pick of the awesome sprinkled cakey ones.

[willworker.livejournal.com]

I feel like for donuts, it's supposed to be light and fluffy and cake-like. While raised donuts can be nice, I feel the cake style are truer to my conception of "donut."

Steve

[dancambull.livejournal.com]

I like homemade raised donuts, but if I am buying them, I like cake ones, especially the apple cider ones that are prevalent in NY

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Crullers, actually... I eat cake donuts only in the autumn. With cider. The rest of the time I like raised. Especially the twisty kind (crullers, right?) which no one seems to make anymore.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

In general, cake donuts.

In particular, raised ones with custard filling and chocolate glaze/frosting on top. But that's not a donut, that's an experience. (Boston Cremes they seem to be called in round form, but in the north woods where I was partially raised, they were always long & rectangular and were called Long Johns.)

[mbrubeck.livejournal.com]

Cake, but it's harder to find good cake donuts than good raised donuts. (They have to be really fresh.)

[shelleycat.livejournal.com]

When it comes to donuts nothing beats glazed raised for me. I'm a huge cake fan when it's actual cake, but not when it's cake donuts. Cake donuts never get as light and flavorful a crumb as my favorite cake recipes. I make a mean chiffon! and my vanilla souffle with chocolate sauce.... light as a whisper.

[kagejim.livejournal.com]

Apparently I'm the only one that finds donuts entirely too sweet and generally icky tasting.