I’m torn.
I have fond memories of my grandfather picking me up from school and hanging me a brown paper bag containing two chocolate-covered cake donuts from Shirokiya. It was the kind of treat that make dividing decimals bearable.
But my dad loves glazed yeast donuts, and on some special Sundays, there would be a box of them on the kitchen table for breakfast. Sometimes from Liliha Bakery, other times on sticks from another bakery in Manoa.
I grew up on the fence.
A dough is basically fried dough, usually sweet and usually made from a flour dough. You can shape them into rings or stuffed them with cream, jellies and custards or top them — like the ones above from Regal Bakery — with sugar glaze, cinnamon, chocolate, cereal, marshmallows — anything you can think of. You can even bake donuts now.
Most decorated donuts tend to be of the denser cake variety. But yeast donuts have that fluffy, airy texture — like the ones from Kamehameha Bakery, shown here — that we can’t seem to get enough of.
So which is it: cake or yeast?
Or to put it in more specific terms, Dunkin’ Donuts (cake) or Krispy Kreme (yeast)?
Let the Great Debate begin!
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Hello Cat! I’m not choosey, I’ll take both types…
LOL! Somehow I knew you’d say that!
So upset. Today, my husband and I went to Dunkin Donuts drive thru. I wanted a strawberry frosted CAKE donut and they gave me a stupid strawberry GLAZED yeast donut. I was so freakin mad. I was very mad that my husband mistakenly said glazed in the beginning and then changed it and I think it screwed up the guy working there. GEEZ.
DEFINITELY CAKE
Cake. Cake cake cake cake cake. My grandfather had a bakery, and we grew up on his delicious crullers. They tore down his bakery many year ago for a freeway, and I miss those doughnuts so. Cake.
Got a favorite place for cake donuts? I want to learn how to make ’em, actually. Maybe that’s my new Weekend Dish…!
The Chicago Cuz is partial to the cake donuts, mainly because of my childhood and how we would always get them as a treat if we were good. Don’t get me wrong though, I have been known to eat a yeast donut or 12 in my time, but honestly after eating them I just feel bad (mainly because of the sugar).
So my vote on today’s earth shattering topic is CAKE DONUTS!!!!!!
Kudos on the topic today, the brain isnt working so well so this is perfect for me to ponder.
LOL! I know. I think the last two blogs I wrote were a bit heavy, even for me. I needed something light. Could you guess what I was craving???
Hey Cat: … there is no debate … hands down, it’s the yeast doughnuts … called me old-fashioned or just call me old … but a doughnut brings to mind something “light and airy”, whether sugar-coated or glazed … and those chocolate frosted or with swirled chocolate center are fricken awesome too …
… the cake-type doughnuts remind me of Love’s boxed powdered sugar doughnuts … and the cake-type doughnuts just have too much sprinkles and “stuff” on it … looks like a mini cake … c’mon, if I wanted cake – I would eat cake …nawh, they’re ok, just not my preference …
… as I’m sitting here, I could probably eat 10 of those glazed yeast doughnuts … yum … a cake-type doughnut? … 1 would be enough …
… a tough one for me would be … Doughnut vs Malasada … wait a second … is a malasada a type of doughut? … no matter, I’ll take a couple of each please …
I’m impressed how easy it is to pick between the two! I can’t. I keep going back and forth. I love those Love’s powdered (cake) donuts. But I can’t stop eating the chocolate-glazed (yeast) donuts from Kamehameha Bakery, either. It’s a tough call.
Now, donuts vs. malassadas — I’d have to go with my Portuguese heritage there!
Well, they’re both certainly ono, but Cat, those malasadas are Messy with a capital M to eat… granulated sugar everywhere, LOL!
Both!!! Although, I have a special affinity for Cake Donuts, especially the Dunkin’ Donut type… they tend to keep longer, and don’t get all weird after a day or 2… (yes, I can make a dozen donuts last that long in my house) also, I’m a dunker, so the cakey texture of the dunkin’ donut lends itself to sopping up whatever it is i’m drinking at the time, whether it be milk, coffee, or yes, even the occassional dunk into a cold glass of coke… CAKE DONUTS FTW!!!
Cake donut dunker! Maybe that’s another Great Debate topic: do you dunk? I don’t. But that’s because I don’t drink coffee. Not so tasty to dunk donuts in Diet Coke.
I’ve never known a single person to have ever dunked a donut. Maybe it’s regional thing.
yeah the aspartame in dietcoke is gross w/ the real sugar in donuts…
Yeast, Definately. I am with Rayboyjr. If I wanted to eat cake…. doughnuts have to have dough in them no?
So far, the cake donuts lovers are winning this debate.
Guess what I’m having for my pre-lunch meal…!
Cake for me…. more filling.
True, can’t really fill a yeast… Or can you…?
YEAST!!! But I gotta agree with you that Shirokiya’s chocolate-covered cake donuts rock the house!
See? It’s a tough call! I like what Regal Bakery did with its flavored yeast donuts, though, but I think the owner/chef stopped making them because the cake ones were the hot items.
Kake is King. My favorite doughnut of all time is toasted coconut from Dunkin Donuts, but it isn’t one of the top sellers, so some shops have it and some don’t. What is under the sugary mix of beige coconut is a cake doughnut.
Toasted coconut… Mmmm. We don’t have any more Dunkin’ Donuts here anymore, right?
oh my…i never knew der were 2 kinds. *sigh* But, thats ok. its a brave new world out there, and i’m gonna find out all about the different donouts!i really like e-clairs with creamy filling though…
I believe this question needs more testing… so I think I’ll buy a dozen Krispy Kreme and a dozen Dunkin Donuts and evaluate further… But you know a dozen Agnes malassadas would also have to be tested. Do you think I can get a grant to study it?
Even though I can no longer eat them (health reasons), my tried and true favorite are the glazed yeast donuts. Never could get into the cake donuts.
Debates like these can’t be resolved through posts on a blog. Therefore, I suggest a scientific study involving doughnut samples from several different bakeries and a panel of judges to give their opinions. 😆
Sooo…I consider myself to be a bit of an expert when it comes to donuts (LOL) and think that anyone can make a cake donut. Raised donuts are where the artistry comes into play! Regal Donuts’ are the best!
Cake doughnuts from Craig’s Bakery in Kailua. Too bad that place is gone now. Found a good blueberry cake doughnut on the mainland in Escondido, Calif. at Peterson’s Donut Corner. But when it comes down to it, I’d rather have andagi or malasadas.
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Yeast donuts for me. There was a little donut shop somewhere in North Jersey. Owned by a Korean family for many years. They sell all kinds of donuts, special flavors. PBJ donut, filled with peanut-butter & topped with grape jelly. Pumpkin cream in the fall. Pina-colada filled donut topped with coconut in the summer. Pistachio-cream filled in December. Cherry & cream in February. Egg-nog filled all winter. French-toast donuts. Every month they have a special flavor. The specials are usually filled yeast donuts.