List of doughnut varieties

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The following is a list of doughnut varieties.

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[edit] Variations and specialties by region

[edit] Controversial doughnut-related items

Doughnut-related items excluded from the above list on the grounds of controversy:

+: doughnut-like feature(s)
━: potentially excluding feature(s)
  • Australia - Savoury donut:
    • +: made from ring of dough
    • ━: not sweet, 'single source': Donut Delirium. They also make Donut Burgers, which might be excluded for similar reasons.
  • France - Profiterole
    • +: cream-filled hollow ball of sweet pastry
    • ━: not usually fried, special thin non-doughnut-like (Choux) pastry, seen as being in a category of its own (similar issues apply to the chocolate eclair)
  • India - Wada or Vadai
    • +: made from ring of dough
    • ━: savoury not sweet, made from lentils (so not really made from dough or pastry), not necessarily fried
  • Malaysia - Kaya ball
    • +: deep-fried ball of dough
    • ━: coconut-containing kaya-dough would not necessarily be universally accepted as being 'dough'
  • Scotland - Deep-fried Mars bar
    • +: deep-fried sweet snack
    • ━: unusual shape and absence of dough or other pastry. See also other "deep fried branded snacks", of which this may be the most notorious, like deep fried Twinkie, Snickers, Milky Way. Considering any of these to be included in the doughnut variety category might be controversial, although they certainly fit within the fried dough foods category.
  • Switzerland (Zürich) - Malakoffs, also called Käseschnitte:
    • +: made from dough
    • ━: savoury not sweet (made from Gruyere cheese)
  • USA - Bagel
    • +: made from ring of dough
    • ━: most varieties are savoury not sweet, not usually fried
  • USA - Fudge puppy
    • +: sweet fried dough
    • ━: served as a 'combination item' composed of a split-open tubular 'eclair' of fried dough 'dressed' with ice cream, cream and chocolate sauce; also the dough/pastry is claimed to be 'waffle style', which does not put it in the same category as doughnuts
  • USA - Funnel cake
    • +: made from fried sweet dough
    • ━: not shaped like a ball or ring

[edit] Not-so-controversial doughnut-related exclusions

There are no general claims that the following doughnut-related-items are 'kinds of doughnuts' although they are doughnut-like in two crucial senses: they are 'toroidal in shape' and are treated as being food and in some cases are (or can be) served fried, but are not commonly (and/or historically) explicitly described, referred to, and accepted (and/or, where appropriate, translated) as a doughnut, or type of doughnut

  • Large ring-shaped cakes (although size-limits which differentiate these from doughnuts seem arbitrary)
  • Fried squid rings (calamari) or any other food item whose shape is rendered into a toroidal shape by slicing it into sections (whether fried or not)
  • Cheerios (and other toroid-shaped breakfast cereals, although it is conceivable that sufficiently small ring doughnuts could be packaged or consumed as a breakfast cereal)
  • Hula Hoops (the branded snack and other similar types of branded snacks made out of extruded corn or potato paste)
  • Jam Rings (and other toroid-shaped cookies or biscuits, although certain products described as cookies or biscuits can be prepared by being fried, so could conceivably be categorised as doughnuts)
  • Pitted olives or any other food item (other than dough) whose shape is rendered into a toroidal shape by making a hole through it (whether fried or not)
  • Onion rings
  • Spaghetti hoops or other toroid-shaped pasta
  • Ring-shaped terrines of pâté
  • Pineapple rings (although ring-shaped pineapple fritters might potentially be more controversial)
  • Polo mints
  • Ring-shaped Pretzels
  • 'Figure-of-eight-shaped' pretzels may also seem irrelevant to doughnuts, but because there exists a 'figure-of-eight-shaped' variety of doughnut (yum-yums, for instance are braided) then the sweet-flavoured figure of eight-shaped variety of large soft pretzels, especially if they were deep fried, could almost certainly be categorised as a type of doughnut.
  • Tolko cheese rings

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