Where to find Queensland’s best doughnuts

Whether you like yours stuffed to the brim with jam, layered with lollies or simply dusted with cinnamon, here are the Sunshine State’s best doughnuts.

Doughnuts are the ultimate wholly treat.

With myriad varieties available including yeast, cake, glazed and jam-filled, they have become loved by more than just the cops and Homer Simpson.

Now we can reveal where to buy the best versions across Queensland.

From Nutella-smeared incarnations filled full of coffee to hand rolled editions in flavours like baklava and apple crumble, here are the top five doughnuts in the state as voted by you – the readers, as well as chefs, foodies and delicious. writers in our inaugural delicious. 100 Best of the Best.

Have your say on which of the final five deserves to be crowned Queensland’s No.1 doughnut in our reader vote at delicious100.com.au

Voting closes on November 3.

KENILWORTH COUNTRY BAKERY

Kenilworth, Mooloolaba

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Doughnuts from Kenilworth Country Bakery in Kenilworth.

Constantly innovating, Kenilworth Bakery are the originators of a 1kg doughnut challenge (eat this jammy bad boy in one go and you get it free), a Gaytime and lemon meringue version, and a hollowed-out, Nutella smeared-doughnut that gets filled with locally-roasted coffee. A deliciously efficient way to have your coffee and breakfast.

FLOUR & CHOCOLATE

Morningside, Redcliffe, Northgate

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Flour and Chocolate doughnuts.

On Flour and Chocolate’s sweet treat weekly calendar, Wednesdays are doughnut day. In addition to the bakery’s soft, European-style filled doughnuts, owner/baker Lachlan Scott dreams up some special “get ’em before they’re gone” flavours, such as peaches and cream, Milo, Persian love cake, Caramilk fudge, apple crumble and pina colada.

GALACTIC DOUGHNUTS

Townsville, Rockhampton, Fortitude Valley, Toowoomba, Caloundra, Morayfield

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Galactic doughnuts.

Doughnut lovers can explore more than 30 variations at Galactic, with the soft, daily made doughnuts filled with creams and custards, glazed and garlanded with icing, lollies and biscuits, festooned with fruit or dusted with sugar snow, coconut or sprinkles. Even traditionalists will find a fit, with a classic cinnamon option.

PADDOCK BAKERY

20 Hibiscus Haven, Burleigh Heads

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Doughnuts at Paddock Bakery, Burleigh.

Like everything else they do, Paddock Bakery’s doughnuts are pure class. Crack the glassy sugar top of a creme brulee doughnut to dig into delicious custard, enjoy the salty crunch of the pretzel crumb atop a salted caramel or the joy of popping candy on your tongue with the “Nutella bot”. They also pump out a cinnamon-dusted ring doughnut all day.

DOUGHLUXE

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Doughluxe doughnuts.

With no shopfront to look after and a razor-sharp focus on a single sweet, the Doughluxe chefs have time to handroll and slow-rise each doughnut, as well as time to dream up new flavours. All their doughnuts are prepared in small batches and offered in short, often seasonal runs in combinations like mandarin curd meringue, hazelnut and baklava, or apple crumble.