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WHERE can you buy the best donuts in Melbourne? Dandenong Market shoppers reckon they’re at Dandee Donuts. Did they get it right? Click to have your say.
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WHERE can you buy the best donuts in Melbourne?
Dandenong Market shoppers reckon they’re at Dandee Donuts.
Owner Susan Bell said the “yeast raised donut” is the secret to their considerable success with customers.
“All the donuts are yeast raised so they are light and fluffy inside,” Ms Bell said.
“We have a baker’s patisserie filling, which is specifically made for cakes and fillings, so it’s different to what you would get at the supermarket and I think it’s what makes our donuts stand out.”
At a free tasting at the Clow St market, shoppers were treated to over 600 samples of Dandee Donuts’ creations.
And each one of them — through big mouthfuls of fluffy donut — gave them the tick of approval as the best donuts in Melbourne.
But we reckon there are some challengers.
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A quick survey of the Leader crew revealed Footscray’s Olympic Donuts are Dandee’s big challenger out west.
Sitting just beside the entrance to Footscray train station in Irving St, this local institution has kept commuters satisfied for more than 30 years.
Donut maestro Nick Tsiligiris sells the crispy, fluffy, jam-filled balls of bliss for just 80c apiece.
They come in two flavours: plain, or with piping hot jam injected to order using Nick’s famed dolphin jam dispenser.
Big Lou’s Donuts, in Brunswick St, Fitzroy, was formed in 2008 by Louis Dimmy, who spent months testing and discovering the the best tasting recipe to offer customers a donut with substance and mouthwatering taste.
“At Big Lou’s we’re BIG on fresh and our donuts are exactly that!!!” its website touts.
West Melbourne’s Doughboys Donuts, at the Mercat Cross Hotel, Queens St, has almost become a tourist attraction, travellers putting it on their to-do lists whenever they hit the city.
Operating from the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne since 1950, The American Doughnut Kitchen’s ’50s style bus has never changed its recipe — and the line is sometimes 25 deep!
And for cinnamon donuts, our Southeast Sports Editor Paul Amy reckons you can’t go past the Asian Bakery at Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre in Mulgrave.
“(They’re) plump as a Christmas turkey, beautifully fluffy and with just the right sugar coating,” he said.
Dandee Donuts has been operating at the Dandenong Market for more than 40 years and since Ms Bell’s father passed away in 2002, she has been running the show.
And she’s planning on bringing out a new range of donut fillings — chocolate, caramel, spiced apple, custard, blueberry jam, lemon curd and Nutella.
“We trialled a range of different flavours at the market and nearly went through 600 samples,” she said.
“I won’t necessarily go ahead with all the flavours, but I will have a look at the surveys people have filled in and make a decision.
“A lot of people have been trying the caramel, but I haven’t heard anyone give me any feedback on it, whereas people say, I love the Nutella or I love the custard.
“I can’t wait to see the results.”
Ms Bell said she hoped to implement the new flavoured fillings in the next two weeks and expects to charge about $1.50 per donut.