Melbourne’s 10 best places for doughnuts
Whether they’re artisan and adventurous or old-school and jam-filled, we’re still nuts for doughnuts. Here’s 10 of the city’s best doughnut destinations.
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WHETHER they’re artisan and adventurous, or old-school and jam filled, we’re still nuts for doughnuts.
We track down 10 of the city’s best doughnut destinations.
ALL DAY DONUTS
From Raph Rashid, the man who bought us the Beatbox Kitchen and Taco Truck food vans, comes All Day Donuts.
When he sold 300 doughnuts in 25 minutes at Fitzroy’s Flour Market in 2014, he knew he was on to a winner. These days, get your fix at the biz’s Brunswick shopfront as well as several cafes, with enticing flavours — lime brulee, lemon with poppy glaze, mandarin glaze with chocolate custard and coffee glaze with passionfruit curd and chocolate rubble.
The secret? “We make everything from scratch,” Rashid says, “from our dough and custards to our glazes and sprinkles. We control 100 per cent of the doughnut.”
Top-seller:Strawberry cheesecake ($5)
12 Edward St, Brunswick. alldaydonuts.com
ASCOT FOOD STORE
Main-line some of the sweet stuff with syringe-stabbed beauties here. Pure fruit gels give a less sickly-sweet flavour while the doughnut stays nice and fluffy by adding the filling — salted caramel, peanut-butter anglaise or cereal milk custard to name a few — later via not-so-lethal injection.
Top-seller:White chocolate and raspberry gel with freeze-dried raspberries ($6)
320 Ascot Vale Rd, Moonee Ponds.
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BISTRO MORGAN
What 15-year-old Morgan Hipworth can’t do with doughnuts isn’t worth knowing about.
He’s got 100 flavours in his Bistro Morgan arsenal, which he delivers to a dozen-ish cafes. The year 10 student, who hopes to open his own cafe one day, makes at least 700 treats a week in his parents’ Hughesdale kitchen.
Top-seller:White chocolate raspberry, peppermint crisp, Fruit Loops, salted caramel and lemon curd
($5.50 with syringe, $5 without)
Various cafes. bistromorgan.com.au
CANDIED BAKERY
If the sound of a glazed dulce de leche doughnut with a salted-caramel filling sounds like your cup of tea, go west to Candied Bakery. Salted chocolate, maple and candied bacon, tiramisu and even fairy bread are among the other adventurous delights.
Baker Orlando Artavilla has perfected the dough over several years. “Doughnuts are easy to eat,” Artavilla says. “Just like a meat pie, it only takes one hand to hold one and scoff
it down. They’re fun. You don’t have to feel guilty about eating doughnuts, just happy.”
Top-seller:Vanilla custard ($3.80)
81a Hudsons Rd, Spotswood. candiedbakery.com.au
DANDEE DONUTS
Owner Susan Bell’s parents, Dick and Maureen, started the business in the backyard of their Oakleigh home in the late 1960s with their first van affectionately known as Snoopy. Hot jam doughnuts are still their specialty, and can be found in regular spots in Berwick, Hallam and the Dandenong Market.
Top-seller:Jam doughnuts (six for $6)
Various locations. dandeedonuts.com.au
DOUGHNUT TIME
Creations at this gourmet newcomer come handmade, hearty and immediately Instagram-able. Baked at a kitchen in Richmond, they’re dispatched to two pop-ups and a new city shopfront in Degraves St. Each decadent ring has a shelf life of about four hours.
A new flavour gets released each Saturday, but favourites remain, like the oozy Nutella-filled Love at First Bite, the salted caramel-filled Veruca Salt and the George Costanza, adorned with salted pretzels.
Top-seller:Love at First Bite ($6)
Various locations. doughnuttime.com.au
EASEY’S
Come for the burgers and the trains five storeys above the streets of Collingwood, stay for the doughnuts, filled with milkshake-flavoured custard. Blue heaven and banana do well, ditto peanut butter and jelly on the specials menu. “Doughies are the perfect sweet complement to a burger. They go together like a pie and sauce,” says Easey’s Jimmy Hurlston.
Top-seller:Blue heaven ($2.50)
48 Easey St, Collingwood. easeys.com.au
KRISPY KREME
Purveyors of the original doughnut craze, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t demolished a glazed KK at some stage.
The US chain hit town in 2006 with much fanfare (and traffic) when its first Victorian store opened in Narre Warren with a 24-hour drive-through.
Following a restructure in 2010, the company now also sells through 7-11 outlets and has diversified into specialty doughnuts such as stars to help the Make-A-Wish charity and sweets made to look like burgers.
Top-seller:Original Glazed ($2.50)
Various locations. krispykreme.com.au
SHORTSTOP
Doughnuts and coffee collide at this pretty-as-a-picture CBD hole in the wall. You’ll find four types here — raised, filled, cruller and cake. Raised and filled are yeasty, fluffy and with a slight chew, cake is soft with complex flavours, while crullers are a choux pastry base, with a slightly crisp exterior. About 7000 are sold each week, plus wholesale to a handful of other cafes. “Coffee and doughnuts are one of the world’s greatest partnerships,” Shortstop’s Anthony Ivey says.
Top-seller:Australian honey and sea salt cruller ($4)
12 Sutherland St, city. short-stop.com.au
TIVOLI ROAD BAKERY
Salted caramel, lemon curd and vanilla and choc custard doughnuts are the ensemble cast here, ably supported at weekends with specials such as Violet Crumble, blood-orange sherbet, and peanut, popcorn and salted caramel. Up to 2000 balls are made each week, sold on site or at Saturday farmers’ markets. Baker Michael James prides himself on using quality local ingredients as well as fermenting the dough for 48 hours to give them a deep yeasty flavour.
Top-seller:Salted caramel ($4)
3 Tivoli Rd, South Yarra. tivoliroad.com.au
OTHER NOTABLES
Cobb Lane (Yarraville)
Donut Shop (Fitzroy)
Doughboys Doughnuts (city)
Jimmy’s Place (Fawkner)
Mick’s Place (Thomastown)
Olympic Doughnuts (Footscray)
Rustica Sourdough (Fitzroy)
Walker’s Doughnuts (city)
American Doughnut Kitchen (Queen Victoria Market).
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