A doughnut is a type of deep fried dessert food made out of dough or batter.
View more"Doughnut" is the more traditional spelling, although its shortened form, "donut," is also acceptable.
View moreDoughnuts are sold at doughnut shops, bakeries, or grocery stores.
View moreRing doughnuts are made by joining the ends of a long, thin piece of dough into a ring or by using a doughnut cutter.
View moreIt leaves a doughnut-shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center.
View moreA disk-shaped doughnut can also be stretched and molded into a torus until the center breaks to form a hole.
View moreOr, a doughnut depositor can be used to place a circle of liquid dough (batter) into the deep fryer.
View moreThe two most common types of doughnut are ring doughnuts, which are shaped like rings.
View moreThere are also "doughnut holes" or "munchkins" which come in the shape of small balls.
View moreThe name for a doughnut shape is a toroid.
View moreResearchers have noted that the size of the hole in a doughnut correlates with the quality of the economy.
View moreSpecifically, the worse the economy, the bigger the doughnut hole.
View moreNational Doughnut Day was not created by doughnut manufacturers.
View moreIt was created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the "Doughnut Dollies".
View moreEating a doughnut a day can add an extra pound every 10 days.
View moreThe world's most expensive Doughnut sells for $100 a piece.
View moreTen people in the United States have the last name Doughnut or Donut.
View moreNinety-five people have the name Longjohn (the name of a long doughnut).
View moreIt was a jelly doughnut made in New York on January 21, 1993.
View moreThere are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country in the world.
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