List of doughnut varieties

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Doughnuts are a type of fried dough food. The following is a list of doughnut and fried dough pastry varieties.

Variations and specialties by region

The terms below constitute either names for different doughnut types created using local recipes, or for the local language translation of the term for an imported doughnut product.

• Facturas
  are a popular baked doughnut found in every corner bakery. Other names that may be seen in bakeries are berlinesas and bolas de fraile ("friar's balls").
• doughnut holes
  , and Armenian doughnuts are referred to as chickies.
• Australia – Kitchener bun, Similar to Berliner, but with an open face and the use of more cream than jam. Besides traditional ring doughnuts, jam doughnuts are common in most bakeries, often sold warm.
• Austria – Austrian doughnut equivalents are called Krapfen and resemble the
  mocha, or with no filling at all. They are usually topped with icing, powdered sugar
  , or conventional sugar.
• Azores – filhós, malassadas

• Belgium –
  Oliebollen
  but usually do not contain any fruit, except sometimes for apple chunks. They are typical carnival and fair snacks and are dusted with powdered sugar.
• Bohemia – "kobliha", "bavorský vdolek", see the Czech Republic
• Buñuelos
  are a round fry bread.
• Brazil – Guava paste, cream, dulce de leche or chocolate ganache filled doughnuts are referred to as sonho, meaning "dream". These are usually coated with a mixture of white sugar and cinnamon or topped with powdered sugar.

• Brunei – kuih galang
• mekitsas
• Cambodia – nom kong, the Cambodian doughnut, which is named after its shape – the word កង, pronounced 'kong' in Khmer, means "wheel", while 'nom' (Khmer: នំបុ័ង) is the general word for pastry or any kind of starchy food. A very inexpensive treat for everyday Cambodians, this sweet pastry consists of a rice flour dough moulded into a classic ring shape and then deep fried in fat, then drizzled with a palm sugar toffee and sprinkled with sesame seeds. The rice flour gives it a chewy texture that Cambodians are fond of.
• Cameroon – Puff-puff
• Canada – Canadian variants include the
  Maple bars – bar doughnuts with maple syrup-flavored icing – are also commonly found in the US, especially in neighboring states, such as Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan
  .
• manjar, the Chilean version of dulce de leche
  .
• tikoy, zha gao, jin doi, chien doi, and zhá miàn quān. A salty variation are deep-fried doughnut sticks that are often quite oily, hence their Mandarin name, yóutiáo (油條, literally "oil strips"); in Cantonese, this doughnut–style pastry is called yàuhjagwái (油炸鬼); it is often served with congee, a traditional rice porridge. The most similar in appearance one is called Mianwo (面窝) popular in Wuhan
  . It is fried from rice and soybeans mixed slurry rather than dough and It also has a variant made from potato.
• Cote d'Ivoire – Gbofloto
• roscas
• Corsica – fritelli

• krafna
  , or pokladnice (poklade meaning "carnival")
• Cyprus – Loukoumades
• Czech Republic – Koblihy or vdolky (without a hole) are usually filled with jam and dusted with sugar. Vdolky are not as high as koblihy. Bavorský vdolek or Bavorský koblih ("Bavarian doughnut") may be fried or baked and have jam and thick sour cream on top.
• Denmark – The "Berliner" without a hole is available in bakeries across the country and are called Berliner like in Germany. Another variant without the filling is
  aebleskiver
  , normally eaten with powdered sugar and jam on the side.
• Ecuador – Huevitos Chilenos ("Chilean Eggs"), a small variety of round Doughnut (without a hole), sold year-round on street corners around the country. The original Chilean Eggs are slightly different, and are called "Sopaipillas" in Chile and other South-American countries.
• Finland – Munkki (without a hole), Berliininmunkki/piispanmunkki (no hole, sugar coating), donitsi (with a hole), munkkirinkilä.
• France –
  New Orleans, Louisiana
  .
• Georgia – punchula

• Germany – The
  rosehip jam. Other varieties and names are Obstkrapfen, Fastnachtskrapfen, Faschingskrapfen, Knieküchle, Auszogne and Kreppel
  .
• Ghana – Bofrot
• Greece –
  Loukoumades
  . A doughnut-like snack called Loukoumás comes in two types, a crispy one shaped like the number 8, and a larger, softer one shaped like the number 0.
• Malasada. They were brought to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese laborers from Madeira and the Azores
  who went to Hawaii to work in the plantations. They are small balls of yeast dough, deep fried, and coated in sugar.

• Hungary – Fánk, a round doughnut (without a hole) dusted with sugar, and Lángos, a flat fried bread made from yeast dough, served with sour cream and toppings like cheese, ham or chopped onions.
• Kleinur
  , Berlínarbollur and Ástarpungar. Ástarpungar traditionally contain raisins.

• India –
  cardamon
  flavored sweet syrup.
• Indonesia – Donat kentang (Potato Doughnut) is an Indonesian style fried mashed potato doughnut; it is a ring-shaped doughnut made from a combination of flour and mashed potatoes, coated in powdered sugar or icing sugar.
• Zooloobiya is a doughnut that comes in various shapes and sizes and coated in a sticky-sweet syrup. Razavi doughnut is ring-shaped with sugar on it. It is known as a symbol of Mashhad
  .

• Israel –
  Berliner and the Polish pączki, are deep-fried, injected with jelly, and then topped with powdered sugar or frosting. They are a traditional Hanukkah food among Ashkenazi Jews
  .

• Italy –
  Sfingi
  .
• Japan – Sata–andagi. An-doughnut (あんドーナッツ, lit. "bean jam doughnut") is widely available and is similar to Germany's Berliner, except it contains red bean paste. Deep fried dough filled with Japanese–style curry called カレーパン (curry bread) is also very popular.
• Jersey – (Channel Islands) Jersey Wonders (Mèrvelles).
• Baursaki
• Mandalas – sweet, triangular shaped breakfast delicacy enjoyed with a coconut side dish (baazi), made out of flour and sugar, originally from Mombasa
• Korea – Chapssal doughnut, twisted doughnut. Many bakeries in South Korea offer doughnuts either filled with or made entirely from the Korean traditional rice dessert tteok. These come in a variety of colors, though they are normally in green, pink, or white. They are often filled with a sweet red bean paste or sesame seeds.
• Lebanon – Awami.
• Sfinz
• Lithuania – Spurgos are doughnuts with jam filling and sugar coating. There is also a local variety of doughnuts made from cottage cheese dough ("Varškės spurgos") which contains no filling.
• Madagascar – Mofo Boule
• Malaysia – Kuih Keria, Kuih Gelang, Kuih Tayar
• Mexico – Buñuelo, Churro, Sopapilla. The Mexican Donas are very similar to doughnuts including in the name; the dona is a fried–dough pastry–based snack, commonly coated with cinnamon sugar or granulated sugar, or dipped in chocolate. A pelona, alike Berliner, is a pastry similar to local doughnut with no central hole made from sweet yeast dough (Danish dough) deep fried usually in oil, filled with vanilla dulce de leche (in this case local manjar) and few raisins, conventional sugar as topping. Starting on a local doughnut's dough, rolled, shape molded, deep fried, sliced, opened two halves, filled, recap and topped. Is a popular snack in the street food vending but rarely seen in bakeries or any other food menus because it is dense and loaded with carbohydrates.
• Mochi donuts – a fusion pastry crossing traditional American doughnuts and Japanese mochi
• Moldova – Schlitzküchla (from German cuisine)
• Morocco – Sfenj
• Nepal – Sel roti
• Oliebollen are a traditional Dutch food eaten on New Year's Eve and at fairs. They are like a round doughnut without a hole (similar to trademarked plain "donut holes" in the US). Oliebollen are a traditional treat.^[1]
• New Zealand – Cream–filled doughnut

• Nigeria – Puff-puff, Chin chin

• Fattigmann
• Bollos
• Peru – Dona, Picarones

• Pinakufu, Shakoy
  (Lubid-lubid)
• August III
  under influence of French cooks who came to Poland at that time, pączki dough baked in Poland has been improved, so that pączki became lighter, spongier, and more resilient.
• Portugal – fartura, filhós Portuguese-style doughnuts, dipped in sugar and cinnamon.
• quesitos
  (filled with sweet cheese)
• gogoşi

• Russia –
  belyashi
  in Russia.
• zippulas
• Scotland – "Doughrings" is an alternative term for ring doughnuts. Square fudge doughnuts are also a tradition.
• Krofna
  , a name derived from the Austrian Krapfen.
• sfingi
  , cuddureddi
• ceregi
• krofi
  , fanke, flancati

• Somalia – Kac kac
• Afrikaner desert of plaited dough, fried and steeped in cold syrup. Oliebolle met Suurmelk ("sour milk doughnuts"). Another variation is the Vetkoek, dough deep fried in oil, served with mince, syrup, honey or jam. Koe'sister
  A spiced doughnut rolled in coconut.
• Buñuelos
  , bunyols in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, bolo de vento in Galicia or kruxpeta in the Basque Country, are a traditional Easter pastry in the form of small balls without a hole. They can be sweet or savoury, but usually filled with custard or chocolate. The American or German–style donut is sometimes called a berlina.
• Sweden – munk (doughnut), klenät, flottyrring. One example is vaniljmunk which looks similar to the German Berliner but is filled with a vanilla custard.
• Switzerland – Ringli, Basler Krapfen, Chüechli, Öhrli
• Syria – zabeh
• Taiwan – tian tian chuan, (lit. "sweet sweet ring").
• Thailand – Khanom wong, Khanom khai hong
• Tajikistan- chalpak.
• Tunisia – Ftair, Yous–yous, Bambalouni
• Tulumba tatlisi, İzmir lokması, dibile

• Turkmenistan – Pişme
• pampushky (sweet filling or garlic flavored) and рonchik, Ukrainian "ponchyk" (Ukrainian: пончик), as well as Russian рonchiki (Russian
  : пончики), are deep-fried and sphere-shaped pieces of dough.
• fudge doughnuts
  in certain regions of Scotland. In some parts of Northern Ireland, ring doughnuts are referred to as gravy rings due to their being cooked in oil, itself colloquially known as "gravy".

• Pershing or Persian is also considered a doughnut in some parts of the United States.^[2] Local varieties similar to the doughnut include traditional Native American frybread (popular in the Plains/Mountain states) and beignets in New Orleans
  cuisine.
• Venezuela − Bomba
• Bánh tiêu, giò cháo quẩy
• Yemen – Zalabiyeh
• Zambia − Vitumbuwa

See also

References

External links

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