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Hanukkah Sufganiyot (Jelly Doughnuts)

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These deep-fried Israeli delicacies symbolize the miracle of the burning oil lamps in the ancient Holy Temple in Jerusalem celebrated during Hanukkah. Plump up each doughnut with your favorite fruit jam. For a wintry effect, sprinkle the tops with granulated sugar.

Baked Cake Donuts

While cake donuts are traditionally fried, they're just as delicious baked in the oven, with far less cleanup. Toss in powdered sugar or finish with a simple glaze and sprinkles or toasted coconut -- you can't go wrong!

Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins

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These Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins capture the essence of doughnuts with their cakelike interior and sugar-coated exterior. Flavored with pumpkin puree, they take on the feel of fall.

Sufganiyot

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Because they are fried in oil, these jelly doughnuts are a traditional dessert for Hanukkah.

Vanilla Cake Donuts

Vanilla bean and extract perfume these buttermilk donuts that are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Finished with a simple vanilla glaze, they're utterly irresistible.

Jelly-Filled Doughnuts

These fluffy doughnuts are filled with a fruit jam, then topped with a simple glaze for a deep-fried sweet that is simply irresistible. Martha made this recipe on Martha Bakes episode 602.

Glazed Yeast Donuts

Leavened with yeast and gently fried in hot vegetable oil, these donuts are puffy, golden, and light as a feather. Give them a quick dip in our lemon, strawberry, or chocolate glaze -- you can't go wrong!

Jelly Donuts

Fill these golden, light-as-air yeasted donuts with your favorite strawberry or grape jelly and shower with powdered sugar before serving to oohs and aahs.

Baked Chocolate Cake Donuts

It might not be traditional to bake donuts, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't! Cocoa powder and chocolate chips enrich the batter for these baked beauties, and each one is finished with chocolate glaze and sprinkles or more chocolate—in the form of shavings.

Boston Cream Donuts

Everything you love about Boston cream pie but in fried form! Airy yeasted donuts are filled with silky vanilla custard and finished with a decadent chocolate glaze.

Gruyere-and-Parmesan Beignets

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This delicious beignet recipe is courtesy of chef April Bloomfield.

Cider Donuts

An apple cider reduction and plenty of warming spices transform a batch of cake donuts into everyone's favorite fall treat. They're rolled in cinnamon sugar for good measure.

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French Doughnuts

Cake Doughnuts

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Lemon Cake Donuts

Martha's Beignets

Louisiana made the beignet their official state doughnut. They're a treat for both breakfast and dessert--just make sure they're served hot and fresh. Martha made this recipe on Martha Bakes episode 602.

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Test Kitchen's Favorite Churros

Transform pate a choux, a French batter typically used to make cream puffs and crullers, into the beloved Spanish pastries known as churros. Pipe the dough into loops, fry in hot oil, and toss in cinnamon sugar. And don't forget the chocolate sauce for dipping!

Gluten-Free Baked Coconut Donuts

Just as alluring as the store-bought boxed kind but gluten-free and dairy-free, these baked cake donuts have it all. The batter relies on almond flour, coconut oil, and coconut milk, and the coconut glaze gets its pretty-in-pink hue from freeze-dried raspberries. Top off each donut with a sprinkling of shredded coconut.

Old-Fashioned Raised Doughnuts

These yeast doughnuts are a fall favorite.

Chocolate-Glazed Doughnuts

Warm, homemade doughnuts make a decadent birthday treat.

Raspberry-Jam Doughnuts

Make this classic bakery treat from the comfort of your own kitchen. These puffy doughnuts are filled with your favorite raspberry jam and rolled in granulated sugar.

Boules de Berlin

These light, delicious doughnuts come to us courtesy of pastry chef Francois Payard, of Payard Patisserie and Bistro in New York City.

Vegan Baked Banana Donuts

No dairy or eggs in these baked donuts! Ripe bananas, coconut oil, and nut milk are all you need for their rich flavor, although the luscious chocolate glaze on top certainly doesn't hurt.

Buttermilk Funnel Cakes

These crunchy doughnuts are like the fried dough you find at county fairs.

Devil's Food Doughnuts

Rich Devil's Food doughnuts are a perfect choice for any morning -- draped with a brandied chocolate glaze, they can be topped with chopped nuts or coconut for extra flourish.

Doughnut Holes

Baked nuggets are filled with strawberry jam and rolled in confectioners' sugar. A cellophane bag shows them off and keeps the sugar from getting all over. Tags are computer-made, cut out, hole-punched, and tied on with waxed twine.

Spiced Sugar Bomboloni

These Italian doughnuts are dusted with spiced sugar and served with espresso.

Rachel Good's Glazed Potato Doughnuts

These fluffy, satisfying doughnuts add mashed potatoes to the traditional flour dough -- and are best eaten slightly warm.

Sugared-Flowered Doughnuts

These delicately-decorated homemade doughnuts will make hearts flutter before even the first bite is had. The sugared flower decor looks particularly lovely on these orange-blossom-glazed treats, but they'll still look pretty sweet on desserts like iced cookies and cupcakes, too.

Pumpkin Cornmeal Doughnuts

Doughnuts and doughnut holes made with cornmeal and rich pumpkin puree are in keeping with the season. Roll some in confectioners' sugar and others in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. A tall glass of apple cider is the perfect accompaniment.

Pizza Frizza

Turn this plain pizza dough into a sweet Italian-inspired treat. If you've got kids, this is a great way to get them involved in cooking by letting them shape the pizza dough themselves.From the book "Lucinda's Rustic Italian Kitchen," by Lucinda Scala Quinn (Wiley).

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