The Donut Stop

Bakery: The Donut Stop
Address: 617 Parkdale Ave N, Hamilton ON
Website: facebook 
Style: Doughnuts 
Price: $  

Located in an industrial area of Hamilton, this 24-hour coffee stop may be an easy miss and unlikely stop for those on the hunt for baked goods, but The Donut Stop, despite signage advertising nothing but their coffee, makes their doughnuts fresh and from scratch. These come in a bunch of classic varieties, along with a few harder-to-find types. Nothing gourmet, but simple, tasty doughnuts that are fresh and affordable -- what more could you want? ;)

 Anyways, for $6 you get a box of half dozen, and the ones in this box were: walnut, cherry, and two dutchies and apple fritters. My focus was on yeast (raised) doughnuts, because these are always my personal preferences; however, I have noted with many doughnut places that when you make good cake doughnuts, the yeast ones aren't so good. You could say this was the case here: at first glance, I pounced on the apple fritter, but although fresh and with good dough, it lacked apples (I probably had two chunks) and didn't have the flavour and nice glazed outside of good fritters. The same was true of the dutchies, which also lacked raisins and the tastiness of the ones sampled a few weeks prior.

On the other hand, I took a piece of the walnut and cherry at first out of pure curiosity. Dense, but still moist on the inside with an almost shell-like, thickly glazed outside, these two cake doughnuts were the highlights and are obviously the specialty here.

Rating: ***