What is a long donut called?
Long John. The American Long John doughnut is a yeasted doughnut cut into a rectangle. Its oblong shape is sometimes, in the U.S., called an eclair or an eclair doughnut, after the (baked, not fried) French pastry.
On the American West Coast, Long Johns are called bars or bar doughnuts, such as the maple bar and the chocolate bar (depending on the frosting). Filled Long Johns are called filled bars, or filled bar doughnuts.
Washington Irving's reference to “doughnuts” in 1809 in his History of New York is more commonly cited as the first written recording of the term. Irving described “balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks.” These “nu*ts” of fried dough might now be called doughnut holes.
It's called this because it's the same dough used to make small cream puffs which resemble small heads of cabbage. The dough is made by making a rue, and turning it into a paste with eggs. It's then piped out on a sheet into a long shape.
| cruller | beignet |
|---|---|
| churro | dunker |
| sinker | pastry |
| doughnutUK | Danish |
| sweet roll | bun |
At their most plain and basic, cake doughnuts are more rich and buttery (that's because there's usually a good amount of butter in the batter), while yeast doughnuts are, well, a little yeasty. You know, they have that subtle fermented tang kind of thing going on.
Cruller. A twisted fried doughnut, either in a ring shape, or in a long straight strip.
Churros are special South and Central American doughnut sticks. This sweet treat was adopted from Spain and often called a "Mexican doughnut." Churros are tube-shaped, unyeasted sticks of dough, piped from a star-tipped pastry bag, fried in oil, and rolled in cinnamon sugar.
An Ă©clair is a long and thin individual cake made out of choux pastry. This fabulous dessert is topped with milk chocolate and filled with cream *queue drooling*. A donut is a fried dessert of sweet dough and is traditionally in the shape of a ring or ball.
Bismark. This premium and decadent donut includes more dough, filling and topping due to its rectangular shape. Depending on your location, the name and build of this donut may vary! Down South, this may be called a Long John, and could be unfilled and tossed in powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar.
What do you call a doughnut without a hole?
Jelly Doughnut
These classic doughnuts are typically round without a hole in the middle, and generally leavened with yeast.
