Cake or raised — Pink Box What separates a raised donut from a cake donut: yeast against baking powder, 150 seconds against 90, 38 grams against 26, and which shops run which. nanobotco.github.io/pink-box/dough/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 62K
The batter and the depositor — Pink Box A thick chemically-leavened batter dropped straight into hot fat through a hand-held or bench depositor, which forms the ring as it falls. nanobotco.github.io/pink-box/kitchen/cake-batter/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Buttermilk bar — Pink Box Cake batter cut in a bar rather than a ring, fried so it splits open along the top, and glazed heavily enough that the glaze runs into the split. nanobotco.github.io/pink-box/donut/buttermilk-bar/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Words — Pink Box Sinker, bismarck, long john, fry cake, olykoek, klobasnek, day-old, the dozen. nanobotco.github.io/pink-box/words/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 31K
Donuts — Pink Box Raised glazed, old-fashioned, buttermilk bar, apple fritter, bear claw, maple bar, jelly bismarck, malasada. nanobotco.github.io/pink-box/donuts/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 36K
Cider donut — Pink Box An American cake donut flavoured with apple cider, cinnamon and nutmeg in the batter, usually rolled in cinnamon or granulated sugar. nanobotco.github.io/pink-box/donut/cider-donut/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
The kettle — Pink Box A shallow open kettle of hot fat with a screen, where every donut in the shop is cooked, turned once, and lifted out. nanobotco.github.io/pink-box/kitchen/the-fryer/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Olykoek — Pink Box The Dutch fried dough ball that came to New Amsterdam, and the American donut's direct ancestor: sweetened dough fried in fat, with no hole. nanobotco.github.io/pink-box/word/olykoek/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K