"donuts" news and stories

Ron Henderson maintains it's a myth that police officers eat a disproportionate number of doughnuts, but his entrepreneurial fantasy involves cops selling lots of them.

Henderson recently took over Police Doughnuts from a fellow retired officer, and hopes to spin the Louisville storefront into a franchise. While he concedes there might be a few other former officers with doughnut bakeries of their own – the Internet was briefly abuzz last year with news of a small-town force in Michigan buying a century-old pastry shop -- Henderson says he's the first to fully mine the possibilities of a law enforcement theme.

And, in good law-and-order fashion, he's also trademarked the concept.

Enticed by Bon Appétit's 10 Best Places for Donuts, CafeMom released their own drool-worthy list of doughnuts found on the web. The fried pickings came from all over, including blogs and bakery websites:

10. Vadas Doughnuts from Spicyandhra
9. Caramel Corn Donuts from Playing With Fire and Water
8. The Elvis Doughnut from Ike and Jane Cafe
7. Apple Cider Doughnut Holes from CafeMom
6. Bombolinis alla Nutella from bell'alimento

For their top five doughnuts along with mouth-watering photos and recipes, head over to CafeMom.com.

Doughnuts. Photo: jwannie, flickr.

A few of the best stories spied elsewhere on the Web this week:

The world's largest candy store is set to open in Dubai, complete with mall-roaming mascot.

With more upscale restaurants open for breakfast, doughnuts are popping on many of their menus.

Celebrity chefs, including Guy Fieri, Paula Deen and Anthony Bourdain, hit the road like rock stars on tour.

A Sydney restaurant has been fined for topless food handlers, just one of many food safety infractions on New South Wales Government's Name and Shame Web site.

Slashfoodie Pervaiz Shallwani interviews Julia Child's editor Judith Jones about her new book "The Pleasures of Cooking for One."

"Top Chef" finalist and ladies' man Fabio Viviani gets his own Bravo reality show.

Mario Batali will not have to give up his precious orange Crocs -- the company has been saved from going out of business.

"Fear of both fried food and the act of frying means that doughnuts are strictly outsourced," writes Kelly Alexander in the New York Times Magazine. But it wasn't always so. For centuries doughnuts (and crullers, and fritters, and beignets) were staples of home cooks, who weren't afraid of a little hot lard. And there's no reason you should be either, says Alexander - doughnuts, a combination of flour, eggs and milk with baking powder or baking soda, are easy to make.

The article includes recipes for churros (Mexican stick doughnuts) with bourbon-spiked chocolate sauce, basic powdered cake donuts, and Earl Gray tea flavored donuts.

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Krispy Kreme is in another battle, and this time it isn't with Dunkin' Donuts.

The beloved donut chain is being sued by a company called Caribbean Creme. Seems that the company has a fruit drink also called Caribbean Creme and they aren't happy that Krispy Kreme has come out with a drink and doughnut called Caribbean Kreme. It's part of their "Chillers" line.

I have as much legal expertise as Barney Fife, so I have no idea if this has merit or not. But maybe Krispy Kreme should have spelled it "Karibbean Kreme."