The NYT has a delightful recipe for Apple Cider Donut bundt cake -- I use it to make muffins. It's better than the TJ's donuts by far (which are cake donuts anyway so not really different).

Anonymous wrote:But then how will you get to spend an afternoon around a bunch of wasps

Do you mean the insects, the white people, or both?

Anonymous wrote:A fresh, properly made apple cider doughnut doesn’t taste greasy at all. It has a crisp exterior with a pillowy soft interior.

They are almost always full of grease because it's part-time workers who don't care frying too many too fast and the oil temp drops, so the donuts absorb all the oil. They might taste good for 5 minutes... then you're getting bubble guts from all that oil. Nasty!

Anonymous wrote:The orchard ones are trucked in from Sysco.

Right? People are such gullible saps. All the apples and products they sell probably aren't even from apples they grew. It's all a scam.

Anonymous wrote:They aren't making them fresh at the orchard either

Stribling does. They open their bake house Labor Day weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:But then how will you get to spend an afternoon around a bunch of wasps

This made me laugh. We moved from the east coast and an afternoon with wasps is exactly my memory of apple picking!

+1, also laughing!

The Entenmann's ones? We have those right now, and they are delicious.

They are NOT as delicious as the ones at our orchard. i'm pretty sure they are made on-site ... you can see the bakers in the back room!

I hate most donuts but LOVE a good apple cider one!

Totally disagree

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Anonymous wrote:I will eat any donut anytime, BUT

the fresh apple cider donuts at the orchard are a very specific experience that cannot be replicated by nuking a grocery store donut, sorry.

I think that depends on how far in advance the orchard ones are prepared . The ones I had from Butler’s Orchard tasted less fresh from the ones I got from Trader Joe’s but cost triple the price

Butlers Orchard isn’t selling fresh doughnuts.

They aren't? You can see them frying them when you're ordering.

They are frying pre-made doughnuts. So I guess “fresh” if refrying an already made doughnut meets that criteria?

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Anonymous wrote:I will eat any donut anytime, BUT

the fresh apple cider donuts at the orchard are a very specific experience that cannot be replicated by nuking a grocery store donut, sorry.

I think that depends on how far in advance the orchard ones are prepared . The ones I had from Butler’s Orchard tasted less fresh from the ones I got from Trader Joe’s but cost triple the price

Butlers Orchard isn’t selling fresh doughnuts.

They aren't? You can see them frying them when you're ordering.

A fresh, properly made apple cider doughnut doesn’t taste greasy at all. It has a crisp exterior with a pillowy soft interior.

Anonymous wrote:Trader Joe apple cider donuts microwaved for 20 seconds come pretty close to the authentic ones from the orchard.

If you think a microwaved doughnut tastes anything like an fresh authentic apple cider doughnut, you’ve never had a fresh apple cider doughnut.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they're all bad. They don't taste apple-y or donut-y. They all just taste greasy.

Those donuts always leave a film of grease on the roof of my mouth which always makes me think it's lard because I don't get that from other foods.

YES! That's exactly it. I hate that.

They aren't making them fresh at the orchard either

You are wrong. A microwaved donut isn't close to fresh. The crispiness of deep frying is lost.