It’s been two years since I started this asinine Donut blog. So to thank you for reading I’ve compiled a list of the past year’s Donut highlights. Enjoy.

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So far ‘08 has been all about The Doughnut Plant’s Meyer Lemon series. And by “series” I mean glazed and cake. They’re both made of the DP’s standard issue doughs and have the natural, fresh tartness of the real lemon-orange hybrid. Here’s a few shots of the meyer lemons Mrs. B and I enjoyed on her 28th birthday a few weeks ago. And by “Mrs. B and I,” I really just mean “I”, because we have this routine on holidays and birthdays where I buy Donuts and say they’re for her, knowing full well she doesn’t actually like Donuts that much and I’ll get to eat them. But it’s still kind of her present. Everyone wins.

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Holiday Donut thought: a plain old-fashioned dunked in egg nog. Hopefully Mom can make this happen. Good tidings all around.

In honor of the holiday I tried to feed our cat Dominic a Dunkin’ Donut. Happy Thanksgiving.

In Philly ’til Saturday. Lots of Donuts and hopefully lots of cheesesteaks. Plus weird medical stuff at the Mütter.

Some of you may remember last year around this time Mrs. B and I were in Portland getting our vows renewed at Voodoo. Doughnut maker and ordained minister Tres Shannon re-hitched us beneath a velvet portrait of Isaac Hayes, threw lots of Fruit Loops in the air (Get it? Like small Doughnuts!) and presented us with a customized buttermilk Doughnut-representation of our cat Dominic. We felt worst about eating his head. But along with all the weird, perverted and twisted Donutage we consumed at Voodoo – highlights of which included Tang, bacon, powdered iced tea, Captain Crunch, and Cocoa Puffs - we also went home with a monstrous Tex-ass glazed. We brought it back to Brooklyn and froze it wedding-cake style until our second anniversary, which was yesterday. So last night we ceremoniously pulled the thing from the freezer and thawed it. Mrs. B said it looked like a diseased brain. We dug in to its soggy, stale-glaze saturated, freezer burned dough and somehow made it through two whole bites. We washed it down with a fine champagne.

Mrs. B holding original smooth normal Doughnut.

2nd Anniversary Brain Doughnut.

In case you’d forgotten, today is National Doughnut Day. This glorious 24 hours of Doughnut appreciation was kicked off in 1938 by the Salvation Army to honor the so-called Salvation Army Doughnut Lassies who’d served front-line troops freshly fried Doughnuts during World War I. It was also a way to stir up excitement and revenue for the Salvationists during the great depression, capitalizing on America’s relatively new-found love for Doughnuts – a result of soldiers returning home from WWI still craving the plain cakes they’d enjoyed during wartime. Blognut will be celebrating this joyous occasion with a bag of Honey Dips from the Donut Pub. Here’s me eating one:

p.s. - if you don’t think they’re too sweet, stop by participating Krispy Kremes for a FREE Doughnut of your choice.

A candle-impaled Donut would be too obvious. So instead Mrs. Blognut got me a Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Cake with a frosting-and-sprinkle Donut representation on top. After Donuts, and perhaps pulled pork BBQ, Oatmeal Cookie Crunch has to be the best food there is, period.

Blognut would like to wish Blognut a happy 1 year anniversary.

This idiotic Donut blog has come a long way since its humble beginnings at the Formica tables of the Donut House. From a Tang-flavored Donut in Portland, to a buttermilk high atop a 10,000 foot Hawaiian volcano, to rock-hard Parisian atrocities on the streets of the Left Bank, over the past 12 months I’ve tried my hardest to provide you, the readers, with the most objective, practical and flavorful Donut commentary I could manage. Hopefully I’ve convinced some of you of the limitless potential in a wad a fried dough, or at very least helped reinforce your previously existing Donut appreciation. And thanks to all of you who’ve provided support, recipes, and most importanly, Donut shop recommendations - I owe each and every one of you a coffee and a Donut.

So in honor of Blognut’s year anniversary, I’ve compiled a list of the top ten Donuts I consumed over the past year. Enjoy, and thanks for reading.

#10) The Doughnut Plant - Peanut Butter Glazed with Banana Cream Filling

An Elvis-inspired banana cream-stuffed ring coated in a peanut-y glaze.

#9) Banbury Cross - Cinnamon

Cinnamon crumb goodness in Morman country.

#8) The Donut Pub - Black and White Boston Creme

A donut-y twist on the classic NYC black and white cookie stuffed with Boston’s finest.

#7) Yummies Donuts - Honey-Glazed Blossom

Honey-infused cake dough shaped like a boomerang.

#6) Spudnuts - Cherry Cinnamon

A bumpy take on the classic cinnamon bun with cherry-infused glaze.

#5) Voodoo Doughnut - Butter-fingering

Devil’s food cake dough dowsed with vanilla frosted and shattered Butterfinger.

#4) Mike’s Donuts - Plain Glazed

Simple, sweet and satisfying.

#3) The Doughnut Plant - Tres Leches

Mark Israel’s finest creation: butter cake soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk, and cream, just like the traditional Mexican cake.

#2) Voodoo Doughnut - Dominic the Cat

A one-of-a-kind Voodoo creation modeled after my big-boned feline Dominic.

#1) Spudnuts - Plain Glazed

A cinnamon-spiked, potato flour dough, coated with a subtle glaze straight out of Charlottesville, Virginia. Simply the finest Donut of all. Please disregard the cows.