Deep in Maine, Artisanal Doughnuts

Photo by Samantha Given-Dennis

From left, chocolate coconut, peanut butter, and sweet potato. The coconut topping was nothing special, but the chocolate cake has a texture and deep flavor that comes from Ann's dedication to real chocolate rather than powder.

"If you could find a better chocolate coconut doughnut in the free world or behind the iron curtain, I'll pay for it," her husband, John, tells the bright-eyed students and bearded locals who gush over their steaming rings of dough.

For the peanut butter, she uses Jiffy and goes through a jar a day--I would say there's almost as much peanut butter as cake, a balance that carries all the flavor without any of that gooey texture that makes you gum like grandpa. The sweet potato comes with a maple glaze and a few crushed nuts.

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Max Fisher travels into Northern pine country to find
Deep in Maine, Artisinal Doughnuts
in flavors of sweet potato maple and beyond.

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