But make sure you get the plain flavor—nothing with a glaze or toppings. If you’ve got some time on your hands and feel like making the doughnuts from scratch, pick a recipe for cake doughnuts.

In addition to plain and sugar-coated mini doughnuts, the Shoreview-based food truck, which debuted this summer, takes the fried treats to a nontraditional level, and the execution hits the spot.

Young Donut Shop cases are packed with raised, cake, long johns, glazed and frosted doughnuts, as well as out-of-the-ordinary orange-glazed cake doughnuts, tiger tails and apple fritters.

Alabama The Heavenly Donut Co., Birmingham Simplicity goes a long way at The Heavenly Donut Co., where bakers whip up fresh batches of plain glazed doughnuts every morning.

Their plain cake doughnut is a thing of beauty. Fried golden brown, the doughnut has a little crisp to it, giving way to a soft interior and hints of vanilla at the end of bites.

Singles are $1.29 for plain, $1.99 for standard old-fashioneds or cake doughnuts, $2.29 for fancier versions and $2.69 for filled. Doughnuts trucked in from the company’s central bakery in SeaTac.