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.

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.

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.

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.

Plain or glazed, the doughnuts cost just 50 cents each. Military veterans who visit General American and show their military I.D.s will get two of the doughnuts for free.

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.