The Country's Most Over-The-Top Doughnuts

Doughnuts are always a good idea, no matter the time of day. And while everyone is familiar with this sweet breakfast treat, rest assured you haven't seen or tasted doughnuts like the dozen below. A far cry from classic glazed or powdered, these creative confections are more like art—if art were crusted in cereal and rock candy, of course. 

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Rock candy on a doughnut?! Leave it to Birdies, where childhood fantasies turn into grown-up realities.

Does a chocolate chip banana bread doughnut that's topped with crushed Nilla Wafers and drizzled with peanut butter and Nutella qualify as breakfast or dessert? Who cares! It's delicious either way.   

Inside the Dirt Cake Donut: homemade chocolate pudding that's been spiked with wafer cookies.  

May the glaze be with you; these galaxy-inspired sweets are out of this world.

Meet the Voodoo Doll, a raised-yeast doughnut filled with raspberry jelly and finished with chocolate frosting, decorative icing and a pretzel "stake."

As if an ube (purple yam) doughnut with cream cheese frosting isn't enticing enough, DK's Donuts adds bacon.  

Specialty sweets—like the brioche doughnuts with taro-milk glaze, matcha drizzle and house-made sesame lace cookies—keep the crowds going back for more.  

Because chocolate-drizzled caramel corn makes everything better—even doughnuts. 

The best way to say happy birthday? This celebration-worthy birthday cake doughnut.

If you like Mexican hot chocolate, you'll love these spiced chocolate cake doughnuts with house-made chipotle powder, cayenne pepper-spiked chocolate glaze and a roast marshmallow.

We can't say no to the raspberry coulis doughnut—a pretty sweet menu staple. 

This double-decker creation, with chocolate cake and cookies-and-cream doughnuts, is as good as it looks.