22 Donut Recipes Around The World (2024)

Banana akaras are traditional banana fritters from Sierra Leone. They are great snacks for both kids and adults!

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Kakro (or kaklo) is a delicious traditional Ghanaian fried snack made from very ripe plantain fritters.

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Koeksisters are small crispy donuts that are popular in South Africa. They are braided and fried, then soaked in a fragrant sugar syrup.

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Mandazi are traditional spiced coconut-flavored donuts from the Swahili coast, which includes Tanzania, Mozambique and Kenya.

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Sfenj are delicious traditional Moroccan beignets which are airy and soft on the inside and crisp on the outside.

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Yoyos (or youyous) are delicious donut-shaped Tunisian pastries, which are usually soaked in sugar syrup and sprinkled with crushed pistachios or almonds.

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Berliner are donuts of Austro-German origin traditionally filled with custard, that are very popular in Chile and other Latin American countries.

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Calzones rotos are delicious traditional Chilean angel wings fritters, that are often prepared during the winter.

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A New Orleans beignet is a specialty of French origins that is served as a 2-inch square piece of fried dough that is liberally covered with icing sugar.

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Sonhos de banana are traditional banana fritters from Sao Tome and Principe. Those beignets are also common in Brazil.

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Timbits, also known as munchkins are delicious donut holes that are often sold in North American fast food chains.

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The luqmat el qadi, also called lokma in Turkish or loukoumádes in Greek, is a pastry made from batter fried and soaked in syrup or sometimes honey, famous in the Gulf countries, Egypt and the Levant countries.

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Tulumba is a traditional Turkish dessert made with thick fried choux pastry sticks which are dipped in sugar syrup.

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Bolinhos de mel (also called pasteis de mel) are delicious little Portuguese honey beignets, traditionally flavored with cinnamon, clove and lemon.

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Chruściki, faworki, chrusty or angel wings are traditional donuts prepared in Poland during the carnival period until Fat Thursday.

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Krofne (krafne or krafna) is a Croatian and Serbian donut served especially before the beginning of the Great Lent and during the carnival.

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Nun's puffs are small beignets made of choux pastry consumed all year round, but also more particularly during Mardi Gras in France.

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An oliebol (plural oliebollen) is a traditional Belgian and Dutch sweet donut, also called smoutballen, croustillons, schmalzkugeln, Ölkugel, püpperchen and gebackene maüse.

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The pączki (or ponchik) are traditional Polish donuts, also popular in Central and Eastern Europe, that are filled with rose petal jam or fruit jam.

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Uštipci are fried dough balls that are popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia where they are known as miške.

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Firi firi is a coconut-based donut. It is a Polynesian specialty served at traditional breakfast, especially in Tahiti.

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Panikeke, also called lapotopoto, keke isite, or tama is a sweet, traditional donut from Samoa, Tonga and Palau.

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