Dough Baby Doughnuts

Stressful week. I decided to treat myself to some doughnuts. I really wanted a yeasty doughnut, something not the usual stuff from the supermarket deli. King’s Doughnuts were my first thought because they are fantastic but the drive for me...(Heavy Sigh).
Going further out 71 in LaGrange I found Dough Baby Doughnuts. They are right off the main drag at Adams Street almost directly across from Big R and Shannon’s BBQ (another place I enjoy with their own AMAZING pastry shop next door. But that’s pastries, and I wanted doughnuts.)
They open at 5AM and I was warned to get there as close to opening to still find a good selection. Saturday morning I assumed everyone would sleep in so I rolled into their parking lot at 6:15 only to find a line of 4 people already waiting and their tiny parking lot already full. Really?!
Despite the small store (and being Oldham Co.) everyone was wearing masks and sizable 6 ft. markers were on the floor and being observed. A regular glazed type donut was 95 cents I think and specialty doughnuts were $1.35. So great prices. The selection variations - about the same number as in most doughnut shops.
The smell was out of this world! Big tray stands we’re still being rolled in from the back. I got an assorted dozen plus one apple danish. The specialty doughnut of the day was a bourbon cream (a yeast doughnut filled with a whipped bourbon chocolate cream, chocolate iced and topped with a pecan). It was ideal. Not an overpowering, artificial bourbon taste that screams “i’m 19 and I just want to get faced!” It was a gentle but definite bourbon flavor that went well in the fluffy chocolate filling. I also had the maple bacon doughnut and the same measured touch was there - real bacon chips, no artificial flavor , nothing screaming or overpowering. Just real, genuine flavor and taste. Wow!
I haven’t made my way through the banana cream filled, the peanut butter, or the other at this point unknown flavors she packed in there for me but I can’t wait! BTW the apple danish was very good as well, very flaky, buttery with an apple topping that did not at all taste like the generic fruit topping found on most store bought danish.
If you go , go early. You can pay with a card but take some cash to tip the friendly folks behind the counter.
Great. Just what I needed. Another diet bashing bad habit.

[Robin Garr]

Thanks for the report, Carla! Makes me kind of glad that LaGrange is a long way for me.

Thanks for the report Carla. We've seen that place several times but never stopped in, after reading your report we definitely will have to try them. Since we live in Anchorage it's not that far.

When I first saw the name, I thought maybe this was a subsidiary of Doughdaddy's over in Versailles. A trip to Lexington is never complete without a stop there.