10 Extremely Creative Doughnuts That Will Make You Drool

Today marks National Doughnut Day. While you may celebrate with your usual glazed or sprinkle variety, it might be worth branching out—doughnut shops around the country often have special flavors they are proud to call their own. Get inspired with some of the most extreme varieties we could find.

1. OLD DIRTY BASTARD

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Oregon’s Voodoo Doughnuts was one of the first shops to really start going crazy with their doughnut flavors. These days, they are well-known for their partnership with Rogue, creating beers based on doughnut flavors including Bacon Maple Ale and Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Banana Ale. But Voodoo still has its share of extreme doughnuts—including the Old Dirty Bastard, which is covered in chocolate frosting, Oreos and peanut butter. If you’re really hungry, try the Rapper’s Delight, a trio featuring the Old Dirty Bastard, the M&M-covered Marshall Mathers, and the Maple Blazer Blunt, a cone-shaped doughnut with an end dipped in maple frosting and red sprinkle embers.

2. BLUE SKY

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New Mexico’s Rebel Donut has a special menu item featuring blue rock candy based on the shop’s favorite show: Breaking Bad. Imagine how happy they were when Aaron Paul (a.k.a. Jesse Pinkman) came in to order a dozen of the Blue Sky donuts and even posed for a picture with the treats.

3. PSYCHOBUGZ

Psycho Donuts

San Jose’s Psycho Donuts celebrated National Donut Day in 2012 by releasing two donuts topped with real insects. The Chirp Derp was a chocolate donut topped with bacon bits, bacon-cheddar crickets, and a drizzle of milk chocolate. The Worm Hole took a jalapeño and tequila donut and covered it with salted lime icing, a Key Lime drizzle, and a spiced moth larvae. (According to their menu, these doughnuts are no longer available.)

4. FOIE BOMB

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For 2013's National Doughnut Day, Psycho Donuts aimed to impress their gourmand audience with a foie gras mousse doughnut served with a pipette of honey, fig, and balsamic syrup. (Like psychobugz, the foie bomb is no longer available—but they still have plenty of crazy doughnuts to choose from.)

5. JAGER BOMB

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While the Jägermeister buttercream in this Jager Bomb doughnut by Rebel Donut might not get you drunk, it could at least give you a caffeine buzz with the Red Bull glaze. It certainly tastes better than the original cocktail.

6. MOJITO

Mint, sugar, and rum are great inside a cocktail glass, but even better when turned into a doughnut. Best of all, you can even make this tasty treat at home yourself with this recipe from Diethood.

7. DOUGHNUT SHOT GLASS LINERS

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If you really want to let loose while still enjoying the goodness of doughnuts, skip the boozy fillings and instead use straight liquor. Just follow this tip by My Burning Kitchen and put a hollowed-out doughnut hole in your shot glass before pouring to enjoy full-strength alcohol with a sweet, doughnut-y finish.

8. DEAD ELVIS

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Elvis’s favorite sandwich (made with peanut butter, bacon, bananas, and jelly) is pretty legendary, but when you switch out the bread for a custard-filled doughnut, that’s when you really get something fit for a king. If Elvis is secretly still around, you know he's made a few trips to Psycho Donuts to enjoy the Dead Elvis.

9. MANGO TANGO

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You know what makes a regular mango doughnut into something truly memorable? Just ask Voodoo Donuts and you’ll know the answer is always Tang. (Astronauts will love it.)

10. TEXAS-SIZE DOUGHNUT

Round Rock Donuts

It might not come in crazy flavors, but the Round Rock Donut from the Round Rock, Texas shop of the same name is certainly extreme enough to have earned its place here. That’s because this doughnut weighs in at over 2 pounds of doughnut-y goodness.

A version of this story originally appeared in 2013.