The Best Donuts in Chicago!

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2016-05-02 12:09:37WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23025 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => Marina @ A Dancer's Live-It [comment_author_email] => adancersliveit@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://adancersliveit.com [comment_author_IP] => 108.36.117.34 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 07:09:37 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-02 12:09:37 [comment_content] => It's official, you have the best job ever. Look at the one Rose is holding from Firecakes!! WHOA. What an awesome roundup Monique, I'm so excited for the rest of the series! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
1. Marina @ A Dancer's Live-It says:

   May 2, 2016

   It’s official, you have the best job ever. Look at the one Rose is holding from Firecakes!! WHOA. What an awesome roundup Monique, I’m so excited for the rest of the series!

   Reply
2016-05-02 12:57:09WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23026 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => Sarah | Broma Bakery [comment_author_email] => sarah.fennel@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => [comment_author_IP] => 209.6.73.121 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 07:57:09 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-02 12:57:09 [comment_content] => You are amazing. This is amazing. I'm coming just for the donuts... and Millie :) [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.86 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
2. Sarah | Broma Bakery says:

   May 2, 2016

   You are amazing. This is amazing. I’m coming just for the donuts… and Millie 🙂

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2016-05-02 15:05:33WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23027 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => Hillary [comment_author_email] => healthyhill3@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://www.nutritionnutontherun.com [comment_author_IP] => 50.202.81.2 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 10:05:33 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-02 15:05:33 [comment_content] => I'm not a huge donut fan (gasp), but I get down with one of those old fashioned donuts, mmm. [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
3. Hillary says:

   May 2, 2016

   I’m not a huge donut fan (gasp), but I get down with one of those old fashioned donuts, mmm.

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2016-05-02 15:13:57WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23028 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => heather (delicious not gorgeous) [comment_author_email] => deliciousnotgorgeous@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://deliciousnotgorgeous.blogspot.com [comment_author_IP] => 174.77.52.65 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 10:13:57 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-02 15:13:57 [comment_content] => the only one i've tried from this list is the lemon pistachio from do-rite (which i loved! the texture was amazing- super tender on the inside, with a delicate crunch on the outside). guess i'll have to go back to try out all the others!! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
4. heather (delicious not gorgeous) says:

   May 2, 2016

   the only one i’ve tried from this list is the lemon pistachio from do-rite (which i loved! the texture was amazing- super tender on the inside, with a delicate crunch on the outside). guess i’ll have to go back to try out all the others!!

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2016-05-02 15:51:23WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23029 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => Ellie | Hungry by Nature [comment_author_email] => imhungrybynature@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://hungrybynature.com [comment_author_IP] => 165.124.192.38 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 10:51:23 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-02 15:51:23 [comment_content] => Do-Rite is hands down my favorite donut shop in the city! I also work across the street from a location which can get a little dangerous at times. The cinnamon crunch old fashioned in killer and so is the nutella iced coffee #hearteyesemoji [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
5. Ellie | Hungry by Nature says:

   May 2, 2016

   Do-Rite is hands down my favorite donut shop in the city! I also work across the street from a location which can get a little dangerous at times. The cinnamon crunch old fashioned in killer and so is the nutella iced coffee #hearteyesemoji

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2016-05-02 17:51:54WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23031 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => taranoland [comment_author_email] => tarken@shaw.ca [comment_author_url] => http://gravatar.com/taranoland [comment_author_IP] => 68.146.88.38 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 12:51:54 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-02 17:51:54 [comment_content] => With that many delicious donut haunts I would be in continuous rotation of all of these places!! Great post!! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
6. taranoland says:

   May 2, 2016

   With that many delicious donut haunts I would be in continuous rotation of all of these places!! Great post!!

   Reply
2016-05-02 22:54:06WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23038 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => AmberLynn Pappas [comment_author_email] => pappasalt@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://Onegirlbreathing.com [comment_author_IP] => 174.106.20.35 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 17:54:06 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-02 22:54:06 [comment_content] => Come to Carolina Beach for Wake N Bake donuts. Honestly, I can't imagine anything better than their creations. But a lot of those look great too! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0.1; SCH-R970 Build/LRX22C) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.89 Mobile Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
7. AmberLynn Pappas says:

   May 2, 2016

   Come to Carolina Beach for Wake N Bake donuts. Honestly, I can’t imagine anything better than their creations. But a lot of those look great too!

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2016-05-03 02:37:34WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23042 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => Shannon [comment_author_email] => smwhelchel@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://thatgirlshannon.com [comment_author_IP] => 75.25.0.143 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 21:37:34 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-03 02:37:34 [comment_content] => Oh my gosh! I want to be your assistant! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/601.5.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1 Safari/601.5.17 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
8. Shannon says:

   May 2, 2016

   Oh my gosh! I want to be your assistant!

   Reply
2016-05-03 03:10:23WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23043 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => Gaby Dalkin [comment_author_email] => whatsgabycooking@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://whatsgabycooking.com [comment_author_IP] => 97.94.184.106 [comment_date] => 2016-05-02 22:10:23 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-03 03:10:23 [comment_content] => Drooling. I'll take one of each please! The outside of Doughnut Vault is gorgeous! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.86 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
9. Gaby Dalkin says:

   May 2, 2016

   Drooling. I’ll take one of each please! The outside of Doughnut Vault is gorgeous!

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2016-05-03 13:39:23WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23047 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => sweetphi [comment_author_email] => sweetphiblog@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://sweetphi.wordpress.com [comment_author_IP] => 74.62.82.186 [comment_date] => 2016-05-03 08:39:23 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-03 13:39:23 [comment_content] => GAH - absolutely LOVE this!! You know Chicago is my home city and I have SO much love for it! But things change so much so I'm always looking for the cool new spots! And donuts- omg they're one of my fave things ever. Love this post and cannot wait to check out these places! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.108 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
10. sweetphi says:

    May 3, 2016

    GAH – absolutely LOVE this!! You know Chicago is my home city and I have SO much love for it! But things change so much so I’m always looking for the cool new spots! And donuts- omg they’re one of my fave things ever. Love this post and cannot wait to check out these places!

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2016-05-05 11:04:29WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23068 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => Jess Larson | playswellwithbutter.com [comment_author_email] => jesreilly@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://playswellwithbutter.wordpress.com [comment_author_IP] => 75.73.8.93 [comment_date] => 2016-05-05 06:04:29 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-05 11:04:29 [comment_content] => love this comprehensive guide, monique, & the photography is stunning per usual. totally planning my next trip to chicago based around some of these spots (ummm nutella pocket? i'm not exactly sure what that is but i'm entirely sure i need it in my life) [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
11. Jess Larson | playswellwithbutter.com says:

    May 5, 2016

    love this comprehensive guide, monique, & the photography is stunning per usual. totally planning my next trip to chicago based around some of these spots (ummm nutella pocket? i’m not exactly sure what that is but i’m entirely sure i need it in my life)

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2016-05-06 05:05:04WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 23095 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => superfitbabe [comment_author_email] => misscassietran@gmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://superfitbabe.wordpress.com/ [comment_author_IP] => 75.82.184.149 [comment_date] => 2016-05-06 00:05:04 [comment_date_gmt] => 2016-05-06 05:05:04 [comment_content] => The gingerbread stack donuts literally just cracked me XD I HAVE to find a gingerbread donut recipe now! You have to check out NYC and San Francisco for a lot of awesome donut places! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
12. superfitbabe says:

    May 6, 2016

    The gingerbread stack donuts literally just cracked me XD I HAVE to find a gingerbread donut recipe now! You have to check out NYC and San Francisco for a lot of awesome donut places!

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2017-01-05 06:23:29WP_Comment Object ( [comment_ID] => 42771 [comment_post_ID] => 15695 [comment_author] => Evie [comment_author_email] => huang_evie89@hotmail.com [comment_author_url] => http://eeevieee.blogspot.com [comment_author_IP] => 45.48.248.53 [comment_date] => 2017-01-05 00:23:29 [comment_date_gmt] => 2017-01-05 06:23:29 [comment_content] => 100% LOVE that you think Firecakes is the best one of the batch! It's my favorite as well! I lived in Chicago for the last 4 years and basically lived off of all the donut places you mentioned above. I'm really a huge fan of Chicago donuts. After moving to LA for the last half a year, LA donuts just doesn't quite compare....I even had my sister bring me back Firecakes over Christmas! [comment_karma] => 0 [comment_approved] => 1 [comment_agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0 [comment_type] => comment [comment_parent] => 0 [user_id] => 0 [children:protected] => Array ( ) [populated_children:protected] => 1 [post_fields:protected] => Array ( [0] => post_author [1] => post_date [2] => post_date_gmt [3] => post_content [4] => post_title [5] => post_excerpt [6] => post_status [7] => comment_status [8] => ping_status [9] => post_name [10] => to_ping [11] => pinged [12] => post_modified [13] => post_modified_gmt [14] => post_content_filtered [15] => post_parent [16] => guid [17] => menu_order [18] => post_type [19] => post_mime_type [20] => comment_count ) )
13. Evie says:

    January 5, 2017

    100% LOVE that you think Firecakes is the best one of the batch! It’s my favorite as well! I lived in Chicago for the last 4 years and basically lived off of all the donut places you mentioned above. I’m really a huge fan of Chicago donuts. After moving to LA for the last half a year, LA donuts just doesn’t quite compare….I even had my sister bring me back Firecakes over Christmas!

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