The Judges' Best Doughnut Recipes

The judges on Cooking Channel's Donut Showdown make a living deciding what makes the best doughnuts around, so you can imagine how good their own doughnut recipes would be.

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Jeff Mahin's Buttermilk Old-Fashioned Doughnut

With its trademark cracked texture and its flavors of bittersweet dark chocolate and mace, this old-fashioned spiced doughnut is heavenly for the grown-up palate.

Get the Recipe: Buttermilk Old-Fashioned Doughnut

Maggie McKeown's Grilled Strawberry Shortcake Doughnut

Almost a trifle, almost an ice cream sandwich, this cool cream-centered doughnut sports fresh strawberries and a homemade vanilla-lime syrup.

Get the Recipe: Grilled Strawberry Shortcake Doughnut

Eden Grinshpan's Pistachio-Dusted Rose-Glazed Yeast Doughnuts

With a lemon-orange dough, rosewater glaze and ground-pistachio topping, these yeast doughnuts dazzle with bursts of flavor and a texture that is simultaneously creamy and crunchy.

Get the Recipe: Pistachio-Dusted Rose-Glazed Yeast Doughnuts

David Rocco's Italian Nutella-Filled Bomboloni

The proof is in the hazelnut spread for David Rocco's simple lemon sugar bomboloni filled with generous dollops of Nutella.

Get the Recipe: David Rocco's Italian Nutella-Filled Bomboloni

Duff Goldman's Blueberry Greek Old-Fashioned Doughnuts

Go for a vintage look with these blueberry yogurt doughnuts, topped with a simple, sweet lemon glaze, that display a wide-ringed shape and an old-fashioned cracked surface.

Get the Recipe: Blueberry Greek Old-Fashioned Doughnut

Elizabeth Falkner's Kale Doughnuts

This doughnut runs the gamut of superfoods, from its browned butter-kale cake to its maple cream glaze, all topped with chopped pecans, bacon bits and kale leaves.

Get the Recipe: Kale Doughnuts