If a Muffin and a Doughnut Fell in Love, This Would Be Their Baby

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Picture your ideal doughnut. Or actually, don’t. Picture my ideal doughnut. It’s a cake version, dense but not too dense. There is a clear delineation between the almost crunchy crust and the tender, lightly-spiced interior. It’s tossed in cinnamon sugar, so it’s sweet but not overpowered by some gloopy glaze.

That perfectly describes the Dirt Bomb from Bantam Bread in Bantam, Connecticut, except—plot twist!—my ideal doughnut is actually shaped like a muffin. I don’t know why exactly, but I do know that means there’s plenty of the moist nutmeg-flecked insides to go around. This is the breakfast I look forward to every time I visit my parents, the treat I share with friends when they come too, the thing those same friends ask for on return visits.

It’s just one of the many wonderful offerings at Bantam Bread, which has been making excellent breads since before it became very cool to make excellent breads (try the sunflower-flax!). And though I really hope you’ll make a trip, if you can’t, I have good news: They shared their recipe with us, which means that my ideal doughnut-ish thing can now be your ideal doughnut-ish thing, no matter where you live.

Go there: Bantam Bread

Originally Appeared on Bon Appétit