Donut revolution

On most days, Andrew Linton wakes up well before 4 a.m. to get to Lucky Morning Donuts (Map it!). His shift kicks into high gear between 5 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., when everyone from construction workers to unlucky gamblers from L’auberge come in to have a sweet treat.

Like a few other donut places in Baton Rouge, Linton offers the traditional glazed and chocolate-covered donuts. However, he has branched out into new territory with flavors like peanut butter, Mardi Gras king cake, maple and bacon and strawberry-glazed donuts. Those flavors were based on customer requests, and Lucky Morning Donuts isn’t the only shop in town expanding its donut offerings.

Fleur de Lis Donuts’ (Map it!) owner Suzie Boucher didn’t want to have the same old donuts. “It amazes me why anyone would just want to eat a glazed donut when you have so many options that you could put on top of it,” Boucher says. Some of the stores flavors include a peanut butter twist topped with chocolate icing and a key lime donut.

Tiger Deauxnuts (Map it!) prides itself on gourmet treats and features a rotating cast of donut flavors including apple pie, vanilla jalapeno, orange cranberry-oatmeal, s’mores, and others. The store also has a permanent selection of maple and bacon, Bananas Foster, strawberry cream cheese and chocolate peanut butter donuts.

Even longstanding favorite Thee Heavenly Donut is livening up its menu with a range of kolaches, such as the boudin and jalapeńo pepper-jack smoked sausage filled dough.

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